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Month: October 2024

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 279

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 279. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

October 28, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Planning complex Time Machine backups for efficiency

Understand how TM backs up and how snapshots work to minimise the size of local snapshots and backups, and the time they take. How to ensure files in iCloud Drive are backed up properly.

October 28, 2024 Macs, Technology

Painting Don Quixote: Decline and fall

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Paintings continue with three sketches by Honoré Daumier, and set pieces by Hispaleto, telling the misadventures of Cervantes’ Don Quixote.

October 27, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Writing Tools

What does the new Writing Tools feature in Sequoia 15.1 offer? Here are examples of its different types of summary, and a comparison with other types of AI.

October 27, 2024 Macs, Technology

Painting Don Quixote: Arise the knight

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Enormously popular across Europe, Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ led to some fine narrative paintings, but why so few even in the 19th century?

October 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 279

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

October 26, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac firmware

From the Macintosh ROM of Classic days, to Open Firmware in Power Macs, and on to (U)EFI with Intel, and ending up with LLB and iBoot in Apple silicon Macs.

October 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

Interiors by design: The Dutch Golden Age

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Examples of interiors by Gerard ter Borch, who liked open-ended narrative, Gabriël Metsu, Pieter de Hooch, and Jan Vermeer.

October 25, 2024 General, Life, Painting

macOS Sequoia 15.1 next week

Sequoia 15.1 is imminent, and comes with Writing Tools. Most other AI features wait for 15.2, now in beta, and expected in early December. Don’t underestimate Writing Tools, though.

October 25, 2024 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: 10 Cattle

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They drew carts and ploughs, in preference to horses where power rather than speed was needed. Also for milk, beef and their hides processed into leather.

October 24, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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