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Erase All Contents and Settings: prepare your Mac for disposal and more

Passing your Mac on to a new owner has got much easier and more reliable in Monterey – so long as it has got a T2 or M1 series chip.

November 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 34: The puppet massacre and a retreat

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Don Quixote runs amok at a puppet show, destroying all the puppets, then has to beat a hasty retreat when Sancho brays out of turn.

November 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 126

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 126. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Select […]

November 22, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

More memory leaks in Monterey 12.0.1: how to avoid them

Is Monterey burning your memory away? Here are two reproducible memory leaks which could explain that, plus two more than might.

November 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

A short history of shadows in paintings 2

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Telling a story using shadows, and the nineteenth century controversy over the colour of shadows.

November 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Snapshot hostages

How to repair a snapshot with an error when it’s one of your backups on a hard disk? Currently this seems impossible, putting all those backups at risk.

November 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

A short history of shadows in paintings 1

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From the shadowed silhouette painted by the legendary Dibutades to paintings of families involved in shadow play.

November 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 126

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Select Khoekhoe for […]

November 20, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: defragmentation

Not long ago, many of us paid for software which tied our Macs up for hours every month or so, defragmenting their hard disks. Why, and why not now?

November 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Characters in Painted Stories: 5 Voyage and Return, Orpheus and Eurydice

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The fourth ‘basic plot’ is the story of voyage and return, for which we turn to Ovid’s account of this couple, and a dozen superb paintings. But does the model fit?

November 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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