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Month: December 2021

Saturday Mac riddles 130

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

December 18, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Vectors, Accelerate and poor performance on M1 Macs

Some apps and other code doesn’t appear to run faster on M1 chips, and some even runs more slowly. Could this be a result of it not using the best acceleration for vectors and matrices?

December 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1921: 2 Interiors and exteriors

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Fine paintings from 1921 by Pierre Bonnard, wildlife artist Bruno Liljefors, Colin Campbell Cooper, and others.

December 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

When you can’t restart an M1 Mac from an external disk

Assigning ownership to an external bootable disk doesn’t always work in Recovery mode on an M1 Mac. But there’s an easy workaround.

December 17, 2021 Macs, Technology

Using SilentKnight to download updates

For those who want macOS updates promptly, SilentKnight can be a help. But don’t use it to download and install an update.

December 17, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

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

December 16, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Art and Science: 1 Geometry and realism

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How an architect, two great masters of painting, and the author of an early textbook on painting applied geometric optics to change painting.

December 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Boot disk layout in macOS Monterey

In Monterey, these haven’t changed much since Big Sur. However, those small differences are significant, particularly on M1 Macs.

December 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

Landscape Composition: 16 Reflections

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From Dürer and Poussin to Cézanne and Hodler, reflections have been important in many landscape paintings.

December 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

silnite 6 is fully compatible with M1 Macs and Monterey

This popular command tool performs the same checks as its GUI sibling SilentKnight. Now full compatible with M1 Macs and Monterey, with extended reporting.

December 15, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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