Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs, painting, and more
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • M1 & M2 Macs
  • Mac Problems
  • Mac articles
  • Art
  • Macs
  • Painting

macOS 10.14

An atlas of recovery and boot volumes: High Sierra to Monterey

From High Sierra’s four-volume group to macOS 12 on Apple silicon with three containers and 11 volumes, and both regular and fallback Recovery volumes.

August 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is your Mac still secure from malware?

If you’re still running macOS Mojave or earlier, now is the time to take action to ensure your Mac maintains protection against malware.

August 7, 2022 Macs, Technology

Where we’re coming from: recent macOS

A brief summary of major new features in each version from El Capitan, some of their remaining problems, and future support.

June 7, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The pioneers are winning

If you believe that ‘the pioneers take the arrows, settlers take the land’, you need to reassess macOS now.

October 31, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Silence isn’t golden

As Apple silently drops Mojave’s support, it releases a security update to iOS 12, which was originally released a week before Mojave. And its entire AirPort range also seems unsupported now.

September 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

How long does Apple support macOS?

Unofficially, each major version of macOS gets a year’s full support, with bug and security fixes, then 2 years of security updates. Is that how it works?

September 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Biggest Sur by far

T T Read More

With Big Sur 11.6 reaching the end of the year’s cycle, it’s time to take stock of just how much we had to download to keep it up to date.

September 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has released standalone updaters for 10.14 and 10.15 Security Updates

Apple has today, 5 August, released standalone updaters for the last two Security Updates, which were first released […]

August 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Squeezing a thimbleful of update into a ten-gallon can

In macOS 11.5.1, Apple has squeezed a thimbleful of a patch into a ten-gallon can of update, more than 99% of which is overhead.

August 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Six years on from Yosemite to Big Sur

Haven’t Macs and macOS changed over the last six years? Here are fictitious diary entries to illustrate the deep-seated changes.

July 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous1 2 3 … 45 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Language
  • Tech
  • Life
  • General
  • Downloads
  • Mac problem-solving
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • Painting topics
  • Hieronymus Bosch
  • English language
  • LockRattler: 10.12 Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.13 High Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.11 El Capitan
  • Updates: El Capitan
  • Updates: Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur
  • LockRattler: 10.14 Mojave
  • SilentKnight, silnite, LockRattler, SystHist & Scrub
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • xattred, Metamer, Sandstrip & xattr tools
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • T2M2, Ulbow, Consolation and log utilities
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Taccy, Signet, Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma
  • Revisionist & DeepTools
  • Text Utilities: Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • PDF
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • LockRattler: 10.15 Catalina
  • Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • LockRattler: 11.0 Big Sur
  • M1 & M2 Macs
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • LockRattler: 12.x Monterey
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • LockRattler: 13.x Ventura
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Follow Following
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 3,138 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...