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Month: October 2025

Check your Mac is secure

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How to check secure boot, SIP, Gatekeeper/XProtect, its SSV, FileVault, macOS and its firmware, and XProtect Remediator scans.

October 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Surface texture

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Tiny jewels fashioned from blobs of white paint, Rembrandt’s textured paint layers. Turner’s scratchings, and van Gogh’s textured Wheat Field with Cypresses, seen in fine detail.

October 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Inside the Unified Log 5: Navigation

How to combine the time of interest with waypoints to reduce 100,000 log entries to just a handful, and discover what you’re looking for in the log.

October 14, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 12 Fraud and inciting division

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First a centaur killed by Hercules, then souls being tormented by reptiles, those with fraudulent lives burning in hell, and dismembered parts of those who inflamed dissent.

October 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 329

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 329. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Two […]

October 13, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Is Tahoe quicker to launch apps first time?

Whether a quarantined and notarized app undergoes translocation, Tahoe doesn’t run XProtect checks to determine if it’s malicious. And how to tell when an app is running from translocation.

October 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Impressionism

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In 1865, Bazille, Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Cézanne started painting outdoors in front of the motif in the forest, and so Impressionism began.

October 12, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe’s elephant

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All of us rely on tone (brightness, lightness) to interpret what we see. Visual artists have gone to great lengths in tonal modelling, but macOS Tahoe offers only bleached-out white or blacked-out black.

October 12, 2025 Macs, Technology

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Barbizon

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After some early visits, young landscape painters started to visit the forest in 1829, and became the Barbizon School.

October 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 329

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

October 11, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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