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Month: December 2024

Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?

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How to connect a USB4 SSD to get better performance from an Intel Mac. Should you buy a Thunderbolt 4 hub, or a Thunderbolt 5 dock? Do any of these live ‘up to’ their claimed performance?

December 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

Painting poetry: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Significant paintings based on The Sleeping Beauty, Mariana and Mariana in the South, and Break, Break, Break.

December 22, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: School of Athens or Blinded Samson?

After months of promotion, Apple Intelligence has arrived for many. Yet at the same time important changes have been made in security, and not a word said about them. Intelligent or blind?

December 22, 2024 Macs, Technology

Painting poetry: John Keats

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Paintings based on Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, and La Belle Dame Sans Merci, mainly from the Pre-Raphaelites.

December 21, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 287

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

December 21, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of logs and Console

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Introduced with Mac OS X, logs became a good way to diagnose a Mac’s problems, using Console. Then in 2016 it all changed, and not for the benefit of administrators or users.

December 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Bedrooms

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One of the most private areas in a house or apartment, shown here by Degas, Maximilien Luce, Pierre Bonnard, Γ‰douard Vuillard, Eric Ravilious and others.

December 20, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How iCloud can be simpler than a server

iCloud is now used for key services including notarization checks. For XProtect updates, it should be quicker and simpler, so long as you mind the pinniped.

December 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1924: 2 Narrative and miscellaneous

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Paintings of the Trojan Horse by Lovis Corinth, Vuillard’s lover and her husband, sea eagles chasing an eider duck, and George Bellows’ boxing match.

December 19, 2024 General, Life, Painting

XProtect has changed again in macOS Sequoia 15.2

There are no changes for Sonoma and earlier macOS, and Sequoia 15.0-15.1.1 will also continue working as before. But 15.2 and later work differently, as explained here.

December 19, 2024 Macs, Technology

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