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Last Week on My Mac: Knowing your limitations

Know yourself, including your methods and their limitations; nothing to excess, and certainty brings insanity: the maxims for those who study macOS.

January 29, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Swiss Lakes: Geneva

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From Turner, through Calame, John Ferguson Weir, and the last paintings of Gustave Courbet in exile, to Ferdinand Hodler.

January 28, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 188

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: His evolution was […]

January 28, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Log literacy: an essential skill for advanced users

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The only place you’re likely to find that crucial piece of information about outgoing connections, bugs or problems is the log. How to get started.

January 28, 2023 Macs, Technology

When history is fiction: painted inventions of Pierre Guérin

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The fictional Marcus Sextus, Napoleon pardoning the rebels of Cairo, and Narcissus where he shouldn’t be: disinformation in history painting.

January 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

How QuickLook Preview doesn’t tell Apple about images

A thorough look at Live Text, and why it might need to connect to Apple’s servers. Could it be sending image identifiers or text extracted from your local images?

January 27, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian painters: Kyriak Kostandi

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After his training, he returned to the city of Odesa to paint and teach others, and became a key figure in the city’s arts into the 20th century.

January 26, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Do Thunderbolt hubs impair performance?

Do fast Thunderbolt SSDs slow down when connected via a Thunderbolt hub? How fast are they when reading at the same time? Does connecting a display affect them?

January 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 30 Frozen motion and blur

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Perception changed with photography, and we came to interpret blur, lines and other devices as indicating motion.

January 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Curious bugs in Help Viewer and Stage Manager

Not only do Help windows work differently on Intel and Apple silicon Macs, but on the latter they can bring Stage Manager to a grinding halt.

January 25, 2023 Macs, Technology

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