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Month: May 2022

Colour Notes 7: Colourspaces and rendering

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An introduction to colourspaces, gamuts, and how images are rendered in colour, so that what you see on your display or in a print looks right.

May 31, 2022 Macs, Painting, Technology

Power on Tap: Dynamic control of P cores in M1 chips

Both P and E cores are run at different frequencies according to the load on M1 chips. This explores how macOS manages their frequencies and why.

May 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote: Book 2 summary and contents 3

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Walkover success in another duel, but Don Quixote changes his mind and heads for Barcelona. After adventures there on a galley, he’s finally defeated on the beach, and obliged to return home.

May 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 153

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 153. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Chinese […]

May 30, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Why Monterey’s Finder Find memory leak may not be fixed

Will Monterey 12.5 fix the memory leak in the Find feature in the Finder? That looks increasingly unlikely, and may influence your decision as to whether to upgrade.

May 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of painters painting 2: Louis Béroud and the missing Mona Lisa

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On the morning of 22 August 1911, he arrived to paint the Mona Lisa, but it had vanished from the wall of the Louvre. Who had stolen it?

May 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Watch the ANE

Trying macOS betas, support for Catalina, is the M1 dead, and what does the ANE do all day? What should come from WWDC this year.

May 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of painters painting 1: John Singer Sargent

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Sargent’s paintings of Claude Monet and other artists painting, mostly in front of the motif, form a unique record of painters and their techniques.

May 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 153

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

May 28, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Non-lossy compression

Explains how Huffman code works, how it’s used for compressed files, and how other techniques including LZ, LZW and LZFSE differ.

May 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

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