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Last Week on My Mac: Web woes worsen

It should have been so easy: a quick change of Root certificate. So why all the chaos, and most of all why you mustn’t compromise your security as a result.

October 3, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

A life of Theseus in paintings: 2 Killing the Minotaur

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Every 9 years, 9 of the finest young men and 9 young maidens from Athens were sent to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. Then Theseus joined them to kill the monster.

October 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 119

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: In among speech, […]

October 2, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Security certificates

Why do we keep having problems with security certificates when they’re just supposed to work? A look at what they do, and they work.

October 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

A life of Theseus in paintings: 1 Whose are those sandals?

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From abandonment by his father, to the reunion in which Medea tried to poison him, Theseus was a true and thoroughly flawed hero.

October 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Why won’t Safari open that web page?

Did you think it was only old Mac OS X affected by the Let’s Encrypt certificate expiry problem? No, it’s Safari wherever you can use it. Here’s how to deal with it.

October 1, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 11 William Nicholson

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Whistler encouraged him to paint in 1900, and he went on to Impressionist landscapes during the early 20th century. He also won a gold medal at the Olympics, and taught Winston Churchill.

September 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to undelete a file simply

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How to recover a deleted app or document without having to restore from your Time Machine backup. Simple steps and no use of Terminal.

September 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: Ivory miniatures

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During the winter of 1824-25, when in Bordeaux, he painted about 40 remarkable miniatures on slivers of ivory. Here are nine of the survivors.

September 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Going beyond T2M2 with Mints: grokking Time Machine to APFS

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An exploration of how Time Machine backs up to APFS, using Mints to make log access quick, simple, and easy to understand. And notes on changes in Monterey.

September 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

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