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Paintings of 1925: people

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Portraits by Lovis Corinth, Thomas Eakins’ widow Susan, a great Estonian pastellist, and others, and insights into Pierre Bonnard’s conflicted personal life.

December 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What blocks QuickLook from some directories?

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Why can’t some files be seen in thumbnails, or previews, but almost everything else can be seen thanks to QuickLook? And is this connected to Spotlight indexing?

December 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painted stories of the Decameron: Ansaldo’s enchanted garden

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A faithful wife is being pestered by another man. She sets him an impossible task, of creating an enchanted Spring garden in the January snow.

December 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 339

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 339. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

December 22, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

When the Finder suffers premature ejection: a longstanding bug

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Add another volume to your Mac’s internal SSD and try to eject it. All hell breaks loose as the Finder wants to eject the whole disk, it seems. Probably a 6-year old bug.

December 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Annunciation re-imagined 1850-1923

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Innovative interpretations from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Vittorio Corcos, Oleksandr Murashko, JW Waterhouse, and Jacek Malczewski.

December 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Upgrades and the standard user

Standard users aren’t allowed to chang other users’ settings, but they’ve long been able to update macOS, and for the last 3 years to install full upgrades. Should this change?

December 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Annunciation imaged 1430-1680

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Fine paintings from Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolomeo, Gerard David, Beccafumi, Lavinia Fontana, Tintoretto, El Greco and Murillo.

December 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 339

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

December 20, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Storage settings

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It was notorious for its crashes and reporting discrepancies, but now it’s incorporated in System Settings it’s more reliable and helpful. But there’s still the problem of System Data.

December 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

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