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Month: February 2021

Saturday Mac riddles 86

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Julian, Gregorian […]

February 13, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Spotlight on search: Four different Spotlights

Global in the menu bar, Local in the Finder, Core in-app, and Third-party for other developers. Spotlight is a chimera, and each finds different items.

February 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Naval surgeon and artist, John Linton Palmer

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Sketches and watercolour paintings of the Pacific Coast of the Americas, from Vancouver Island to Tierra del Fuego.

February 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Diagnosing a Spotlight bug in Big Sur: failure to index RTF content

Why can’t my Macs find text in Rich Text files? This explains how to diagnose the cause – which here is a bug in Big Sur’s Spotlight importer for RTF.

February 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

In Memoriam William Blake Richmond, an Aesthetic

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Named after the artist and poet, he was precious, and went on to be a very successful portraitist. Here some of his narrative and other works.

February 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Big Sur, Software Update, Content Caching Server and M1 Macs

Although updating each M1 Mac requires 1 GB of direct download from Apple, there are great economies in running your own Content Caching Server. And why Apple doesn’t want to offer standalone Big Sur updates.

February 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

The Faerie Queene 25: Pastorella captured and the Beast subdued

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Coridon is proven to be cowardly, when Sir Calidore saves Pastorella from a tiger. She’s taken captive by brigands, and her true identity revealed.

February 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs

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Making an external bootable SSD for an M1 Mac has proved tricky. Has this changed in macOS 11.2? If you’ve already got 11.1 running on one, how do you update it to 11.2?

February 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

What’s changed in Big Sur 11.2.1?

The surprise minor update to macOS 11.2.1 is smaller in size than the 11.2 update: around 2.4 GB […]

February 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has released another update to Big Sur: 11.2.1, and updates to 10.15 and 10.14

Apple has released a further update to Big Sur, aimed primarily at some MacBook Pro 2016 and 2017 […]

February 9, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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