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Month: July 2019

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 5

How many of these answers did you get?

July 29, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Taccy 1.1 fixes a crashing bug and adds several new features

An unexpected behaviour in the codesign command could cause the app to crash when examining certain app. Now fixed, plus several new features.

July 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Words in Paintings 2: References and explanations

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It’s sometimes hard to read a painting without understanding an inscription. Masaccio, Rossetti, Moreau, Corinth and Botticelli gives us some clues.

July 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Metadata and iCloud

Apple’s attitude to document metadata remains ambivalent. But macOS does offer good support for extended attributes to pass through iCloud, if you know how to access it.

July 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Words in Paintings 1: Part of the story

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Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s Feast, Tintoretto, William Blake, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s painting of Sappho each rely on words.

July 27, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 5

Three more riddles about Macs, computing and numbers to entertain you over the weekend.

July 27, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

What makes macOS updates more complex: T2 firmware updates

Why couldn’t you install Security Update 2019-004 on your T2-free Mac, when the problem was in its T2 firmware update?

July 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

The first Italian Master in oil: Antonello da Messina 1

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Vasari claimed that he was trained by Jan van Eyck, but he probably learnt under an Italian artist in Milan before becoming the first Master in oils.

July 26, 2019 General, Life, Painting

How do the Finder, Terminal and Spotlight handle extended attribute flags?

Does using xattr flags disrupt Spotlight indexing, and how are those flags respected using different methods of copying a file?

July 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Updating Mojave to 10.14.6 is probably safe, as are Sierra and High Sierra Security Updates

The latest news on last week’s macOS updates is that the Mojave update to 10.14.6 does appear ‘safe’, […]

July 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

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