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Updated CPU core frequencies for all current Apple silicon Macs

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How operating frequencies of CPU cores used by the latest base M5 chip compare with those from previous families in the M series, and what that means. Complete with updated tables for all current chips.

October 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Jacob van Ruisdael’s trees

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Active in Haarlem and Amsterdam during and after Poussin’s later years, his depiction of trees is outstanding, and his old oaks are lifelike.

October 29, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Disentangling timestamps with Dropera 2

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Study how the four key timestamps of a file change when you create, edit, preview the file, using Dropera.

October 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Soot and milk

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Ink, soot suspended in water, making the transition from drawings into paintings. The secret of shellac. Casein, originally from sour milk, as a binder in some vast murals.

October 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Updating CPU frequencies for Apple silicon Macs

A call for help: can you help complete this table of all the CPU core frequencies of M-series chips? M3 Ultra and M5 values are requested, please.

October 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 14 Count Ugolino

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The horrific story of a count locked away to starve to death, who turned to cannibalism. How that came to be used falsely in Lavater’s physiognomy.

October 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 331

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 331. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]

October 27, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Should you repair permissions?

First we repaired disk permissions, until SIP made that impossible. Then we reset user permissions until Apple withdrew that advice. Next we ran repairHomePermissions in Recovery. Should you still use that?

October 27, 2025 Macs, Technology

Louveciennes landscapes: After the war

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After the Paris Commune, Pissarro returned to discover most of his life’s work had been destroyed, but he and Sisley continued to paint in Louveciennes and its surrounds.

October 26, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Why Spotlight can’t find some files

In macOS Mojave, Apple changed the way that Spotlight indexes the contents of plain text files. That introduced a bug that prevents indexing of any of the contents of files starting with certain characters. For many Macs, that bug won’t ever be fixed.

October 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

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