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Month: September 2025

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 […]

September 3, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

The Dutch Golden Age: Vanitas

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Expressing a weariness with this life and yearning for the next, they originated in Flanders, but soon became popular in the Dutch Republic in its Golden Age.

September 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Preview’s saving grace and how to use it

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Without you saving any changes made to a document, Preview saves versions in the macOS versioning system that could prove a great help. Here’s how to use it.

September 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Pure pigment

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Made of almost pure pigment, soft pastel painting didn’t start until after 1650. They excel in representing flesh, so became popular for portraits, and have since extended to other genres.

September 2, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How much power does Visual Look Up use?

Using powermetrics and log entries, a single image was processed on an M4 Pro, with content analysis and object recognition and look-up. How much power and energy did that use?

September 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 6 Money and anger

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They descend past Plutus to the circle of misers and spendthrifts rolling boulders around, then down to the Stygian lake of the angry and miserable. They cross the Styx in Phlegyas’ boat.

September 1, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 323

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 323. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Well-guarded […]

September 1, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

How large is that file?

When the numbers simply don’t add up. How some extended attributes may be included in quoted file sizes, but others are ignored, and Sequoia hasn’t really changed this since Classic Mac OS of 25 years ago.

September 1, 2025 Macs, Technology

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