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How has XProtect changed?

Apple’s pushed update to XProtect’s data a couple of days ago is one of the most substantial since […]

October 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to get Photos to show the library selection dialog each time it runs

Do you want Photos to show its library selection dialog when it opens? Here’s one solution without the Option key.

October 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Orlando Furioso: Lovers and hippogriffs

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Rinaldo is chasing Angelica, whom he is helplessly in love with, but she hates him, and wants to escape from France, as Charlemagne is preparing for the siege of Paris.

October 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Security changes coming in Catalina: what’s changed

What to expect from the many changes to security and privacy in the first release of Catalina. How to run non-notarized apps, and more.

October 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

October 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Orlando Furioso: Introduction

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Under the patronage of the d’Estes, Ariosto drew on Carolingian and Arthurian legend, and classical myths, to create his epic. With superb paintings to accompany.

October 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

How to preserve metadata stored in a custom extended attribute

Xattrs are marvellous features of macOS, but unless a developer is aware of their lability and how to preserve them, they aren’t good places to store metadata of any importance.

October 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Visual Riddles: Summary and contents

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New genres in literature gave the public a taste for different forms of narrative. Here’s a short account of the response in ‘problem pictures’ from Hunt to Collier.

September 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 14

How did you get on with this week’s riddles?

September 30, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Should you trust Disk Utility’s First Aid or fsck?

Third party tools for checking and repairing APFS are still very limited. Is it better to use fsck to check and repair APFS?

September 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

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