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How to open a suspicious document or app

What can you do to protect your Mac when a stranger asks you to take a look at a document or app? Two alternatives for doing this is safety, rather than risk being victim to a phishing attack.

January 12, 2026 Macs, Technology

Paintings of human flight 2: Blériot to the Battle of Britain

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Louis Blériot’s flight across the Channel in 1909, biplanes in the air war in 1914-18, and the Battle of Britain seen from a distance in 1941.

January 11, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Does your laptop Mac get scanned for malware?

Do you check XProtect Remediator scans using XProCheck on your laptop Mac? How often are its scans run there, daily or erratically?

January 11, 2026 Macs, Technology

Paintings of human flight 1: before Blériot

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From earliest ascents in hot air balloons from 1783 onwards, their role in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, to the first airships and Wright style aircraft.

January 10, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 342

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

January 10, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Copy and paste, drag and drop

Two of the Mac’s defining features, how they differ, the roles of source and receiver apps, how they work, how transferable types can limit them, and their future in macOS.

January 10, 2026 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 240 Gallows

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Typically by a road junction outside a town, they are a grim reminder of the brutal consequences of even petty crimes, and significant to the reading of paintings shown.

January 9, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Hiding text in PDFs

A demonstration of three simple ways to add invisible text to a PDF that could be used to prompt AI how to review it. And a method of detection.

January 9, 2026 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Unique imagery of Domenicus van Wijnen

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At the end of the Golden Age, he specialised in painting the Dark Arts, with astrology, rejuvenation, witchcraft, and faerie allegories.

January 8, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Check Time Machine backups in macOS Sequoia and Tahoe

T2M2 is nearly 9 years old. Here’s a walk through its summary reports on Time Machine backups. and an outline of what you’ll see in its log extracts.

January 8, 2026 Macs, Technology

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