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Accents or repeat: how is your keyboard configured?

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What happens when you press and hold the e key? Does it repeat, or do you see a window offering accented versions? Do you know you can change that?

March 22, 2024 Language, Macs, Technology

Versatility: a new drag-and-drop utility to archive and unarchive file versions

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Convert a document into a folder containing all its saved versions, and unarchive that folder back into a document with all those saved versions. All using drag-and-drop.

March 22, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Sea of Mists: Carl Gustav Carus 1826-50

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From 1925, he moved away from themes common with his teacher Friedrich and developed his own Gothic Romanticism.

March 21, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How to recover Recovery

There’s a problem with your Mac, so you try starting it up in Recovery. But that doesn’t work. What should try next? Intel and Apple silicon Macs are then quite different.

March 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 123 Vanitas in more recent times

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After 1850, there was a resurgence of expressions of the emptiness and futility of earthly life, with symbols of death and transience of ephemeral objects.

March 20, 2024 General, Life, Painting

APFS: Files and clones

Understanding how APFS works: inodes, attributes, file extents, extended attributes, and how they change with editing and cloning.

March 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 129, […]

March 19, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 122 Vanitas in the 17th century

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Originating in the Northern Renaissance, these paintings expressed feelings of emptiness, and the futility of earthly life. Examples of these elaborate allegories.

March 19, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Sonoma’s lost versions bug: what it is and how to safeguard versions

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How to reproduce this serious bug in Sonoma 14.4, and how to archive all the versions of a file or document so they can’t get destroyed.

March 19, 2024 Macs, Technology

Is there a problem in Sonoma’s universalaccessd?

Have noticed brief periods of high CPU for universalaccessd in Sonoma? Do you know what com.apple.axserver is and why it can’t be found? Can you help with this puzzle?

March 19, 2024 Macs, Technology

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