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Month: March 2025

macOS 15.3.2 Sequoia won’t install older macOS on Apple silicon Macs

Can you install macOS Sonoma on an external SSD for an Apple silicon Mac running Sequoia 15.3.2? So far this has defeated two of us on many attempts. With useful tips that should have brought success.

March 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Writing desks

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From a saint’s integrated office, through tables with quills and ink-pots, to beautifully crafted furniture for the home office.

March 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Controlling LaunchServices in macOS Sequoia

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The hidden command tool lsregister can be used to control LaunchServices and its registry, but there are now snags in most of its features, as explained here.

March 27, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 201 Dancing, ballet and erotic

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At the ballet with Degas,Sargent’s Spanish dancer, entertainment in North Africa, an Ionian dance, the Can-Can, Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils.

March 26, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How macOS Sequoia launches an app

Overview of how different subsystems work together during launching a notarized app, from LaunchServices to checking WritingTools and AI availability.

March 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has 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 […]

March 25, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading Visual Art: 200 Dancing, myth and folk

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A dance to the music of time, the hours, Muses, sirens, winged putti, faeries, maidens fearing death, mid-summer feasts and folk dancing.

March 25, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Better security means less recoverability

There’s extensive experience in recovering deleted files from hard disks, and results can be surprisingly good. Recovery from SSDs is more tricky, and secure ‘wiping’ ensures nothing can ever be recovered, making good backups essential.

March 25, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 63 The tragedy of Galatea

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Galatea falls in love with Acis, son of a river-god, but the Cyclops Polyphemus is in love with Galatea and is murderously jealous of Acis.

March 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 300

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 300. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

March 24, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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