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Last Week on My Mac: Why has Apple put snapshots in a straitjacket?

Snapshots are one of the crown jewels of APFS, and very powerful. Why then has Apple made them almost impossible to use?

September 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Crowded Cities: paintings of urban crowds 1

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Crowded streets in town and cities, from Jan van Eyck in 1435 to Pasini’s market in Constantinople in 1877.

September 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 13

Three riddles to tease your mind. Solutions will be posted here on Monday morning.

September 21, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

What’s that file then? How to identify unknown file types

You’re checking through old files. How can you tell which file type they are when you don’t recognise the extension, or they don’t even have that to help?

September 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

The Napoleon of Painting: the bicentenary of Théodore Chassériau 2

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Born 200 years ago today, he should have been one of the major artists of the 19th century, but died when he had only just turned 37.

September 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The problem with APFS snapshots

Very few apps are able to make APFS snapshots – Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner, and SuperDuper! Why aren’t they more accessible?

September 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

The Napoleon of Painting: the bicentenary of Théodore Chassériau 1

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A pupil of JAD Ingres when he was only 11 years old, his first work exhibited at the Salon when he was only 16: a precocious and brilliant narrative artist.

September 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Volume recovery using an APFS snapshot

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A good way of restoring a volume which has been damaged is from a previous snapshot. How easy is it in practice, though?

September 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Pure Landscapes: Alfred Sisley, 1890-94

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Series, first loose collections of avenues of poplars, then the bridge of Moret-sur-Loing, and finally the mass of the Church in the town. Some of his finest paintings.

September 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Mojave 10.14.6 can still panic MacBook Pro 15-inch 2018 and 2019 models

Some MacBook Pro users may still suffer sporadic kernel panics because of firmware bugs in any release of […]

September 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

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