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Last Week on My Mac: Just asking for advice

If you’re looking for good advice on Macs, Apple’s support documentation is often limited, and the Tips app has a long way to go before it’s useful. Why not try ChatGPT? Six case studies might be helpful.

November 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

Boccaccio’s Decameron: paintings of Cimon and Iphigenia

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Many wonderful paintings of the opening scene of this short story, but none even hints at its real plot involving three abductions and two murders.

November 23, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 283

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

November 23, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac CPUs

From the first 8 MHz Motorola 68000, through PowerPCs reaching 2.5 GHz and more in up to 4 cores, and Intel x86 with up to 28 cores, to Apple’s M4 Max with 12 P cores at 4.5 GHz.

November 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Drawing Rooms

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A dramatic family break-up, Norwegian light and music, a library, ornate decor with a bird cage, and a truly avant-garde interior of 1913.

November 22, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How to tell if Spotlight has indexed a file correctly

You use Spotlight to search for something you’re sure is there, but it can’t find it. Here are some methods to discover why that search failed.

November 22, 2024 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: Trades

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Self-help thatching and maintaining your scythe, blacksmiths hard at work in their forges, a tilt-hammer in another forge, and a tinker fixing pots.

November 21, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How do APFS volume roles work?

What separates System and Data volumes, and how does macOS know they’re part of a boot volume group? What distinguished backup volumes, and what is Sidecar?

November 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 175 Butterfly, natural

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Beauties by William Holman Hunt, Gustave Doré, Bruno Liljefors, Vincent van Gogh, Odilon Redon, Richard Dadd and others.

November 20, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Inside M4 chips: CPU core performance

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In-core performance compared across P and E cores in M1, M3 and M4 chips shows substantial performance improvements, particularly in vector and matrix computation.

November 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

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