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Diagnose Spotlight local search problems

When Spotlight can’t find the files you expect it to, it could be that they weren’t indexed, or that Spotlight’s search has failed to find their index entries. Here’s how to tell those apart and work out what went wrong.

November 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Winter

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A period in which the winters were exceptionally cold, landscapes showing folk skating on frozen canals and rivers, promenading, and playing kolf, and ancestor of modern golf.

November 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Viewing metadata in the Finder

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The Preview pane in Finder windows can show a comprehensive list of metadata, or a shortened list you can customise in Preview Options. Here’s how to use it and how it can provide further information.

November 19, 2025 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Glazes and optical effects

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Applying thinner layers of paint, or glazes, developed optical effects that were widely used into the late 19th century, but have now fallen from favour.

November 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Which local file systems does macOS 26 support?

A survey of support for APFS, HFS+, FAT and ExFAT, NTFS, ZFS, Linux file systems, and MacFUSE with its potential for file systems running in user-space.

November 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painted stories of the Decameron: Introduction

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Written by Giovanni Boccaccio by 1352 and revised in 1370-71, it consists of a hundred stories told by 7 women and 3 men who fled Florence during the Black Death. Some of those tales have been extensively painted.

November 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 334

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 334. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First […]

November 17, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

How to save web pages using Safari

There are now 5 options, saving to HTML, webarchive, PNG image, and two variants of PDF. Which should you use to keep a record of a web page?

November 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

In Memoriam Sofonisba Anguissola, who died 400 years ago

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Completed her training in about 1553, met Michelangelo in Rome in 1554, where she became an established portraitist, invited to the court of King Philip II of Spain, advised the young van Dyck, and died in her early 90s.

November 16, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Five Tahoe bugs

Normally, the x.1 update fixes many of the bugs from the first release. But in Tahoe, a crop of fresh bugs have been included. Here are some of them, and how they have arisen.

November 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

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