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Month: June 2019

Last Week on My Mac: More haste, less upgrade

SwiftUI, notarization, malware detection, and Time Machine for APFS: all look worryingly incomplete in Catalina. Are they a bit premature?

June 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

Goddesses: 1 Divine Feminine

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The Judaeo-Christian tradition lacks any goddess, unlike its predecessors in Mediterranean cultures. Is there an equivalent among its saints, or the Virgin Mary? An exploration in paintings.

June 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Why Catalina has got a read-only system volume

System integrity protection, SIP, is a primary defence for your Mac. Yet it has had several known vulnerabilities. That’s why it’s changing in Catalina.

June 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Calm meadows: the bicentenary of Henri Harpignies 1

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A late starter, his career spanned the whole of the last half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th. Wonderful landscapes.

June 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Getting the best out my apps’ auto-update system

Helpful info and advice for all those using recent versions of my more popular free apps and utilities, about security and auto-updates.

June 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Notarization made a bit simpler

You don’t have to add an Info.plist to a standalone Mach-O tool in order to sign it, or to get it notarized successfully. And more tips.

June 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple updates AirPort Base Station 802.11n firmware to 7.8.1

Apple has just released an update to bring AirPort Express and Extreme, and Time Capsule Base Stations, with […]

June 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch Mid 2015 battery recall

Apple has announced a battery recall programme for some MacBook Pro 15-inch models which were sold mainly between […]

June 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Misfit: Henri Fantin-Latour 2 Manet in his studio

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A group portrait which failed so badly that he cut it up after it was shown at the Salon, a portrait of Manet, and another group portrait which inspired Impressionists.

June 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

28 years after Unicode, we still can’t handle accents: PDF + macOS + URL = chaos

Open a PDF document, select a URL within it and Copy. Then paste it into a webpage for publication. Simple – but the URL then broke. Why?

June 20, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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