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How disk images can become sparse files

Read-write and VM disk images are created and maintained differently, but they can both be APFS sparse files. Explanation of their creation and maintenance.

April 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 204 Triptychs B

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More secular stories from Belgian coal mines, the Kalevala, Nabi public gardens, family life, to the 12 panels of the Ghent Altarpiece and Japanese woodblock prints.

April 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

An overview of app extensions and plugins in macOS Sequoia

Detailed listings of which appex and plugin types are managed by System Settings, PlugInKit, and beyond. Even the terms used aren’t consistent.

April 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

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 […]

April 22, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading Visual Art: 203 Triptychs A

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Three panels, hinged together, first for an altarpiece, later for secular narratives. Examples from 1420, through those of Bosch, to the Eve of St Agnes by Arthur Hughes.

April 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Why some apps launch very slowly

Opening Pages can take several seconds, and other apps can hang around for 30 seconds before they’re ready to use. Is it XProtect, online certificate checks, or what?

April 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 67 Circe and her swine

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Ulysses visits Circe’s island, where his crew are turned into swine. When she tries to do the same with him, he refuses. They marry and spend a year together.

April 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 304

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 304. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Glance […]

April 21, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

The perils of virtualisation on M4 Macs

In a VM hosted on an M4, upgrading 14.7.5 to 15.4.1 took an 8.7 GB download and worked. From 15.1 to 15.4.1 took over 15 GB and failed with a kernel panic.

April 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Easter Paintings: 3 The Resurrection

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The harrowing of Hell, and the Resurrection in the paintings of William Blake, Jan Brueghel the Elder, William Holman Hunt, and others.

April 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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