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A brief history of help

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Based on a cut-down browser, Help Viewer, Apple Help in Mac OS X has had its ups and downs, and several internal revisions, the latest of which is the Tips app in Sequoia.

January 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: Introduction to paintings of life in growing cities

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By the end of the 19th century, 80% of those in Europe lived in towns and cities, drawn there by the promise of material riches that were not available to them in the country. This new series explores what they faced.

January 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Apple silicon CPU cores of the same type aren’t the same after all

In any M-series family, I’ve always assumed that P and E cores were the same, whether it’s a base or Ultra variant. That isn’t correct, though.

January 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Kitchens

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A grand castle kitchen, the element fire, Vermeer’s milkmaid, a witch’s kitchen for Faust, a rotund cardinal tasting the sauce, and in a humble apartment in London.

January 16, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How Low Power mode controls CPU cores

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Low Power mode operates pre-emptive control of CPU core frequency to deliver the best compromise between low power use and performance. Here’s how it does so.

January 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 182 Deer

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A deer substituted for the sacrifice of Iphigenia, as companions for the sorceresses Medea and Circe, in Bonnard’s rural idyll, Rosa Bonheur’s wildlife portraits, and others.

January 15, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Create an external bootable disk for Apple silicon and Intel Macs

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Two important catches that can cause a macOS installation to fail in Apple silicon: using the DFU port, and not setting up ownership correctly. Both are explained here.

January 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

January 14, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Changing Paintings: 53 The death of Orpheus

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The bard is torn limb from limb by frenzied bacchantes, leaving his head and lyre to float down the River Hebrus and over to the shores of Lesbos.

January 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Thunderbolt ports aren’t all the same

Some support USB4, others don’t. Some share the controller, others don’t. Some support DFU mode but then can’t be used to create a bootable external disk on Apple silicon.

January 14, 2025 Macs, Technology

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