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Month: May 2022

Cormorant 1.4: getting more from Apple Archive

Now has three presets to control speed and energy consumption of compression and decompression, together with complete custom control.

May 12, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Sheer Delight 4: Gone with the wind

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What is that princess doing dressed for a pageant, and what is happening to her swatch of carmine fabric? How billows express motion.

May 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Inside Apple Archive: performance and control

How to work out how many threads and which cores are needed to achieve a compression rate up to 1.7 GB/s, and how to estimate power and energy.

May 11, 2022 Macs, Technology

Colour Notes 4: Under no illusions

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A journey through some visual illusions show how a simple physical concept of human colour vision doesn’t work. It’s all about perception, not physics.

May 10, 2022 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Inside Apple Archive: more than a compression format

Provided in Archive Utility and three command tools, its LZFSE compression even supports APFS special files like clones and sparse files.

May 10, 2022 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 57: Don Quixote’s death

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Once back in his village, Don Quixote explained about his defeat and promise to stay at home for a year. Over a period of ten days, he later declined and died.

May 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 150

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 150. Here are my solutions to them. 1: One […]

May 9, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

What’s the fastest way to transfer files with M1 Macs?

AirDrop is quick, convenient and as slow as you’ll get. Ethernet all too often runs at only 1 Gb/s. Here are the fastest solutions involving M1 models.

May 9, 2022 Macs, Technology

The Meiji Renaissance: Antonio Fontanesi and Japanese painting 2

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Kuroda Seiki moved to Paris in 1884 to study law. Two years later, he changed to painting, and returned to Japan to transform art there.

May 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Deleting the SSV to free space

The industry has cut out the middleman and destroyed the support pyramid, in which trained staff in dealers addressed minor issues.

May 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

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