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Month: January 2025

Interiors by Design: Pierre Bonnard 2, bathroom

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With Bonnard inside Marthe’s bathroom for some mirror play, exuberant decor, and her soaking in the tub.

January 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 290

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

January 11, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of the Mac mini

Introduced 20 years ago, it has just had its second major redesign and a huge boost in capability. Now used for cloud and colocation services, and widely as a server and desktop of choice.

January 11, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Pierre Bonnard 1, general

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From his first intimate interior with Marthe in 1898, a selection of the finest of Bonnard’s paintings of domestic interiors to 1946.

January 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

FileVault and volume encryption explained

How FileVault and APFS Encrypted are enabled and managed differently, and details of how they work internally. Concentrates on T2 and Apple silicon Macs, but also covers older Intel models.

January 10, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: Summary and contents

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Short summaries of each of the articles in this series looking at the reality of life and work in the country from 1500 to the early 20th century.

January 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Why use APFS?

Deciding which file system to use for hard disks can be difficult. Here are the advantages and disadvantages explained in detail, for HFS+ and APFS.

January 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the centenary of the death of George Bellows 2

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Hard manual labour and human shields in the First World War, before Tennis at Newport, Jack Dempsey boxing, and a final Summer Fantasy.

January 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Power Modes and Apple silicon CPUs

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How Apple silicon CPUs control core frequencies and power use when running in Low Power mode. Includes M4 Pro and M3 Pro data, and estimates of energy requirements.

January 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the centenary of the death of George Bellows 1

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Originally intending to be a pro sportsman, became one of the pioneers of the Ashcan School with his gritty scenes of ordinary people in New York.

January 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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