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Apple silicon: 2 Power and thermal glory

How power efficiency is just as important to desktop Macs as it is to notebooks, and the story of the Mac mini in power from 2005-2023.

February 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

Sea of Mists: Caspar David Friedrich to 1820

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Born in Swedish Pomerania, studied in Copenhagen, and lived most of his adult life in Dresden. Paintings from early landscapes in 1807 to ‘Chalk Cliffs on RΓΌgen’.

February 22, 2024 General, Life, Painting

iCloud does throttle data syncing after all

You’ve got a good Internet connection and iCloud should be working fine, but won’t sync data between your Mac and devices. Could it be throttled?

February 22, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 115 Bottle of trouble

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Bottles of alcoholic drink as the way to disaster, absinthe, and the last need of the destitute. As virtuoso displays, and in still lifes.

February 21, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Mints version 1.18 now shows floating-point numbers in hex

Did you know that, in 64-bit double floating-point format, the number pi is 4009 21FB 6000 0000? Now you can discover that, and reverse from hex to regular decimal, using Mints.

February 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has overnight released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it to […]

February 21, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 114 Bottle of potion

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Glass bottles contain potions, including medicines for the sick, and more generally for scientific purposes. Some also contain alcoholic drinks.

February 20, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Shopping for a faster external SSD

Given that Thunderbolt SSDs are unusual and expensive, should you buy a USB4 model that claims to be compatible with Thunderbolt? Watch out for the traps.

February 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, […]

February 19, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Changing Paintings: 7 Gossip and the death of Coronis

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The raven’s feathers are changed from white to black, the crow replaced by an owl originally threatened by Neptune’s rape, and more.

February 19, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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