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Month: May 2025

Check your network backups and shares, as AFP is being removed

Are you prepared for the removal of support for AFP in a ‘future version of macOS’? Here’s what you need to know, and what you should consider doing.

May 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 210 Parrot B

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Parrots in still life paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, accompanying a Turkish page, in English summer, or passing Pierre Bonnard in Saint Tropez.

May 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What has Apple added in advance of macOS 16?

Pasteboard privacy protection, a Magnifier app, Vehicle Motion Cues, Braille Access, Accessibility Reader, Apple Diagnostics and many others coming to a macOS 16 next month.

May 14, 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 […]

May 13, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading Visual Art: 209 Parrot A

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Parrots as extras in myths, witnessing Eve taking the apple from the serpent, and as companions to a succession of beautiful women.

May 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How to tell the difference between copies, clone files, and hard links

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Distinguishing conventional copies, clone files, symlinks, hard links and Finder aliases can be confusing. Here’s how to tell them apart with using Terminal.

May 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS Sequoia 15.5?

The update to macOS Sequoia 15.5 is likely to be the last to include remaining enhancements and fixes […]

May 12, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.5, and 14.7.6, 13.7.6

Apple has just released the update to macOS Sequoia to bring it to version 15.5, and security updates […]

May 12, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Changing Paintings: 70 Romulus and the founding of Rome

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Romulus ploughs the boundary of the city of Rome, then defeats the Sabine king Tatius, marries his daughter, and is eventually taken to be the god Quirinus.

May 12, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 307

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 307. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Workshop […]

May 12, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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