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Last Week on My Mac: Spotlight sorcery

macOS gained Live Text and Visual Look Up when Apple declared its intent to check our images. Both are used in Spotlight’s indexes, but their function seems unreliable and highly variable.

August 10, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painting the summer storm 1

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Paintings of summer storms from the dawn of landscape art and Giorgione, through Poussin and Vernet, to Palmer and Constable.

August 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 320

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

August 9, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of PDF on the Mac

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Adobe’s Carousel reader came in 1993, and in Mac OS X PDF was built into its Quartz graphics. That enabled Preview to become the claimed ‘fastest PDF viewer on the planet’.

August 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 221 Club and skin B

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While other uncouth figures fought with their clubs, animal skins appealed to a different group, as John Godward’s beauties draped their bodies on them.

August 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

macOS Sequoia end of cycle report

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How frequent and large were macOS Sequoia’s updates? How has it grown in total system bundles and apps? Which categories have grown most?

August 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 220 Club and skin A

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That well-muscled man brandishing a large olive-wood club and wearing a lion-skin can only be the ultimate high-testosterone uncouth hero, Hercules.

August 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What does RunningBoard do? 5 Log insights

How to discover which apps were launched, which appexes were run, and life cycle events for executable bundles, and map waypoints and events in the log.

August 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Origins

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The Renaissance provided the tools of realist painting, but remained largely bound to religious and mythical motifs. Seventy years later, many new genres had appeared.

August 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Is your Mac’s firmware up to date?

Gives the latest firmware versions for all Macs running the most recent supported version of macOS, and which are expected to change in the future.

August 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

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