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Month: August 2022

Knights in Shining Armour: in memoriam Edmund Blair Leighton 1

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Often considered a Pre-Raphaelite, with common themes, he was an academic outsider whose photo-real paintings are finely crafted fantasies.

August 31, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How can I bring my Mac up to date with firmware and system updates?

Keeping your Mac up to date is essential if it’s to benefit from latest security fixes and protection against malware. How to deal with problems.

August 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

Sunrise on Impressionism: 6 Adolphe-Félix Cals

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One of the five ‘fathers’ of Impressionist, his style became painterly in the 1860s and he exhibited at the Salon until 1870 and in four Impressionist Exhibitions.

August 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance

How macOS now has anti-malware scanners checking your Mac automatically many times each day for the most frequent malware.

August 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 13: As You Like It

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Full of memorable lines such as “All the world’s a stage” and songs like “It was a lover and his lass”, a favourite comedy and well painted.

August 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 166

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 166. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Real-time […]

August 29, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Are command tools getting out of their depth?

They now get signed, an Info.plist is embedded, they’re notarized by Apple, use the hardened runtime, maybe the App Sandbox, and request entitlements. So how do you check their version?

August 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings on fans

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As tried by Pissarro, Degas, Carl Larsson, Gauguin, Anders Zorn, Charles Conder, and Louis Welden Hawkins.

August 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Security updates are down again

Over the last three months, of the nine security updates to XProtect pushed by Apple, only one has been delivered and installed correctly through my Monterey Content Caching server

August 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of fans

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Paintings from Watteauto George Bellows showing this popular fashion accessory, sometimes used for surreptitious communication between lovers.

August 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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