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Category Archive: Technology

Which Safari extensions do you use?

I’ve two which I couldn’t do without. StopTheMadness restores Mac features like menus, autocomplete, copy and paste. Better is my choice of tracker blocker.

March 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Medium Well Done: 1 Fresco and secco wall painting

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Many of the greatest and most important European works of art are painted on walls or ceilings. Explains secco, fresco, and how they influence the result.

March 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Medium Well Done: 0 Introduction and terminology

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Introduction to a series looking at different painting systems. Establishes how their key components are the support, ground, pigment, binder and diluent and explains terms.

March 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

When the wrong copy/version of the right app opens a document

Sometimes macOS decides you want to open documents using the wrong version of the right app. Here’s how to fix that.

March 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Choosing your new iMac: picking the best storage compromise

Fancy a new iMac? With a hard disk or a Fusion Drive? It’s worth considering their drawbacks, and looking at a smaller SSD perhaps.

March 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Some tweaks to make Podofyllin easier to use

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Now saves windows sizes and positions, and settings for display of thumbnails and raw PDF source.

March 19, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

macOS 10.14.4 update likely on 25 March, with new iMacs and more?

Ready to download updates to macOS, iOS, watchOS, Xcode, and some security updates, all at once? It looks like we’re going to be busy next week.

March 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

How LaunchServices builds the Open Recent menu, and outsmarts Aliases

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How can the Open Recent menu offer to open a document that no longer exists when the volume it was on is no longer mounted?

March 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Happy birthday APFS

iOS 10.3, released on 27 March 2017, thrust the new file system on a great many unsuspecting users. Apple chose a high risk strategy. Has it paid off?

March 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Disk Utility can’t resize APFS disk images, but hdiutil can

Want to increase the size of a disk image in APFS? If you’re relying on Disk Utility to do it, you’re out of luck. But here’s how to do this at the command line instead.

March 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

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