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A walk in the parks of London and Paris

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Paintings by West, Linnell, De Nittis, Fanner, Maitland, Manet, Menzel, Prendergast and Pissarro, of London’s Royal Parks, and the Tuileries in Paris.

May 2, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 358

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

May 2, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

Latest Geekbench performance figures for macOS VMs, and testing of how few cores and how little memory is really needed: could you run a macOS VM usefully on a MacBook Neo?

May 2, 2026 Macs, Technology

Naturalists: Photography

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How optical effects familiar from photography became incorporated into Naturalist paintings, and major painters adopted photography as an art form.

May 1, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Use Finder tags for categories

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A simple and accessible way of categorising folders, they’re stored as extended attributes, and robust. They work best with up to 7 categories, but can confuse with many different text labels.

May 1, 2026 Macs, Technology

On Reflection: The Venus Effect

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When you see the same face in a mirror that you presume that figure can also see, despite that being optically impossible. An exploration.

April 30, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Control what gets written to the log

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Two common problems with log: all the censored contents, which can make them meaningless, and the sheer number of entries. How to use logging preferences to tackle them.

April 30, 2026 Macs, Technology

Medium and message: Tapestry

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Raphael’s ten tapestries for the walls of the Sistine Chapel, many cartoons painted by Francisco Goya for the Royal Factory in Santa Bárbara, paintings by Edward Burne-Jones for tapestries woven for William Morris, and more.

April 29, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs is different

Virtualising macOS, Linux and Windows on Intel Macs has been relatively straightforward, and device support left to the developer. That won’t work for Apple silicon Macs. This explains what happens, its strengths and limitations as a result.

April 29, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5341; the […]

April 28, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

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