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Saturday Mac riddles 345

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: No amateur […]

January 31, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: snapshots

Fundamentally simple: a preserved copy of a volume at a moment in time. How its size can only increase with time, how they’re managed, what they’re used for, and the tools for using them.

January 31, 2026 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 242 Apelles

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Greatest master in Ancient Greece, but all his works are lost. Several views of him painting Alexander the Great’s former mistress Campaspe, and an elaborate allegory of Calumny by Botticelli.

January 30, 2026 General, Life, Painting

More malware from Google search

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Follow a sponsored result in Google to a page in Medium that provides a Terminal command that you will live to regret. And what is Marek’s disease?

January 30, 2026 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Historical context 1644-1674

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From the end of the Thirty Years’ War, settlement of Cape Colony, the United East India Company as the largest in the world with a private army of 10,000, Vermeer’s Milkmaid, to invasion by France and decline in 1672.

January 29, 2026 General, Life, Painting

How does an Apple silicon Mac tell the time?

Apple silicon Macs may not obtain an external reference time for many seconds after starting up. Do they adjust their local clock over that period, and if so, against what reference?

January 29, 2026 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Historical context 1565-1643

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From the start of the Eighty Years’ War with Habsburg Spain, through the Union of Utrecht, foundation of the East India Company, tulip mania, and abundant Rembrandts.

January 28, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Clean install macOS

First decide what you want to ‘clean’: the Data or System volume, or firmware? Then consider the methods of choice to perform that. Explained for Intel and Apple silicon Macs.

January 28, 2026 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Monotypes

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Take a flat metal plate and paint on it using gouache or oils, then impress it onto a sheet of paper, and apply soft pastel to bring out the colour. That’s a painted monotype print.

January 27, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Should you restart or cold boot?

You’re sometimes advised to shut your Mac down, wait a while, and start it up again, instead of restarting it. Are they different, and if so when should you use them?

January 27, 2026 Macs, Technology

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