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Has Sierra’s Time Machine changed to backup on demand?

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Are your backups made every hour? Are you sure? Sierra might have become smarter as to how often it backs up.

October 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Prizes, performance and still life: Chase’s fish speciality

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Why did he paint so many still lifes? And why did so many of them feature fresh fish?

October 2, 2016 General, Painting

Last Week on my Mac: changing diagnostics

Traditional logs occupy too much space, contain unstructured information, impose overhead on all processes, and are badly cluttered.

October 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple pushes out silent updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple pushed out silent updates to the hidden security protection built into Sierra and El Capitan on 1 […]

October 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

Skiffs, sculls, and rowing regattas

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In the 1870s, four major artists painted scenes of rowing and similar watersports – apparently independently.

October 1, 2016 General, Painting

Using the logs in Sierra: some practical tips

How can you look for error messages preceding an app crashing, or when your Mac panicked and automatically restarted?

October 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

The spontaneous or methodical: Chase and Eakins at work

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Their working methods could hardly have been more different, but they shared a common interest.

September 30, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

Sierra, wide colourspaces, and browser engines

Colour gets simpler and better in Sierra, except of course when it comes to the web. Have you had any odd colour glitches?

September 30, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Into the Light: Julian Onderdonk – bluebonnets and pseudonyms

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One of the most famous Texan painters, he is known for his bluebonnet works. But he also painted under pseudonyms when in New York.

September 29, 2016 General, Painting

Welcome to macOS Sierra’s new Console: it’s buried in Terminal

So how do you check your logs to see if backups have been made correctly? Forget Console – you’ve got to use Terminal.

September 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

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