Checksums and CRC can be very quick, but have significant drawbacks. SHA-256 hashes are best, although there are also error-correcting codes used in optical disks.
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Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
A unique virtual exhibition of some of Rubens’ finest depictions of myths drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
How to recognise Catalyst and iPadOS apps from RunningBoard’s job descriptions, and how iPadOS apps are launched differently. And why RunningBoard can take a high CPU %.
From his first self-portrait when he was 29, through his wild years in Munich and Berlin, his stroke in 1911, and the First World War, to his last shortly before his death 100 years ago.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 316. Here are my solutions to them. 1: From […]
These updates feature overhauled windows, new app icons for compatibility with Tahoe, and have been rebuilt. LogUI gets a minor tweak that should improve its window controls in Tahoe.
Originally extracted from the madder plant, and turned into a pigment by laking, its colour could fade within months. Later purified to alizarin it proved no better, and is now used as a measure of non-lightfastness.
A mystery volume mounts from nowhere, and its name starts with Creedence. This is a cryptex, also favoured in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. Is it a ghost of the past, or harbinger of the future?
The red that lasts hundreds of years without fading, but it’s a highly toxic salt of mercury. Used in European paintings from the Romans to the late 19th century.
The Eclectic Light Company 