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Strolling the Valèncian shore with Sorolla’s paintings: 1 Fishermen

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Sorolla’s paintings through the 1890s showed the hard and dangerous lives of the fishermen who worked from the beaches of València.

March 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 298

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Causing to […]

March 8, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of system preferences and settings

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From System 7’s Control Panels, through Mac OS X’s System Prefs, then System Preferences. And what happened in Ventura.

March 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: 7 Women’s work

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Laundresses who collect clothes and linen from homes, launder and press them, and return them for a pittance. Seamstresses working long hours with an uncertain future.

March 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Managing access to location information

These work differently from other privacy controls, and are required for Find My… and Activation Lock. There are some catches too, and no command tool to help.

March 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Clocks

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Small clocks inside glass bell cases on the mantelpiece, and longcase clocks ticking away the time as items of furniture. But these are rare examples until the 20th century.

March 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What has happened to XProtect in Sequoia?

Getting XProtect data to update in Sequoia has been an adventure. The latest update to 5289 seems to have changed the rules again. Here’s how it works, and how you can get updated.

March 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 196 Hats of fashion

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Fashionable hats and milliners by Georges Clairin, Edgar Degas, Jean Béraud, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot and Henri Gervex.

March 5, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Should you pay a premium price for a bigger internal SSD?

You could save hundreds of $/€/£ buying a Mac with a smaller internal SSD. Is that a good economy, or will you come to regret it? Here are the pros and cons.

March 5, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5289, […]

March 4, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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