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Year: 2020

Last Week on My Mac: Support, dependence, control

Apple seldom posts Support Notes to guide many users to solve problems, but prefers them to access Apple Support one at a time. Why this inefficiency?

November 1, 2020 Macs, Technology

On the road: Itinerants and travellers in paintings 1

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Bosch’s two wayfarers, Courbet’s Stone Breakers, and wonderful paintings by Brett, Troyon and Ford Madox Brown show those who lived on the road.

October 31, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 71

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: I don’t […]

October 31, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Finder Tags: commonplace metadata

Easy to access, well-supported in the Finder and elsewhere, Finder tags are powerful tools which rely on extended attributes to do their job. All you need to know about them.

October 31, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to MRT

Apple has pushed an update today to its malware removal tool MRT, bringing it to version 1.69.3, dated […]

October 30, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Evelyn De Morgan 2: The Cadence of Autumn

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Paintings from 1885 onwards, looking at women from Ovid’s ‘Heroides’, his ‘Metamorphoses’, women of Troy, and this unusual time series across the canvas.

October 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Code signatures: 2 How to check them

When macOS won’t let you open an app or other software because it warns that it’s (possibly) malware, here’s how to check the signatures.

October 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has pushed an update today to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

October 29, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Evelyn De Morgan 1: Night and Sleep

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One of the most prolific and accomplished narrative painters, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe and North America.

October 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Quarantine and the quarantine flag

Most quarantine flags in your Mac aren’t on apps but documents. Details of how they’re added, what info they contain, and what they do.

October 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

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