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Month: October 2023

High: Himalaya

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Paintings of Kangchenjunga and Everest, and sundry peaks of the Himalaya, by Edward Lear, Marianne North and Nicholas Roerich.

October 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

What security updates does my macOS get?

Which versions of macOS get which types of security update, which have protection from XProtect Remediator, and can you still rely on Safari?

October 20, 2023 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the centenary of the death of Eleanor Norcross

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Trained under William Merritt Chase, and a friend of Puvis de Chavannes, she painted and collected in Paris for 40 years, and had a retrospective in the Louvre.

October 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

What you can do with lightweight VM Shared Folders, and what you can’t

How to run apps on the host, access iCloud Drive, and get faster file write performance in a macOS VM. And why Spotlight is limited, and the Force Quit dialog a bit odd.

October 19, 2023 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of Sir Godfrey Kneller

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Originally from Germany, he served as court painter to a succession of English kings. He painted hundreds of portraits, and a few earl narrative works.

October 18, 2023 General, Life, Painting

How Game Mode manages CPU and GPU

How does Game Mode give highest priority access to CPU and GPU? An investigation of the involvement of P and E cores, and the GPU brings some surprises.

October 18, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 80 Horse with wings

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Pegasus, and the confusion over whether Perseus ever rode him, a hippogriff from Orlando Furioso, and a black winged horse ridden by a valkyrie.

October 17, 2023 General, Life, Painting

What does Game Mode do?

Apple claims it gives a game highest priority CPU and GPU access, and reduces Bluetooth input and audio latencies too. Does it, though?

October 17, 2023 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the 500th anniversary of Luca Signorelli’s death

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Often overlooked, a Tuscan master of the Renaissance, whose large frescos in the cathedral of Orvieto show the events of the Apocalypse and Last Judgement.

October 16, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 225

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 225. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Stacks […]

October 16, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

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