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Reading Visual Art: 189 Lightning of the gods

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Jupiter’s bundle of thunderbolts that have survived into computer technology, lightning in great floods, in the destruction of Tyre, and the three witches in Macbeth.

February 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What is System Data in Storage Settings?

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The bar chart in Storage Settings shows most of your startup volume is full of System Data. What does it mean, and what use is it? Is its measure of used and free space accurate?

February 11, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.3.1, and 14.7.4, 13.7.4

Apple has just released a security update to macOS Sequoia to bring it to version 15.3.1, and security […]

February 10, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Changing Paintings: 57 The sacrifice of Iphigenia

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The Greek fleet is stuck in the port of Aulis due to strong winds and heavy seas. A seer tells Agamemnon the only solution is to sacrifice his daughter to Diana.

February 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 294

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 294. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Cool […]

February 10, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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

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