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Month: August 2025

DropSum 1.2 is more flexible in handling text

Now ignores spaces and hyphens in hashes, and converts them to lower case. Also improves readability in dark mode, within limits.

August 27, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to […]

August 26, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Medium and Message: Glue as a binder

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Ancient paint made using glue as a binder loses chromatic intensity as it dries, fades readily over time, and forms a fragile paint layer. But it has been popular at times.

August 26, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What is a SEP panic?

The panic log tells you it was a SEP Panic. What’s the SEP, and how is this different from any other panic? And what should you do about it?

August 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 5 Cerberus and gluttony

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First Dante and Virgil have to negotiate the three-headed monster dog Cerberus, guarding Hell, then the stinking mud containing gluttons.

August 25, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 322

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 322. Here are my solutions to them. 1: It’s […]

August 25, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

SpotTest 1.1 has search scopes for volumes

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This can now test and search any regular volume that’s connected to your Mac and mounted in /Volumes, using either NSMetadataQuery in the API, or mdfind instead.

August 25, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Painting the Grain Harvest: Sheaves, stooks and threshing

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The harvest painted by Anna Ancher, Lhermitte, Adrian Stokes, Nikolai Astrup, John Linnell, Félix Vallotton, PS Krøyer, Gérôme, and others.

August 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Bling or Cybertruck window?

Tahoe is overwhelmingly about its human interface. It still has problems in providing reliable contrast between elements and tools in controls and windows contents, and sameness across platforms.

August 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painting the Grain Harvest: Cutting

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Cutting the grain crop, in paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Samuel Palmer, John Linnell, Jean-François Millet, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Mykola Pymonenko and others.

August 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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