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Month: November 2023

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 228

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 228. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First […]

November 6, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

How can you check the integrity of Time Machine backups in Sonoma?

APFS checks file system metadata, not file data. Consistency Scan has gone missing, verifying checksums doesn’t appear to verify data, and Verify Integrity seems to do something altogether different.

November 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of twilight

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From Rembrandt to the First World War, through specialists including Atkinson Grimshaw, Eugène Jansson, Schikaneder, and Le Sidaner.

November 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Backup simplicity

The most frequent error written to the log during my backups concerns a rogue RTFD that went recursive on me 4 years ago, and has come back to haunt me.

November 5, 2023 Macs, Technology

The 100th anniversary of Reginald Frampton’s death: A late Pre-Raphaelite

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Trained in London, Italy and France, he combined a Pre-Raphaelite style from Burne-Jones with Symbolism of Puvis de Chavannes.

November 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 228

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: First person seed […]

November 4, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Are Finder Tags useful metadata?

The most accessible of any metadata in the Finder and apps, Finder tags can be ideal for classifying files and folders into no more than 7 categories. Here’s how they work.

November 4, 2023 Macs, Technology

Painting on the edge: Edge hierarchies

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From its origin in portraiture, through to experiments by Renoir, and many oil paintings by Anders Zorn, control over edges can be highly effective.

November 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Metamer 1.4 adds autosave and more

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Fixes one bug, and adds two new features. Can now autosave, to help you make workflows quicker and more reliable.

November 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

M3 Macs: there’s more to performance than counting cores

A look at some of the factors determining the performance of new M3 chips compared to the M1 and M2 versions, and how not to compare them.

November 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

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