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Keeping cool: physics

With the heat of summer drawing near, it’s time to consider keeping our Macs and their peripherals cool. Covers thermal paste, heat sinks, fans and more.

March 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 and Ventura 13.6.6 updates

Apple has released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.4.1, build 23E224, and that for Ventura 13.6.6. […]

March 25, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Changing Paintings: 12 Death of Semele and Jupiter’s surrogate pregnancy

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One of Ovid’s weirdest tales, in which Juno convinces the pregnant Semele to demand her lover Jupiter reveals himself, resulting in her death, caesarian section and his surrogate pregnancy.

March 25, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 248

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 248. Here are my solutions to them. 1: With […]

March 25, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

APFS: Directories and names

B+trees, directory records, directory and file names and Unicode normalisation, and whatever happened to the promise of fast directory sizing?

March 25, 2024 Macs, Technology

Pushing back landscape paintings 2

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Repoussoir through windows, doors, then invading the middle of the painting with Corot and Pissarro, before Cézanne inverted it altogether.

March 24, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Attack of the Clones

We’re almost unaware of clone files, and how they’ve changed macOS. But look at most documents that have been saved more than once, and you’ll see they’ve now be cloned.

March 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

Pushing back landscape paintings 1

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How repoussoir originated in figurative painting, and came to become a popular compositional technique for landscapes from Giorgione to Turner.

March 23, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 248

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

March 23, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Is Apple lagging in AI?

Has Apple fallen behind in ML and AI? Why hasn’t it got its own Large Language Model, and how can it possibly catch up now?

March 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

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