Few Macs survived the past week without an update, and for more recent models that meant two updates. Have we gone forward, and if so, where have we got to?
Author: hoakley
Some of the strange things seen on the beach, from racing sandyachts in 1608, to mermaids and mermen three centuries later.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Brown beverage […]
Why floating point numbers expressed in hexadecimal are so difficult to read, and how to use Mints’ Floating Point Explorer to convert and understand them.
Brilliant, painting over 4,000 oil paintings in little more than 15 years, arrested as a French spy, and finally succumbed to bouts of heavy drinking and mounting debts.
If you installed the first Xcode beta in macOS 26.5.1, it probably stopped you building any more VMs. Here’s what happened, and how to recover normal virtualisation, even creating Golden Gate beta VMs again.
A style set by Monet and Renoir in their 1869 paintings of La Grenouillère, it became more deliberate and even adopted by those considered to paint in academic style.
The commands to use with softwareupdate to download and install different types of update and complete macOS installers. And how to deal with XProtect in Sequoia and later.
From trompe l’oeil for sculpture to children making rabbits on the wall, shadows have long been popular, and most recently have featured in Surrealist paintings too.
How macOS makes the association between file types and apps for the Finder and GUI, using UTIs and their associated data including filename extensions. Why clashes occur, and how they’re resolved.
The Eclectic Light Company 