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Month: August 2024

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 269

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 269. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Palmtop […]

August 19, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

How to install a Combo update of recent macOS?

Explanations of how macOS updates work, and their differences between minor updates for Catalina and Sonoma.

August 19, 2024 Macs, Technology

Heroines 12: The many faces of Medea

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Princess, sorceress, seductress, wife, mother, and vengeful filicide – which is the true face of Medea, and why shouldn’t you try to paint her?

August 18, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Lost Force Click

On my Magic Trackpad, Force Click vanished. As it had recently updated its firmware, it looked like that update had caused the problem, although that no longer makes sense. Does your Magic Trackpad have the same problem?

August 18, 2024 Macs, Technology

Heroines 11 & 13: Canace and Laodamia in secret

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A woman who became pregnant as a result of incest, whose only portrait is in the Vatican Museums, and another whose husband was first to be killed in the war against Troy, whose painting is near Nelson’s dockyard.

August 17, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 269

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

August 17, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A proposed new interface for SilentKnight 3

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After a batch of new MacBook Pros were delivered with SIP disabled: LockRattler (December 2016), EFIcienC then SilentKnight (July 2019), and here’s what version 3 should look like.

August 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: Paintings of life in the countryside

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An introduction to a new series tracing the history of the countryside in fine paintings. Explains why some English country lanes have so many twisting bends.

August 16, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How to tell if an app is notarized

Although macOS won’t tell, Apparency will, even down to launch constraints. Other alternatives, and how to check in the command line.

August 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

Edward Poynter’s classical stories: 2 from 1880

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Aesculapius, Psyche, the Esquiline Venus, views in Roman villas, Queen Sheba visiting King Solomon, storm nymphs, and a lascivious dance.

August 15, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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