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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 322

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 322. Here are my solutions to them. 1: It’s […]

August 25, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

SpotTest 1.1 has search scopes for volumes

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This can now test and search any regular volume that’s connected to your Mac and mounted in /Volumes, using either NSMetadataQuery in the API, or mdfind instead.

August 25, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Painting the Grain Harvest: Sheaves, stooks and threshing

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The harvest painted by Anna Ancher, Lhermitte, Adrian Stokes, Nikolai Astrup, John Linnell, Félix Vallotton, PS Krøyer, Gérôme, and others.

August 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Bling or Cybertruck window?

Tahoe is overwhelmingly about its human interface. It still has problems in providing reliable contrast between elements and tools in controls and windows contents, and sameness across platforms.

August 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painting the Grain Harvest: Cutting

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Cutting the grain crop, in paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Samuel Palmer, John Linnell, Jean-François Millet, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Mykola Pymonenko and others.

August 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 322

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

August 23, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of SIP

It provided 3 protections when introduced in El Capitan in 2015, and has now grown extensively to cover NVRAM, kernel boot arguments, authentication of root, and even malware scans.

August 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 223 Armour B

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Every painter should have a suit of armour hanging in their studio, and those of German Romantics, Pre-Raphaelites and others, of Don Quixote.

August 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What to do when there’s something fundamentally wrong with an Apple silicon Mac

How to check there’s no hardware problem, then use Restore in DFU mode to completely wipe internal storage, including firmware, and reset the NVRAM.

August 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 222 Armour A

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Worn by Mars, Athena/Minerva and Bellona, it also featured in the war against Troy. It was worn by Joan of Arc, and by Lovis Corinth too.

August 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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