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Month: July 2025

Changing Paintings: Summary and contents parts 55-74

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From the foundation of Troy, the start of the war with the Judgement of Paris, the death of Achilles, the sack of Troy, and Aeneas journey to found the precursor to Rome, and on to the age of Augustus.

July 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What happened to XProtect this week?

A slew of new rules to detect novel malware, four changes to behavioural detection. This has been an unusual week for security data updates.

July 11, 2025 Macs, Technology

Tahoe b3 and Xcode 26 b3 can screw app icons

Want to build in Xcode 26 b3 on macOS 26 b3? You may have problems with Icon Composer icons, which may not work on previous versions of macOS. Here’s a workaround.

July 10, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Scullery and utility room

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Maids toiling at food preparation and washing clothes in the sculleries and utility rooms in the basement. Among them is Vermeer’s Milkmaid, and some of Degas’ working women.

July 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What does RunningBoard do? 1 App launching

Introduced in Catalina, RunningBoard now monitors the life cycle of apps, and may manage resources such as memory. Here it’s helping to launch an app through LaunchServices.

July 10, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 219 Police

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Paintings of police from lictors in ancient Rome, through ‘Peelers’ in London, to those regulating prostitution and trying to control striking workers.

July 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Cryptexes, AI and Creedence Clearwater Revival

Apple silicon Macs (and iPhones and iPads) with AI enabled load 23 cryptexes to support that. This explains how that works, and how you might see an odd volume named Creedence….

July 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released major updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5304, […]

July 8, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

In memoriam Robert Bevan, British landscape painter: 1915-1925

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Hay carts and the last working horses in central London, houses of the rich in St John’s Wood, country views from East Devon during summer visits.

July 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

More updates for Tahoe: Spotlight (Metamer, Spotcord), text obfuscation (Dystextia) and storage testing (Stibium)

Productivity improvements with metadata editing and cataloguing, fun with Unicode lookalikes, and measuring the performance of storage. All now for Big Sur to Tahoe.

July 8, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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