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Month: April 2025

Discover appexes with AppexIndexer

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Explore the app extensions installed on your Mac, in a list of well over 400, including many in macOS, and those in 3rd party products.

April 10, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 4 Travels

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After he had closed his portrait studio in 1907, travelling with friends, more watercolour views of Venice, and a look at some of his sophisticated techniques.

April 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How disk images and VMs are more efficient

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How read-write disk images and those used in Apple silicon virtual machines use sparse file format to save space on disk.

April 9, 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 8, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 3 Venice

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A portrait with unusual references, many bravura watercolours of Venice and his travels through the Alps on the way, and a short visit to North Africa.

April 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Rise of the Appex: What are App Extensions?

With as many as 500 or more appexes in your Mac, these have become widely used and important. What they are, where they are, and how to control them.

April 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 65 The Cumaean Sibyl

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Aeneas’ ill-fated and brief affair with Queen Dido of Carthage, past the Cercopes who had been turned into monkeys, and on to the Sibyl to take him to visit his father in the underworld.

April 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 302

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 302. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Shortened […]

April 7, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

How robust are APFS clone and sparse files?

How do clone files and sparse files cope with being backed up and restored? Can they save space in iCloud Drive? Some of these answers may surprise.

April 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

All aboard: a century of painting railways 2

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With Frits Thaulow in Norway, van Gogh in Arles, the construction of what is now the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and what can happen a railway carriage.

April 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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