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A brief history of hardware epidemics

Capacitors that overheated, leaked, or even caught fire. Lead-free solder that couldn’t survive being heated and cooled repeatedly. Butterfly keyboards that didn’t work.

June 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1909-1911

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Homeric Laughter at Venus and Mars caught together, birthday paintings, an unusual portrait of a merchant of wild animals, and more.

June 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Boot disk structure in macOS, iOS and iPadOS, and AI cryptexes

There are substantial differences in the structure of the internal disks in macOS, iPadOS and iOS, as shown here. And there are at least 24 cryptexes now used to support AI.

June 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: Summary and contents parts 1-18

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Summary and contents of the first 19 articles, covering the origin of the world, the great flood, fall of PhaΓ«thon, rape of Europa, the fall of Thebes, and more.

June 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

The future of SilentKnight, and updates to XProCheck and LogUI

With macOS support for Intel Macs coming to an end with Tahoe, it’s time to reconsider the role of SilentKnight in the future. Plus two more updates.

June 19, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Interiors by Design: British Music Halls

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Paintings by Walter Sickert and Spencer Gore of the inside of music halls between 1888-1914, where ordinary people went for entertainment.

June 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Updates for SilentKnight, Mints and SystHist

Although primarily for compatibility with Tahoe, these include a general refresh and are recommended for all versions of macOS from Big Sur onwards.

June 18, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

June 17, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading Visual Art: 217 Umbrellas in the rain

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In narrative, including Degas’ ‘Waiting’, as a sign of wind, as an arc of colour, or simply to tell the viewer that it’s raining.

June 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

When and how should you run First Aid in Disk Utility?

Should you run First Aid on your Data volume before updating macOS, or as routine housekeeping? And how should you run it?

June 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

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