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Month: March 2025

What are app entitlements, and what do they do?

Whether they enable an App Store app to go beyond its sandbox, provide access to features that are privacy-protected, or give access to macOS features only permitted for approved apps, entitlements are important.

March 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Roman Landscapes: 2 Development

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Paintings of the Roman countryside by Michallon, Blechen, Camille Corot, Arnold Böcklin, and others following Valenciennes’ teaching.

March 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Giving a fsck

What disk checks are made in Safe mode? How are they different from those run during normal startup? If Disk Utility is to be our only APFS repair tool, shouldn’t have more and better features?

March 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Roman Landscapes: 1 Dawn

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Remarkable oil sketches made in the countryside around Rome that laid the foundation for training in landscape painting, and ultimately Impressionism.

March 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 300

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

March 22, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of installing Mac OS: Mac OS X and beyond

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From Installer packages and metapackages, to the first for Big Sur with its new boot volume group. RSRs and their demise, and when an upgrade is an update.

March 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: 8 The Oldest Profession

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Paintings from cities like London, Paris and Oslo, by Ford Madox Brown, Jean-Louis Forain, Félicien Rops, Christian Krohg, and others.

March 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

When you should use Safe Mode, and what it does

Claimed to block 3rd-party extensions and customisations from loading, check the startup disk, and to clear some system caches. When and why should you use it?

March 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Tiles

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Blue-on-white Delft tiles in paintings of Vermeer, and those in the 19th century who recreated period interiors, including Laura Alma-Tadema.

March 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

LogUI log browser build 31 has better filters

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This new build checks that it can get log extracts, and has a wider range of filters you can use to select which entries it fetches and displays.

March 20, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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