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Month: April 2025

Why some apps launch very slowly

Opening Pages can take several seconds, and other apps can hang around for 30 seconds before they’re ready to use. Is it XProtect, online certificate checks, or what?

April 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 67 Circe and her swine

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Ulysses visits Circe’s island, where his crew are turned into swine. When she tries to do the same with him, he refuses. They marry and spend a year together.

April 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 304

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 304. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Glance […]

April 21, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

The perils of virtualisation on M4 Macs

In a VM hosted on an M4, upgrading 14.7.5 to 15.4.1 took an 8.7 GB download and worked. From 15.1 to 15.4.1 took over 15 GB and failed with a kernel panic.

April 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Easter Paintings: 3 The Resurrection

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The harrowing of Hell, and the Resurrection in the paintings of William Blake, Jan Brueghel the Elder, William Holman Hunt, and others.

April 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: A lost cause code

Intel Macs tell you why they last shut down, in the ‘shutdown cause code’ written to the log by their System Management Controller. What do Apple silicon Macs do?

April 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

Easter Paintings: 2 The Crucifixion

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From the way of the cross, ascending Calvary, to the Crucifixion, descent from the cross, pietà, and entombment.

April 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 304

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

April 19, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of text on the Mac

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From early code pages based on language-specific variants of Extended ASCII, through 2-byte support in WorldScript II, to Unicode and the annual emoji update.

April 19, 2025 Macs, Technology

Easter Paintings: 1 The Passion

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From Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, through the Last Supper, to his trials and crowning with thorns.

April 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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