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Month: April 2025

Last Week on My Mac: Sequoia Spring

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One of the largest updates to macOS, with the most ever vulnerabilities fixed, Sequoia 15.4 also brings a lot of new components, particularly Private Frameworks.

April 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

All aboard: a century of painting railways 1

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Taking the train with Turner, William Powell Frith, Manet, and Claude Monet, who became something of a railway buff in the 1870s.

April 5, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 302

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

April 5, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of disk images on the Mac

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From their use to replicate floppy disks in manufacture, to their key roles in macOS, for distribution of software, and on network servers to contain backups. Unglamorous but essential.

April 5, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Dressing table

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Originally the toilet, this is where ladies prepared themselves for the day. Paintings from Hogarth. Degas, Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard and others.

April 4, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Apple silicon VMs struggle to update to Sequoia 15.4

Is it possible to update a VM running macOS Sequoia to version 15.4? Three attempts, three failures. And why are all those file creation dates wrong?

April 4, 2025 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 2 London

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Spanish dancers, Madame X and scandal, Monet painting at Giverny, loose oil sketches, and a husband who became a surrogate dog.

April 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

A primer on predicates for LogUI

How to construct and use filter predicates to refine the log entries shown in LogUI or most other log browsers, and in the log command tool.

April 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 1 Pupil

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Early paintings from his time as a student in Paris, a series painted when he was on Capri in 1878, a portrait of his teacher, and exotic smoke.

April 2, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Can APFS special files save storage space?

Deleting clone files saves no space, but converting copies into clones could free up plenty of storage. Sparse files can also be highly efficient, and squeeze 285 GB into just 16.5 GB.

April 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

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