I asked Google how I could clear disk space on macOS, and it couldn’t have been more helpful. But what I was told to do downloaded malware to my Mac. How come?
Month: December 2025
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5324. As usual, it doesn’t release […]
The Annunciation, and myth of Vertumnus and Pomona, a tale from Roman history, a favourite fable, stories of schools and a concert of the birds.
Fixes a crashing bug when using its Crawler feature. Analysis of provenance xattrs confirms they can be useful in providing more information about files.
Artists who sketched in front of the motif using oil paints to gather image libraries often kept those on paper, rather than wood panel or stretched canvas.
Apple silicon Macs were designed to boot almost as securely from external disks as from their internal SSD. That makes macOS installation a little more complicated. Here’s how to do that.
Three brothers discover their unmarried sister’s secret lover. They take him to the country, kill him and bury his body. She exhumes him, and takes his head away to hide in a pot of basil.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 337. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Passing […]
By default, quarantine xattrs aren’t attached to new files created by an app. That behaviour is controlled by a setting in their Info.plist, and can be overridden in an Exceptions property list.
Some of Claude Monet’s series from 1903-04, Le Sidaner, Émile Claus, and ending with Lesser Ury from 1926. But there was a more sinister side to the fog and smog.
The Eclectic Light Company 