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: Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 149

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 149. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]

May 2, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Don’t trust Activity Monitor on M1 Macs

Using CPU % or Energy values in Activity Monitor appears to show that running code on E cores is less efficient than on P cores. Don’t believe a word of it.

May 2, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Do M2 Macs need better storage support?

Thunderbolt 5 isn’t available yet, and in any case will probably offer no more than 6 GB/s. So what is the way ahead for Apple in its successors to its M1 series chips?

May 1, 2022 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 149

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

April 30, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Thunderbolt

Fundamentally a combination of PCI Express and DisplayPort, with substantial power supply, there are several reasons why you won’t get the whole 40 Gb/s from external storage.

April 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to MRT

Apple has just pushed an update to its malware removal tool MRT, bringing it to version 1.93, dated […]

April 29, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Which SSDs can you boot your M1 Mac from? Do hard disks work too?

Which of the external disks tested can be used to boot from? Do they work reliably with Secure Boot? Could you boot from an external hard disk?

April 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

Are Thunderbolt SSDs more consistent than USB?

T T Read More

Armed with just a couple of flashy Thunderbolt NVMe SSDs and his home-made benchmarking app, we discover whether Thunderbolt is any better than USB 3.x.

April 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Why more apps need speed controls

If apps control the Quality of Service, which sets how macOS allocates them to different processor cores in an M1 chip, how can we have any control?

April 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Colour Notes 2: Limited palettes

T T Read More

A grisaille turned into a trompe l’oeil, symphonies in white, making the transition to oil paints, an exercise for pupils, and vibrant primary colours.

April 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 198 199 200 201 202 … 654 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 8,946 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...