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Last Week on My Mac: Drag, drop, clipping

Drag content from an app onto the Desktop or a location in a Finder window to create a clipping file. Although they date back to the early 1990s, they’re still well supported in Tahoe.

January 4, 2026 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Le Cannet: 1901-27

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A small village inland from the resort of Cannes, on the Mediterranean coast. Home to Renoir as an escape for his arthritis, and later to Pierre Bonnard, who settled down there.

January 3, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 341

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

January 3, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Text, strings and Unicode

ASCII and its variants, code pages for non-Latin languages, then Unicode brought three major formats with endian variants and normalisation forms.

January 3, 2026 Macs, Technology

Painting the first month of the New Year

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January is named after the Roman god of transitions, Janus, and is the first month of the New Year. Or is it? Classical civilisations more usually started their year in Spring, and what’s this about Juno?

January 2, 2026 General, Life, Painting

How macOS has grown 2019-2025

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Analyses of numbers of bundles in the /System folder and significant folders within that, for macOS 10.14.5 Mojave to 26.2 Tahoe. These show how private macOS has become.

January 2, 2026 Macs, Technology

This Year in Paintings: Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Frederick Edwin Church and others

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Symbolism, Naturalism, Neo-Impressionism, industrial realism, Hudson River landscapes, folklore, orientalist landscapes, Impressionism, and genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age.

January 1, 2026 General, Life, Painting

ICYMI: a selection of the best Mac articles of 2025 – 2

Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering security, logs, macOS generally, Spotlight in particular, and some utilities.

January 1, 2026 Macs, Technology

The best of 2025’s paintings and articles 2

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Last of London’s working horses, the fall of Phaethon, 3D water droplets in Hell, vanitas symbols, Neptune’s horses, a blown-out umbrella, and others.

December 31, 2025 General, Life, Painting

ICYMI: a selection of the best Mac articles of 2025 – 1

Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering hardware, firmware and Recovery, troubleshooting and updates.

December 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

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