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Month: May 2024

How secure is Secure Erase (EACAS)?

Could old images be retained on a device or your Mac after you had securely erased it using Erase Assistant?

May 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 133 Bagpipes

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Played for the Danse Macabre in the Middle Ages, a favourite of Hieronymus Bosch, and Joseph Stella in the early 20th century.

May 22, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How Help windows get lost on Intel Macs

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Help has been in steady decline since macOS 10.13. More recently, when you open a Help book on an Intel Mac it may get buried, but it doesn’t on M-series Macs. Why?

May 22, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 132 Aulos, pipe or flute

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The double pipe with reeds played by Marsyas in his doomed contest with Apollo, blown by the Sirens, and more.

May 21, 2024 General, Life, Painting

SwiftUI on macOS: Drag and drop, and more

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Implementing a basic drag-and-drop app for macOS using SwiftUI: the DropDelegate protocol, and working with NSItemProvider. With full source and notarized example.

May 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: Drag and drop, Source Code

Swift source code implementing drag and drop and more, to accompany the main article.

May 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 20 Perseus kills Medusa

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Perseus describes in his wedding speech how he beheaded Medusa, and how she came to have snakes in her hair.

May 20, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 256

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 256. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]

May 20, 2024 General

macOS Sonoma 14.5 is the best release this cycle

Although some are still experiencing the issue of new FileVault security keys, Sonoma 14.5 looks the best release yet, and fixes some troublesome bugs.

May 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

Rising fog in paintings 2

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Into the 20th century, fog became a popular compositional device. Examples from Monet, Pissarro, Vallotton, Hodler and others.

May 19, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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