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Month: January 2024

Why am I getting warning emails about iCloud?

Do you keep getting emails from Apple concerning your iCloud account, or problems with its storage? Here’s how to check everything is in order.

January 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 2 The flood and the Python

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Jupiter wipes out unworthy humans in a flood. One pious couple survive, and go on to re-create humanity transformed from stones. This leaves the monstrous Python to be killed by Apollo.

January 15, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 238

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 238. Here are my solutions to them. 1: They […]

January 15, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed

Apple’s M2 chip uses a newer version of the CPU core instruction set. This increases its capability, thus how well it will cope with future apps and macOS, compared with the M1.

January 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

Shipwreck paintings: 2 from 1850

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From Delacroix’s final Shipwreck off a Coast, through Aivazovsky’s Ninth Wave, to Waterhouse’s painting of The Tempest.

January 14, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: magic updates

The keyboard firmware update that flew in under the radar, and one of many fixes in Sonoma 14.2 tackle different Bluetooth vulnerabilities. How do they affect you?

January 14, 2024 Macs, Technology

Shipwreck paintings: 1 to 1850

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From Tintoretto in the 1560s, through the canonical Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, to Delacroix’s Shipwreck of the Don Juan.

January 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 238

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: They could […]

January 13, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

How M1 Macs may lag behind

M1 CPUs support ARMv8.5A, which doesn’t support the new bfloat16 floating-point format now widely used in AI. That’s likely to put them at a disadvantage.

January 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

Map or painting?

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Looking at paintings that are maps, and maps that are paintings, including Leonardo da Vinci’s, and the first map of Australia from 1547.

January 12, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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