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Last Week on My Mac: Two betas and one giant leap

When we were updating to macOS 14.6, Apple released the first beta of 15.1 to developers. Does this mean it’s skipping straight past 15.0 to bring you its new AI tools?

August 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

Heroines 9: Blood of a centaur and the troubled woman

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Who is this deeply troubled woman, only known for her attempted abduction by the Centaur Nessus? And how did she bring about Hercules’ death?

August 3, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 267

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

August 3, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Directory Services

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A replacement for the NetInfo service in NeXTSTEP and early Mac OS X, Open Directory is an LDAPv3 service delivered as Directory Services, and essential to permissions, authentication and more.

August 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

A to Z of Landscapes: Yellow

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Yellow for harvest at the end of the dry summer. Also mixed with blues and greens, although sometimes not proving lightfast.

August 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

System fonts: the delights of San Francisco

How can you use San Francisco, the system font for macOS and Apple’s other OSes? An example traced through from macOS internals to PDF and HTML.

August 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

Sea of Mists: German Romantic painters

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An overview of the German Romantic painters including Caspar David Friedrich and JC Dahl, with links to all the original articles in this series.

August 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Updates to DelightEd, Podofyllin and Nalaprop for Writing Tools

Three new versions that are compatible with Writing Tools in Sequoia 15.1 beta, and should perform better in other recent versions of macOS.

August 1, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 145 Divine flight

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Largely restricted among Classical deities to Hermes, Cupid, and personifications of winds, heavenly bodies, and events, the gift of flight extends to angels and even saints.

July 31, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Delving deep into user accounts in Directory Services

Advanced settings for users have been moved out of Users & Groups, but are still accessible in Directory Utility for those who are careful not to do anything hazardous.

July 31, 2024 Macs, Technology

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