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Which password? When to enter your user password, and when to use your Apple ID

Have you ever entered the password for your Mac instead of that for your Apple ID? This should help make it clearer which you need to use.

December 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Another Year of the Mighty Falling

They fell in 2012, just as they did in 2015. But is Apple still innovating enough?

December 26, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Steam leaked, servers shut down

A major problem with Valve’s Steam games servers has apparently resulted in those servers being shut down today, […]

December 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Files opened in the wrong app

When I double-click on an EPS file, it always opens in Adobe Photoshop. Why?

December 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

Snow of winter past

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No snow here this Christmas, just lots of wind. But here are some seasonal images.

December 25, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Q&A: Deepest sleep

When I leave my iMac to go to sleep, it cannot be woken and seems to have shut down. Is this a fault?

December 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Botticelli’s unique nativity

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His “Mystic Nativity” is a real mystery painting. Here some of its puzzles are explained.

December 24, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Q&A: Flying cursors

The cursor keeps flying off randomly on the screen, despite changing mouse, keyboard, and even Mac. Why?

December 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

Storyspace 3: building an interactive timeline

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It is straightforward to use Storyspace’s Map view for graphical layouts such as a timeline.

December 23, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Creating a Chinese font: a long passion

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Working with Latin fonts is difficult enough, but how about designing Chinese ones?

December 23, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

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