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Saturday Mac riddles 334

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

November 15, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: .DS_Store files

They’re invisible in the Finder, even when it’s showing hidden files. They’re present in many of the folders in your Home folder. And they can do bad things like break your backups.

November 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 235 Fish B

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Tuna fishing in Spain, goldfish sold as pets or in a Berlin flat, underwater with a diver, and in many still lifes, including those of William Merritt Chase, the master of fish.

November 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How the Clock hoards timers until it breaks

If you use Timers in the Clock app a lot, after a while the app may stop working and show a blank view. This is the result of a service hoarding old timers to its property list.

November 14, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 234 Fish A

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Venus born surrounded by colourful fish, in the element water, in a feeding frenzy by Turner’s Slave Ship, with mermaids, and brought ashore ready to eat.

November 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Does that SSD Trim, and why is it important?

Trim enables an SSD to erase pages of unused memory so they’re ready for reuse. It saves time, and greatly improves write performance. How to the best out of Trim.

November 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Chiaroscuro in Utrecht

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How Dutch painters studying in Italy came to be influenced by Caravaggio, and took his style back to Utrecht, where they became known as Utrecht Caravaggists.

November 12, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Erase All Content and Settings does what it says

It throws away the encryption key for the Data volume, effectively wiping all its data. It doesn’t alter the System volume, SSV, or the macOS installed.

November 12, 2025 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Varnish and the mists of grime

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Composition and effects of different types of varnish, with its visual effects, and how it can make a painting unreadable when it contains accumulated dirt.

November 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Big guns for Tahoe problems: which radical fixes still work?

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Which problem-solving techniques are still available in macOS Tahoe? While Intel Macs still have a few, Apple silicon Macs don’t have many left.

November 11, 2025 Macs, Technology

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