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Apple has just released an update to XProtect

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version 2169. […]

July 6, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: 8 Ophelia and histories

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Hamlet, including the first visualisation of Ophelia’s death; Christopher Columbus, Medea about to kill her sons, and shipwreck survivors in a small boat.

July 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

How to get the right app to open a document and fix LaunchServices problems

What if, when you double-click a document, the wrong app tries to open it, or maybe the right app but wrong version? Includes command tool use.

July 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 63 What’s drawing that chariot?

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Normally drawn by 2-4 horses, you can sometimes identify deities by the creatures shown towing their chariot, from black horses to domestic cats.

July 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

How does Ventura check the security of known apps and command tools?

Ventura aims to improve app security by checking integrity of apps and command tools whenever they’re run. How can it do that without significant overhead?

July 5, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Painters: Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné

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Born in southern Ukraine, he trained first in Odesa, then went to St Petersburg briefly. In 1910, he moved to Paris, where he worked from 1925 until transported to Auschwitz in 1943.

July 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

How to diagnose and control login and background items

Login and Background Items are increasingly common, and can cause all sorts of problems. Diagnosing and fixing them is better in Ventura.

July 4, 2023 Macs, Technology

Trojan Epics: 19 Reclaiming the throne

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Odysseus meets with his son Telemachus, is almost revealed by his old nurse, then kills all the suitors before revealing himself to Penelope.

July 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 210

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 210. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sigrid […]

July 3, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

How to gain access to a locked Mac

What if you’ve forgotten your Mac’s password, or the secondhand Mac you bought expects you to enter one, or its owner has died?

July 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

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