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Saturday Mac riddles 121

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: New business could […]

October 16, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: file types

Many think that a file’s type is determined by its extension. Although partly true, that’s indirect: it’s the UTI which sets the type, as explained here.

October 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 12 George Clausen

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From 1880, he painted in Naturalist style, then switched to Impressionism in the early 1890s. He finally embraced post-Impressionism in the 1920s.

October 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

MacSysAdmins presentation on Time Machine: slides

Complete slides analysing the history of Time Machine from first release to backing up to APFS in Big Sur, with detailed diagrams.

October 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: A life in paintings

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An overview of his major paintings from La Gloria in 1772 to experimental miniatures on ivory flakes in 1825.

October 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to export passwords and other secrets

So you want to try a 3rd party password manager, but use Safari as your browser. How do you import its stash of passwords, or keep an independent record of them?

October 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting the Merovingians: the bicentenary of Évariste Vital Luminais 2

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Two young men cast adrift on the River Seine, a king having his hair cut, and one of the finest and most haunting paintings of Psyche.

October 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Shortcuts: Automating the Mac

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October 1993: AppleScript for the Mac.
April 2005: Automator for the Mac.
September 2018: Shortcuts for iOS.
October 2021: Shortcuts for macOS.

October 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Landscape Composition: 6 Constable not copying

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Independent development of landscape as a genre in Britain, from Gainsborough to John Constable, and radical departure from tradition.

October 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Juggling with HFS+ and APFS partitions and volumes: a primer

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The differences between HFS+ and APFS volumes explored. What a container is, and how to add new HFS+ and APFS volumes to a disk.

October 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

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