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Saturday Mac riddles 164

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Forty has the […]

August 13, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Activity Monitor: meanings and misleadings

How to interpret various measurements reported in Activity Monitor, from % CPU to Energy Impact, and how they can be compared across different Macs.

August 13, 2022 Macs, Technology

Sunrise on Impressionism: 3 Henri Rouart

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An amateur artist until 1883, he was a collector and patron, and continued to show his work at each of the Impressionist Exhibitions until 1886.

August 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs: 9 Monterey’s limitations

macOS Monterey is the first version with support for lightweight virtualisation on Apple silicon. Here are its greatest limitations, which make it look more like a dress rehearsal.

August 12, 2022 Macs, Technology

Pastels by Helleu

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Prodigy and friend of John Singer Sargent, he was a successful portrait-painter to the wealthy and a master pastellist.

August 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Lightweight virtualisation of GUI Linux on Ventura

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If you’re running a beta of Ventura on an Apple silicon Mac, here’s a virtualiser for GUI Linux with a footprint of only 33 MB.

August 11, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Paintings of Paul Signac 18: 1896-1935 Colour and Reserved Space

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Concludes a survey of his major paintings with links to detailed articles. From his leadership of Neo-Impressionism to his late watercolours.

August 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Getting more from Activity Monitor: Memory

All about memory: different types, Unified Memory, Mach zones and the kernel, and how to manage system memory problems.

August 10, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Paul Signac 17: 1883-95 Boats and the Bourgeoisie

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A short survey of his major paintings, with links to detailed articles in this series. From his early Impressionism to being leader of Neo-Impressionism after the death of Georges Seurat.

August 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Wrinkles in Universal Control

I was sat in front of my desktop ‘controller’, and the pointer and keyboard were stuck on a Mac which had just shut down. What to do next?

August 9, 2022 Macs, Technology

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