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Last Week on My Mac: Knowing your limitations

Know yourself, including your methods and their limitations; nothing to excess, and certainty brings insanity: the maxims for those who study macOS.

January 29, 2023 Macs, Technology

macOS virtualisation refactored and sandboxed in Viable updates

Refactored for a smoother experience and with control over shared folders, Viable beta 7 now has a sandboxed and locked-down sibling ViableS, ideal for research.

December 28, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Whatever happened to Exposure Notifications?

Last April, Apple and Google surprised the world by collaborating on features to turn our smartphones into contact tracing systems. How did that work out then?

March 21, 2021 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Some selected reading about Covid-19 and pandemics

Papers, books and websites which you may find informative about controversial aspects of Covid-19 and its prevention.

October 17, 2020 General, Life, Technology

Technology is not turning the young into puddings

Should we worry about claimed adverse effects of smartphones on book reading? And who suffers most if we close libraries?

April 12, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Is there anyone here who hacks cars?

76% of the security vulnerabilities fixed in OS X 10.11.1 were discovered by security researchers outside Apple. Should we therefore ban such research?

October 23, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

The making of “From silk to canvas”

When writing for this blog is far tougher than performing a tracheotomy.

August 17, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Apple HealthKit and ResearchKit

One of my longstanding criticisms of Apple corporate has been its lack of philanthropy. I am delighted, and […]

March 9, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Wanted: synaesthetes for research project

Are you a synaesthete – someone who experiences sensations in a different sense when experiencing other sensory modalities? […]

January 29, 2015 General, Language, Painting
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