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Last Week on My Mac: Search and you’ll find

A meta-search for Apple’s patents on search, and turning the incessant log chatter of RunningBoard to our advantage in following uninstrumented apps.

August 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

Blue from over the sea: ultramarine

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First imported through Venice by 1300, it became more precious than gold until it could be made synthetically from 1830. The queen of pigments.

August 2, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 319

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

August 2, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A more detailed history of Spotlight

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Supported by some of the many patents awarded to Apple’s engineers, a year-by-year account of the development of Spotlight from 1994 to 2019.

August 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Introduction

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In 1579, 7 of the more northerly provinces in the Low Countries formed the Dutch Republic. That soon prospered from its international trade, and saw the creation of millions of paintings that changed European art.

August 1, 2025 General, Life, Painting

It’s time to pick your next version of macOS

Coming next month should be macOS Tahoe, security updates for Sequoia and Sonoma, but we’ve probably seen the last of support for Ventura. Which macOS will your Mac be running?

August 1, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of stave churches

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They were once common across northern Europe, now only 31 remain. JC Dahl salvaged one and painted, and Harriet Backer painted the unique interior of another.

July 31, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What does RunningBoard do? 4 Assertions

How a close reading of the assertions acquired by RunningBoard can tell you a great deal about the life cycle of an app.

July 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: All in the caption

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Painting captions give information you’d never get from looking at an image, and that in turn tells you even more. This series looks beyond mere images at the media behind them.

July 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

A deeper dive into Spotlight indexes

Apple’s several patents cast new light on how Spotlight indexes the metadata and contents of local files, and why mds and other processes need to reindex periodically.

July 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

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