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Saturday Mac riddles 206

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Image library replaced […]

June 3, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Between Undo and backups: document versions

Now supported by many apps, document versions are a free and valuable feature in macOS. Here’s a summary of its features and how to get most from it.

June 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: 3 Massacre at Chios

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Two major works showing the plight of Greeks during their war of independence, first signs of Orientalism, and several literary narratives.

June 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Customising metadata display in the Finder

Where to look for file metadata in the Finder, and how you can customise it, in spite of its apparent confusion. And how APFS takes care of extended attributes for you.

June 2, 2023 Macs, Technology

Hard reality: 7 Strange landscapes

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Hodler’s Parallelist paintings, and more than 30 of the paintings of Paul Cézanne depart from the basic optical principles of reflections. Why?

June 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

How should we check the integrity of important files?

What are the performance differences between SHA-256 and 512? What throughput can you expect when checking hashes? And how to correct errors detected?

June 1, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 58 Sickles

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A symbol of the harvest with Ceres, a weapon for Bacchantes, the sign of the Divine Reaper Saturn, used by Iris to cut locks of hair, and for cutting the cereal crop.

May 31, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ghosts in the machine: .DS_Store files

Introduced in the Finder in Mac OS X, these hidden and invisible files have been quietly causing havoc with backups, revision control systems, and more.

May 31, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Painters: Viktor Zarubin

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Among 15 works shown here are two of Sviatohirsk Monastery, destroyed by Bolsheviks after October Revolution of 1917, and shelled into ruins in 2022.

May 30, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Apple’s big test of data integrity

Since November 2020, every T2 and Apple silicon Mac that has booted Big Sur or later in Full Security mode has check the integrity of its 9 GB SSV.

May 30, 2023 Macs, Technology

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