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It’s all about reliability and contingency

Apple silicon Macs are designed and built for reliability. Using old techniques to safeguard from disaster isn’t wise: they need to be reappraised, and contingencies planned accordingly.

November 11, 2023 Macs, Technology

Painting on the edge: How do you blur an edge?

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Painting with an edge hierarchy requires fine control over paint viscosity and drying time, and a deep understanding of technique.

November 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine in Sonoma: How to restore from a backup

How should you restore a whole volume, or an old version of a document to a different folder? Includes details of backup structure.

November 10, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect

Apple has overnight released an update to XProtect for all macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it […]

November 10, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

High: Ascent

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An illustrated account of the 14th successful ascent of Mont Blanc, complete with champagne and red wine, and two oil paintings of other climbs.

November 9, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Should you make an emergency disk for an Apple silicon Mac?

Many of us keep an emergency external drive at the ready by our Mac, in case we need to use it to recover from problems. What’s the equivalent for Apple silicon?

November 9, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 86 Ravens and crows B

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Waiting the knight’s end, watching a sorceress, flying over a wheat field, or in front of a sleigh. Wherever they go they seem sinister.

November 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Metamer 1.5 fixes a bug

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Version 1.5 of this metadata editor fixes a bug causing a spurious editor when Autosave is enabled.

November 8, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine in Sonoma: How to check backing up

How to use the Time Machine log extract in Mints to check whether its backups are working normally, and what are expected errors.

November 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released Sonoma 14.1.1 update

Apple has just released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.1.1, and macOS Ventura 13.6.2 for “MacBook […]

November 7, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

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