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In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Barbizon

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After some early visits, young landscape painters started to visit the forest in 1829, and became the Barbizon School.

October 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 329

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

October 11, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: How is XProtect’s data updated?

Until Sequoia, it was simply downloaded and installed as any other software update. Since then it has changed frequently and its behaviour can now confuse.

October 11, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 230 Wolf

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Lycaon transformed into a wolf, the origin of later werewolves, the she-wolf who fed Romulus and Remus, a shepherd defending his flock, the wolf of Agubbio, the fable of the wolf and the lamb, and others.

October 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How to migrate macOS virtual machines

If your virtualiser allows you to run 2 macOS VMs at the same time, and to give them different MAC addresses, it’s easy to migrate from one to the other as explained here.

October 10, 2025 Macs, Technology

Christian Krohg painting social reality 4: 1898-1924

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Series showing the sailing of smaller vessels, and ship, then a further series of a model getting dressed and leaving the studio, and one last painting.

October 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What to do when your Mac can’t get to the login window

If you’re lucky, it should restart into Recovery Assistant. Otherwise advice on how to manage a boot loop or freeze, and how to disable 3rd party kernel extensions.

October 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5318. As usual, it doesn’t release […]

October 8, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

The Dutch Golden Age: Nocturnes

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Unusual paintings to add novelty to a collection, with maritimes, river views, cloudscapes, Amsterdam burning, and a couple of distinctive ‘negatives’.

October 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Resolve a file’s path from its inode number

First Aid in Disk Utility, or fsck_apfs in Terminal, have given warnings or errors with id numbers. How do you work out which file or folder that refers to?

October 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

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