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Year: 2020

Last Year on My Mac: There must be a pony

Shipping the M1 Macs has been a milestone, although how you interpret that depends on whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.

December 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Nativity: Innovation

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Nine very different nativities, from the apocalyptic warnings of a martyr, through the Emperor Augustus, to Maurice Denis’ nativity in a contemporary French town.

December 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Give your Mac (imaginary) unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug

Disk Utility in Big Sur can turn a 1 TB external disk into 4.5 TB or more of imaginary containers. Sadly it’s just a bug, and here’s how to work around it.

December 26, 2020 Macs, Technology

Nativity: Invention

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Paintings from 1263 to 1504 show how the traditional Nativity developed. Examples by Duccio, Campin, Botticelli and Fra Bartolomeo.

December 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Christmas Mac riddles (79)

Here are this year’s Christmas riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: I […]

December 25, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

So Santa brought you an M1 Mac: here’s what you should know

A short introduction to some of the highlights and quirks of M1 Macs, from dealing with apps which don’t run properly, to entering Recovery Mode and dealing with disaster.

December 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1920: Landscapes 2

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Enchanted Norwegian birch woods, the Massachusetts coast, Catalina Island by night, Spanish mountains, and a picturesque French village.

December 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

It looks like the M1 SSD is faster than those in Intel Macs, but…

A new version of Stibium which performs series tests raises further questions about benchmarking SSDs on Intel and M1 Macs. And is an X5 worth the extra cost?

December 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

The Faerie Queene 19: Defeat and slavery

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Artegall and his iron servant Talus progress on his quest. They come across Amazons who, led by their queen, capture knights, put them in women’s clothes and force them to perform women’s work like spinning. This fate is in store for Artegall too.

December 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Can a Content Caching Server compensate for lost standalone updates?

Can you use Big Sur’s Content Caching Server to save and retain updates which can substitute for ‘delta’ and Combo standalone update packages?

December 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

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