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Important changes to Recovery mode

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There are now three different Recovery modes. This explains which to use, and provides a flowchart to help you work out how best to reinstall in them.

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Reinstalling macOS changed with 10.12.4

Over a month after the release of macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Apple quietly let slip the news that it […]

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

How macOS manages tasks on cores: a draft

Trying to get a more coherent overview of the different paths to concurrent, asynchronous, and background task management in macOS. Draft for discussion.

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

More Scripting in Swift: Styling Attributed Text

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Structuring, parsing, and styling text is not difficult when you use Swift 3 as your scripting language.

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

macOS Sierra 10.12.5 update released (updated)

Apple has released macOS Sierra 10.12.5 update. Reported improvements and fixes include: fixes audio stutter on some USB […]

May 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

Chinese Narrative Painting: Shanglin Park

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A truly beautiful hand scroll in blue-green style, which tells the story of an ancient ode using exquisite images.

May 15, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

How macOS runs background activities: 3 When things go wrong

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When part of the mechanism which schedules and dispatches Time Machine backups fails, those backups become irregular. Here it is shown in a clear diagram.

May 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

Rubens’ Peace and War: 2 The cost of war

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With no diplomatic mission to accomplish, and an open commission, Rubens was free to express his experience of war.

May 14, 2017 General, Life, Painting

How macOS runs background activities: 2 Time Machine backups

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Diagrams how a routine Time Machine backup is scheduled and dispatched using CTS and DAS.

May 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Rubens’ Peace and War: 1 Fighting the peace

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When you’re a great narrative painter and a diplomat, one painting might be all that is needed to secure a peace treaty.

May 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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