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Watch your background: In-app background tasks

Easy to code, these don’t need to use XPC although it’s used by the DAS-CTS scheduling and dispatch system. They aren’t run at constant time intervals, but when appropriate according to other loads.

February 10, 2025 Macs, Technology

Inglorious mud: 2 To the War to End Wars

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Mud during the Franco-Prussian War, in Nordic countryside, and enveloping everything including the dead during the First World War.

February 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: A brief history of what we take for granted

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Achieving reliable colour reproduction with computers drew from several fields from neurophysiology to physics. Could it have been accomplished by anything other than humans?

February 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Inglorious mud: 1 On the move

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How the rich paid to walk on planks to cross muddy streets, and hussars helped ladies over mud ruts, children at play, roads in London and Leeds, and a cheeky ploughboy.

February 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 294

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Cool colour […]

February 8, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of ColorSync

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First released in 1993 to support colour printing, version 2.0 in 1995 brought fuller features and ICC support. Still going strong despite the decline of colour printing.

February 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: 3 Factories

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Iron and steel mills and foundries, a printing shop, a lead mine still employing children, and spinners – all relentlessly demanding, without lighter work.

February 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Add custom file and folder icons in Sequoia

Adding your own custom icons to files and folders goes back a long way, to Classic Mac OS […]

February 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Hospital wards

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From those run and staffed by religious orders around 1600 to the 19th century’s revolution in nursing, and dazzlingly white interiors with radiators.

February 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Start planning your Mac’s Spring clean

Spring will soon be upon us, and it’s time to plan our Spring software housekeeping to clear out the junk that has accumulated over the winter. How to go about it.

February 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

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