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Which cores does Visual Look Up use?

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Which type of CPU cores are most active during Visual Look Up? How their frequencies and active residencies change? How demanding is it?

September 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released macOS 26 Tahoe, and Sequoia 15.7, Sonoma 14.8

Apple has just released macOS 26.0 Tahoe (build 25A354), together with security updates to Sequoia taking it to […]

September 15, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Appearance matters: Get Tahoe looking in better shape

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How to use appearance mode, reduce transparency, increase contrast, and icon, widget & folder colour to get Tahoe looking just right.

September 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 8 The Minotaur, killers and suicides

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Descending past the Minotaur of Crete, they reach a group of centaurs and travel on past famous killers, into a wood of thorn trees of those who committed suicide.

September 15, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 325

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 325. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Not […]

September 15, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Will Macs get Apple’s new memory protection?

Malicious software often relies on corruption and other problems with memory. Latest iPhones come with new hardware-based protection that’s also likely to come in a future M-series chip. Here are the details.

September 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painting the Four Seasons 2: 1660-1917

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Nicolas Poussin’s superb set from the end of his career, a series of women by Bouguereau, Delacroix’s set of myths, Mucha, Crane and a Japanese set from 1917.

September 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Quarter on My Mac: Which apps for macOS Tahoe?

A total of 31 new versions of apps built for compatibility with Tahoe; 3 virtualisers that still work fine but need overhaul; 5 command tools tested and found compatible. With download links.

September 14, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Painting the Four Seasons 1: 1590-1630

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Arcimboldo’s 4 in 1, two sets by Joos de Momper, one anthropomorphic the other of landscapes, and a splendid set by Pieter Brueghel the Younger.

September 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 325

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Not quite […]

September 13, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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