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LaunchServices problems and Ventura

Using lsregister to clean up the Open With menu only works temporarily, and it’s populated by apps found anywhere local to your Mac. That’s not good for VMs sharing the Applications folder.

October 14, 2023 Macs, Technology

Painting on the edge: Depth of field

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Photographic lenses introduced depth of field effects, something not normally seen in normal human vision. A few paintings followed photographs.

October 13, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Are TextEdit and QuickLook still getting Dark Mode wrong?

User content shouldn’t have its colours changed according to the appearance mode. So why do TextEdit and QuickLook thumbnails change custom text colours?

October 13, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version […]

October 12, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

High: Andes

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Following the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt’s expedition of 1802, it was Frederic Edwin Church who painted this huge mountain range, and became famous as a result.

October 12, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reversing Spotlight search with a second beta of Spotcord

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Second beta adds support for all metadata keys, has an extensive Help book, and saves results in a text file. Discover the keywords you can search for.

October 12, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 79 Pigs and swineherds

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Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, Gadarene swine, Sant Anthony, and in portraits: everything to see about pigs and their swineherds.

October 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

LaunchServices problems in Sonoma 14.0

Odd problems with Sonoma: every old app now listed in the Open With popup menu in the Finder, and lsregister that reports errors, and gets System Settings into trouble.

October 11, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 78 Shepherds and sheep

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The Corydon Shepherd, those attending the Nativity, the Good Shepherd, Poussin’s flocks, Millet’s social realism, and Pissarro’s epitaphs.

October 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

How to check and repair storage in Disk Utility

How to use First Aid in Disk Utility to check and repair APFS storage, whether it’s part of your boot disk, or general storage.

October 10, 2023 Macs, Technology

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