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Month: January 2022

Apple has pushed an update to MRT

Apple has just pushed an update to its malware removal tool MRT, bringing it to version 1.86, dated […]

January 20, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Characters in Painted Stories: 0 Summary and contents

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Does analysis of literary plots offer anything to the understanding of visual narrative in painting? A journey through some of the best painted stories in quest of the answer.

January 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Why Time Machine backups can be interminably slow

Is it overhead from sandboxing, the file system, the throttling of I/O, or the limitations of the Efficiency cores? Is there anything a user can do?

January 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Art and Science: 5 Colour theory

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Colour theory from the ancient Greeks to Munsell, via several artists including Leonardo da Vinci and Phillip Otto Runge.

January 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Memory Lane: Grokking memory problems in Activity Monitor

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Activity Monitor’s Memory view is the perfect place to watch for memory problems, such as a leak. Demonstrated here in macOS 12.0.1 and 12.1.

January 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 42: The governor and the wooed

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When Sancho Panza is awarded the governorship of a local town and leaves the castle to assume office, the knight is left forlorn, and amenable to a young maidservant.

January 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Did someone forget their password? Getting access to a locked Mac

Maybe you’ve just forgotten the password, or perhaps the owner/user of the Mac is no longer able to enter it. How to restore access to different models.

January 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

Coming Genius: the short art of René Beeh 1

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Four years older than Egon Schiele, Beeh was brilliant and expected to become a major artist. A century ago he died young, victim of seasonal flu.

January 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 134

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 134. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Communion, […]

January 17, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

What does Safe Mode do to an M1 Mac?

According to macOS Help, safe mode stops some software from loading, and performs a check of the startup disk. Here’s a more detailed and accurate account of what it does.

January 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

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