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Month: April 2025

Saturday Mac riddles 305

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

April 26, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of code signing on Macs

From its introduction in Leopard in 2006, some were predicting no good would come of it. From 2012 it became important with Gatekeeper, then came notarization in 2018.

April 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: 11 Crowds and traffic

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Crowds in the cities of Paris, Berlin with its new electric trams, and the rush hour in New York City. People, horse cabs, trams and early cars everywhere.

April 25, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What is a bundle, and how are frameworks different?

The differences between bundles and packages, the differences between app and framework bundles. What you can find inside them, and where to look.

April 25, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Potted plants

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Keeping the aspidistra flying in the homes of the respectable middle classes, in paintings from Carl Larsson to Paul Signac and Harriet Backer.

April 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How disk images can become sparse files

Read-write and VM disk images are created and maintained differently, but they can both be APFS sparse files. Explanation of their creation and maintenance.

April 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 204 Triptychs B

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More secular stories from Belgian coal mines, the Kalevala, Nabi public gardens, family life, to the 12 panels of the Ghent Altarpiece and Japanese woodblock prints.

April 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

An overview of app extensions and plugins in macOS Sequoia

Detailed listings of which appex and plugin types are managed by System Settings, PlugInKit, and beyond. Even the terms used aren’t consistent.

April 23, 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 […]

April 22, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading Visual Art: 203 Triptychs A

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Three panels, hinged together, first for an altarpiece, later for secular narratives. Examples from 1420, through those of Bosch, to the Eve of St Agnes by Arthur Hughes.

April 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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