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When you should use Safe Mode, and what it does

Claimed to block 3rd-party extensions and customisations from loading, check the startup disk, and to clear some system caches. When and why should you use it?

March 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Tiles

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Blue-on-white Delft tiles in paintings of Vermeer, and those in the 19th century who recreated period interiors, including Laura Alma-Tadema.

March 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

LogUI log browser build 31 has better filters

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This new build checks that it can get log extracts, and has a wider range of filters you can use to select which entries it fetches and displays.

March 20, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading Visual Art: 199 Physical ecstasy

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Ariadne, Bacchantes, Sappho, Queen Guinevere, Salome and Judith in ecstasy, in paintings by Lovis Corinth, David, Rossetti, Gustav Klimt and others.

March 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What happened to macOS in last week’s updates?

T2 Macs updated to 15.3.2 should have a newer firmware version than those who installed the Safari update for Sonoma or Ventura, but what is 14.7.5 and 13.7.5? Time to deconfuse.

March 19, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading Visual Art: 198 Religious ecstasy

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Mary Magdalene, Saint Paul, Saint Cecilia, Joan of Arc in paintings by Elisabetta Sirani, Artemisia Gentileschi, Raphael, Annie Swynnerton and others.

March 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Take control of disks using APFS

Speed up your hard disk by partitioning it so that its innermost 20% remains unused. Reserve space for the SLC write cache on an SSD by limiting the size of volumes.

March 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 62 Aeneas flees Troy

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Aeneas and his family flee the burning city of Troy, losing his wife on the way. They sail to Delos, where they see the trees that Latona gripped when giving birth to Apollo and Diana.

March 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 299

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 299. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Lucida […]

March 17, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Why SSDs slow down, and how to avoid it

Covering thermal throttling, extended coverage of SLC write cache depletion and how long it takes to empty the cache, Trimming, and more.

March 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

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