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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 34

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 34. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sidecar […]

February 17, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Time Machine 14: Diagnosing and working around slow backups

How can you tell what causing a backup to run so slowly? If it is this bug, what can you do about it? A plain user’s guide.

February 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Faithful Friends: Dogs in paintings

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Loyal to their master or mistress, often to the point of self-sacrifice. Paintings by Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velรกzquez, Courbet and Bonnard.

February 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Duff disk or normal behaviour?

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Surely these problems with Time Machine are old hat and not news? Or are they simply errors occurring with disks or the file system?

February 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

Faithful Friends: Cats in paintings

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Independent and aloof, cats train their humans and think that they’re still large and ferocious. Paintings from Carpaccio to Bonnard.

February 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 34

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

February 15, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Why privileged commands may never be allowed

Running an AppleScript which tries to run a shell command with root privileges can fail. Here’s why, and what we can’t do about it.

February 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

Painting in 4 dimensions: Renaissance Passions

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Telling a more complex story such as the Passion is more demanding. This traces how it broke out of frames, ultimately into Tintoretto’s masterpiece.

February 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

How to keep, or lose, a document’s previous versions

Document versions can be invaluable, being between Undo and your backups. But they’re also easy to lose. Here’s how to keep them.

February 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

Painting in 4 dimensions: the Brancacci Chapel frescoes

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Four masterly paintings telling stories. Painted by 3 different hands, each works in 4 dimensions thanks to narrative devices, as explained here.

February 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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