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Month: October 2024

A brief history of the Chooser and printer support

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From a desk accessory Choose Printer, to the Chooser, then Print Centre, Print & Fax, and Print & Scan, how printer support has changed.

October 12, 2024 Macs, Technology

Emily Carr’s paintings, Tombstones 1937-1945

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She continued to paint during the final years of her life, expressing her concern at deforestation. Here are some of her most radical works.

October 11, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How to keep up to date with SilentKnight without upgrading by mistake

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It’s easy to ensure that SilentKnight won’t inadvertently install an upgrade to Sequoia, but still updates the security data files you want. Here’s how.

October 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: 8 Cash and other crops

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Paintings of fields of buckwheat (not a cereal at all), sainfoin (ideal for horses), flax (oil paints and linen), and clover. And how the Dutch Golden Age changed its agriculture.

October 10, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A simple guide to how XProtect installs and updates in Sequoia

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You’ve just installed an update to XProtect in Sequoia, so why doesn’t it change the version number? How to fix this common problem.

October 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 165 Group portraits B

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More from Raphael, Reynolds, and the artist’s family of Frédéric Bazille, Lovis Corinth and others. All you need to know is who, where and when.

October 9, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Disk Images: Tools

Which are the best tools for the occasional user? For someone who creates disk images to distribute sofware? Or for hacking sparse bundles?

October 9, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

October 8, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 164 Group portraits A

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From Rembrandt to Velázquez, Goya, Courbet and Fantin-Latour, reading group portraits can be complicated and demanding.

October 8, 2024 General, Life, Painting

APFS incompatibilities and how to live with them

When do sparse files explode to full size, and how could you preserve them in transit? Can you copy clones or snapshots? How to preserve extended attributes?

October 8, 2024 Macs, Technology

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