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Apple has pushed silent updates to Gatekeeper and MRT data

Apple has pushed out silent updates to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 115, and to MRT […]

July 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to FileVault

How FileVault encryption failed, apparently damaging an SSD with less than 250 hours use. And what I did to fix it.

July 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Tom Thomson: Canada from a Canoe, 1905-1914

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The first in a series of articles commemorating the centenary of his death. His oil sketches are simply brilliant.

June 30, 2017 General, Painting

I can’t log in: what to do when you forget your password, or its doesn’t work

You suddenly can’t remember your password, or your Mac won’t accept what you think is your password. What do you do next?

June 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Figures in a Landscape: 8 Nicolas Poussin

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Would such a great narrative painter really paint landscapes which lack a story?

June 29, 2017 General, Painting

Completing and using a Swift Scrapbook in Tinderbox

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The code scrapbook is finished, and has now produced its first set of articles. Five articles in around ten minutes seems pretty impressive to me.

June 29, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Totems and trees: Emily Carr’s paintings, 1937-1945

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In her final years, she concentrated on her writing. But her painting continued to innovate, and she produced some of her finest work, shown here.

June 28, 2017 General, Painting

Swift Snippets 5: Bundles, Process, Background activity, Shell commands

Calling shell commands, including with privileges, NSBackgroundActivity, XPC Activity, and writing shell commands in Swift.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Swift Snippets 4: Numbers, Dates, Unified log, Objective-C

Dates with (NS)Date and DateFormatter, writing messages to Sierra’s unified log, and working with old Objective-C interfaces.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Swift Snippets 3: Preference Files, Property Lists, JSON

Reading and writing preference files, storing data in property list files, and reading JSON data.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

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