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Month: June 2024

Do your Macs a favour by getting a UPS

Please protect your Macs from mains voltage surges and sudden loss of power using a UPS. Here’s how to select and use one.

June 14, 2024 Macs, Technology

A to Z of Landscapes: Rivers

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Rivers, rather than their banks, have been an unusual theme in landscape painting. Examples from Daubigny’s series in northern France, the specialist Frits Thaulow, and many others.

June 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

What’s going on with AI in Sequoia?

How we have gone from spell-checking, through optical character recognition, to Sequoia’s new Writing Tools that can proofread and summarise text.

June 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

Sea of Mists: Pupils, Peder Balke

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A Norwegian who became a pupil of JC Dahl in Dresden, and painting nocturnes of Nordic ports, and awe-inspiring rocky coasts and mountains.

June 12, 2024 General, Life, Painting

SilentKnight 2.9 and Skint 1.07 updates restore auto-update

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These fix auto-updates, and extend SilentKnight’s Help to cover Apple silicon security. Compatible with Sequoia.

June 12, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 137 Helmet

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The helmets of Minerva, Bellona, Mars, Perseus, Achilles, Aeneas, the Knights of the Round Table, and Joan of Arc.

June 11, 2024 General, Life, Painting

First details of macOS 15 Sequoia

Which Macs will run Sequoia, and which are stuck on older macOS? Are there any new emoji, and what about ChatGPT?

June 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 23 Arethusa, Lyncus and the magpies

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How Arethusa was turned into a sacred stream, why King Lyncus was turned into a lynx, and what the Pierides were transformed into.

June 10, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 259

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 259. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Thinly […]

June 10, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Multitasking, parallel processing, and concurrency in Swift

From running multitasking on a single CPU, MultiFinder and cooperative multitasking, massively parallel systems using Transputers, to building concurrency into the Swift language.

June 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

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