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Month: August 2025

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 320

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 320. Here are my solutions to them. 1: What […]

August 11, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Inside XProtect Remediator, and how it could save us from disaster

Six years ago, the old MRT saved millions of Macs from coming under attack. XPR could one day do the same. A new deep dive into its function has just been presented at Black Hat. Also updates on status_code 30 and missed scans.

August 11, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painting the summer storm 2

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Summer storms from Constant Troyon, Albert Bierstadt, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Pierre Bonnard and others.

August 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Spotlight sorcery

macOS gained Live Text and Visual Look Up when Apple declared its intent to check our images. Both are used in Spotlight’s indexes, but their function seems unreliable and highly variable.

August 10, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painting the summer storm 1

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Paintings of summer storms from the dawn of landscape art and Giorgione, through Poussin and Vernet, to Palmer and Constable.

August 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 320

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

August 9, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of PDF on the Mac

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Adobe’s Carousel reader came in 1993, and in Mac OS X PDF was built into its Quartz graphics. That enabled Preview to become the claimed ‘fastest PDF viewer on the planet’.

August 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 221 Club and skin B

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While other uncouth figures fought with their clubs, animal skins appealed to a different group, as John Godward’s beauties draped their bodies on them.

August 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

macOS Sequoia end of cycle report

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How frequent and large were macOS Sequoia’s updates? How has it grown in total system bundles and apps? Which categories have grown most?

August 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 220 Club and skin A

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That well-muscled man brandishing a large olive-wood club and wearing a lion-skin can only be the ultimate high-testosterone uncouth hero, Hercules.

August 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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