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Month: February 2025

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 296

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 296. Here are my solutions to them. 1: No […]

February 24, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Gaining access to privacy-protected folders

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The difference between consent and intent, why an app adds itself to Settings, and when you should add it to Full Disk Access.

February 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings from Ukraine 2

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Paintings from the end of the 19th century into the 20th, by Pymonenko, Murashko, Malevich, Bohomazov, Boichuk, Ekster and others.

February 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The sinkhole under macOS

Permissions, privacy and security protections can conspire to prevent us from accessing our own files. They aren’t integrated, consistent or documented, and badly need improvement.

February 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings from Ukraine 1

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A sketchy history from Soshenko and Shevchenko in the early 19th century, to Kuznetsov and Pokhitonov at the end, with 3 famous expatriates.

February 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 296

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: No amateur […]

February 22, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of scripting the Mac

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Includes HyperTalk, UserTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, shell scripts, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts, from 1987 to the present.

February 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: 5 On strike

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From 1880 workers’ strikes brought violence and strife to industrial regions throughout Europe, in the struggle for rights and justice. Shown here in contemporary paintings.

February 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How external bootable disks work with Apple silicon Macs

Working with external bootable disks: how to create and add them, ownership and LocalPolicy, how that can be changed, and what happens with errors and failure.

February 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Carpets

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Although of ancient origin, it took 7 centuries for Europeans to use them to cover the floor. They can be exotic in chinoiserie, luxuriant, worn and threadbare, or vibrant.

February 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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