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Month: December 2024

Painting a suspicious death

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Hiding a Catholic priest during a Protestant purge, a young boy interrogated by Roundheads, an affluent woman defendant, and the body of a wife at the foot of the stairs.

December 27, 2024 General, Life, Painting

XProtect ascendant: macOS security in 2024

After setting a record of 29 updates through the year, XProtect’s Yara rules have grown from about 195 in 167 KB of text to 328 in 921 KB. Here are other details for the other XProtects, Gatekeeper and more.

December 27, 2024 Macs, Technology

Adorations: paintings for Boxing Day

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By William Blake, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Edward Burne-Jones and others, Edward Stott, Albin Egger-Lienz, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Kazimierz Sichulski.

December 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A brief history of Mac batteries

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1989 Mac Portable, lead-acid. 1991 PowerBook 140 & 170, NiCad. 1992 PowerBooks with NiMH (3 types). 1995 lithium ion. 2006 MacBook Pro, lithium polymer.

December 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

Nativities: paintings for Christmas

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By William Blake, Gérôme, Fritz von Uhde, Maurice Denis, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, and Joseph Stella. Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How your Intel Mac can use USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 drives at full speed

Did you think your Intel Mac doesn’t support the 20 Gb/s speed of USB 3.2 Gen 2×2? It can do, with a little extra hardware support, just as it will a USB4 SSD.

December 25, 2024 Macs, Technology

Those in need: paintings of Christmas Eve

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Soldiers on the front in the First World War, a young woman slaving as a seamstress, Dickens’ miserly Scrooge, and Polish ‘exiles’ in Siberia – those we should be thinking of this Christmas.

December 24, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solving Finder tag problems

Finder tags should sync in iCloud Drive, and should be found when you use Spotlight search for their tag labels. Here’s what to check when there are problems.

December 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1924: 3 Landscapes

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Paintings from the late careers of Félix Vallotton, Robert Bevan, Nikolai Astrup, George Bellows, Théo van Rysselberghe, Pierre Bonnard and Lovis Corinth.

December 23, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 287

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 287. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Comfort […]

December 23, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

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