Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs & painting – 🦉 No AI content
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • Freeware
  • M-series Macs
  • Mac Problems
  • Mac articles
  • Macs
  • Art

Category Archive: Macs

How good is GPU access for Apple silicon virtual machines?

Apple claims that its macOS VMs can run Metal and deliver “great graphics performance”. How could you assess that, and are they really that good?

October 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

What has changed in the macOS Sonoma 14.1 update?

Full details, including a warning about older camera support. If you know what an Apple T6041 MCC is, this might provide a tantalising clue.

October 25, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released Sonoma 14.1 update, and security updates to Ventura and Monterey

Apple has just released the first update to macOS Sonoma, taking it to version 14.1, as well as […]

October 25, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

macOS Sonoma has changed iCloud Drive radically

The small stub files used as placeholders for files evicted to iCloud Drive have vanished. Could that be why some Macs had to download the whole contents of their iCloud Drive?

October 25, 2023 Macs, Technology

Where Safari hides and bundled apps crash

Look for Safari in /System/Applications and it’s not there any more. And an inactive boot volume group has no bundled apps in its main Applications folder.

October 24, 2023 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 226

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 226. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Conversions […]

October 23, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple silicon?

T T Read More

Code run in a lightweight Virtual Machine can’t take advantage of the Efficiency cores of the host Apple silicon Mac. How then does Sonoma handle its threads?

October 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Handling errors

Confess, identify, solution, damage limitation, and reference – key elements in the information an app needs to provide the user when an error occurs.

October 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 226

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Conversions in 2017 […]

October 21, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

What happens when you run a macOS VM on Apple silicon?

Once the virtualisation app has configured a VM to be run, it starts it, and stands back as the macOS Virtual Machine Service does all the hard work.

October 21, 2023 Macs, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 127 128 129 130 131 … 648 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • Free Software Menu
  • About & Contact
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Downloads
  • Mac problem-solving
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • Painting topics
  • SilentKnight, Skint, SystHist, silnite, LockRattler & Scrub
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • xattred, SpotTest, Providable, Spotcord, Metamer & xattr tools
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • XProCheck, T2M2, LogUI, Ulbow, blowhole and log utilities
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma, Taccy, Signet
  • Versatility & Revisionist
  • Text Utilities: Textovert, Disclipper, Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • PDF
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, DropSum, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • M-series Macs
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • System Updates
  • Saturday Mac Riddles
  • Last Week on My Mac
  • sysctl information
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 9,071 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...