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Month: August 2025

What does RunningBoard do? 5 Log insights

How to discover which apps were launched, which appexes were run, and life cycle events for executable bundles, and map waypoints and events in the log.

August 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Origins

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The Renaissance provided the tools of realist painting, but remained largely bound to religious and mythical motifs. Seventy years later, many new genres had appeared.

August 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Is your Mac’s firmware up to date?

Gives the latest firmware versions for all Macs running the most recent supported version of macOS, and which are expected to change in the future.

August 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5309, […]

August 5, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Medium and Message: Anatomy of paintings

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Defines and explains key terms, from the support, through the ground and paint layer with its binder and diluent, to the varnish to protect its surface.

August 5, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Access Linux file systems from Apple silicon Macs

How can you access files on a NAS connected directly to an Apple silicon Mac, or those saved to external storage using Ext4 or similar?

August 5, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 2 Abandon hope

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Virgil leads Dante through the gate of Hell, with its inscription ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here’. Charon is persuaded to carry them across with the souls of the dead to enter Hell.

August 4, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 319

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 319. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Successor […]

August 4, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A deeper dive into Spotlight indexing and local search

Looks at how Spotlight adds a batch of new files to its volume indexes, and how it handles and answers queries.

August 4, 2025 Macs, Technology

The first modern pigment: Prussian blue

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The first modern synthetic pigment, from 1704. Adopted by Canaletto, Hogarth and many others since, and still offered in many paint ranges.

August 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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