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Month: December 2025

Saturday Mac riddles 340

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

December 27, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Use and access clipping files: textClippings, weblocs, and maillocs

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Introduced in about 1999, they come in 3 flavours: weblocs, maillocs and textClippings. How they have changed, how you can still use them, and how to fix them.

December 27, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Christmas Trees

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Christmas trees cut in the woods, or bought in a seasonal market. Queen Marie and ordinary families gathered round, and finally falling asleep exhausted.

December 26, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Use Providable to check file histories

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Verify that the app doesn’t change file extended attributes, discover why false flags result from updating apps in place, check who has been changing your preferences, and how to add App Store apps to Provenance tracking.

December 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Christmas paintings

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The Nativity, Adoration of the Shepherds and the Magi, painted by Bastien-Lepage, Murillo, Hieronymus Bosch, Edward Burne-Jones, and others.

December 25, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Inspect provenance and quarantine info in Providable, a Christmas present

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A new app to check files for Providence IDs and Quarantine information, so providing info about the origin and recent edit history of those files.

December 25, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Jacques-Louis David 1: Before the Revolution

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Successful on his 4th attempt at the Prix de Rome, he became the leading Neoclassical painter and painted history and other narratives. Then he became embroiled in the French Revolution.

December 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Explainer: UUIDs

How to read a UUID to determine whether it’s supposed to be random, or has a specific meaning. Where you’ll find them, and whether you’ll ever see two the same.

December 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1925: people

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Portraits by Lovis Corinth, Thomas Eakins’ widow Susan, a great Estonian pastellist, and others, and insights into Pierre Bonnard’s conflicted personal life.

December 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What blocks QuickLook from some directories?

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Why can’t some files be seen in thumbnails, or previews, but almost everything else can be seen thanks to QuickLook? And is this connected to Spotlight indexing?

December 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

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