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Month: June 2021

Saturday Mac riddles 102

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Come across and […]

June 5, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: what makes a volume bootable?

One command, bless, used to do it all, copying boot.efi to the right place and declaring the volume bootable in its header. Where are we with Big Sur and M1 Macs?

June 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Still Life History: 4 Rays, copper, and scythes in the 18th century

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With the Rococo in full swing, still life painting was left in the hands of the popular eccentric Chardin, and the brilliant Anne Vallayer-Coster.

June 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to make macOS betas and upgrades safer

Whether it’s a beta of macOS 12, 11.5, or even a release upgrade, installing it is a risk. Here’s how to mitigate disaster by rolling back to a previous release.

June 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Albert Bierstadt in the Rockies 2

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He continued to paint large awe-inspiring views of America even when touring Europe. But after his death, his work almost became extinct like the buffalo.

June 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Launching Recovery on an M1 Mac: Booting and control in 11.4

How your M1 Mac starts up in the Recovery mode of your choice, or when it decides you need to take a trip to Recovery to fix an issue.

June 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has finally posted standalone updaters for Catalina and Mojave Security Updates

Apple has today posted standalone updaters for its Security Updates released for Catalina and Mojave over a week […]

June 2, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Painting Within Tent: Albert Bierstadt in the Rockies 1

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Trained in Düsseldorf, he undertook two major trips to the Rocky Mountains, in 1859 and 1863, and painted awe-inspiring views of the peaks and valleys.

June 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Booting an M1 Mac: external disks and local boot policy in macOS 11.4

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macOS 11.4 brought major changes to the way M1 Macs handle external bootable disks. This explains how this works during the boot process.

June 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 12: A quest for a princess

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The tragic events which drove the young nobleman Cardenio are seen in new light when they meet Dorotea, who becomes an exotic princess with a quest for Don Quixote.

June 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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