Thumbs up or down in the gladiatorial arena, French history, the leading general in the Greek War of Independence, and the Wailing Wall. | Continue reading
From late 2012 until 2021, Apple sold many iMacs and Mac minis with Fusion Drives. Did they really offer the best of both worlds, and why have they gone now? | Continue reading
Painted either from a kayak or canoe, or dependent on gaining access using one. Biard, Frances Anne Hopkins, and the great Tom Thomson. | Continue reading
XProtect 2192 contains no less than 74 new rules to detect just one type of malicious software: Adload. What's behind this broadside? | Continue reading
A younger successor to Caspar David Friedrich, and prominent member of the Düsseldorf School, he was both a Romantic and an influence on the Hudson River School. | Continue reading
Reading the log in macOS isn't easy, but here ten systems where it's the only way to discover and address problems, and a bonus 11th. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 131, […] | Continue reading
European grey herons, seen in paintings by Aelbert Cuyp, Hans Thoma, Daubigny, Frédéric Bazille, Alfred Sisley and others. | Continue reading
Swift/SwiftUI source code to accompany article on adding a PDF Help file to a SwiftUI app for macOS. | Continue reading
An explanation of how to implement the Help command, and how to use that to display a PDF document in a SwiftUI View. | Continue reading
The stories of Venus and Mars, caught in bed together by her husband Vulcan, and the unrequited loves of Leucothoë and Clytie for the Sun. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 252. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Waterproof […] | Continue reading
This reference covers fsck_apfs, diskutil information, diskutil apfs, conversion of HFS+ to APFS, mount_apfs, and newfs_apfs. | Continue reading
Back to the Baltic coast, with landscape paintings by Lovis Corinth, Laurits Andersen Ring, Ants Laikma, and Karl Isakson. | Continue reading
If you reported to Apple Support a failed attempt to remediate malware, would you expect to be told never to look in the log, and that the report must be false because macOS didn't show a dialog? | Continue reading
A trip to the Baltic coast, with Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Eugen Bracht, Eugen Dücker, and Carl Irmer's landscape paintings. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Waterproof to […] | Continue reading
How you can use regexes to make search more powerful and reduce the number of irrelevant entries it returns. | Continue reading
Three paintings about prostitution, a reception for Napoleon III, Cleopatra smuggled in a carpet, the Crucifixion, Napoleon I in Egypt, and a grim execution. | Continue reading
Do external SSDs draw so much power that they're likely to exceed that available from Thunderbolt or USB4? What would the consequences be in terms of heat? | Continue reading
In the late 19th century, it evolved from classical painting dating back to the 1400s, to Barbizon School and Impressionism, with some traditional artists continuing. | Continue reading
How to set up your own styles in TextEdit, DelightEd or another editor using macOS's features. Use them to make laying out styled text easier and more powerful. | Continue reading
After training in Copenhagen, he became involved in the Romantic Movement, developed his own colour theory, but died at the age of only 33. | Continue reading
Source code for the main article about SwiftUI on macOS, to be read alongside that article. | Continue reading
Apple advises that SwiftUI apps for macOS avoid using AppDelegate. How can you substitute initial app setup, and cleaning up before an app quits using just SwiftUI? | Continue reading
The humble beast of burden, carrying drunken kings, Mary and the infant Jesus, the Good Samaritan, Sancho Panza, and young lambs. | Continue reading
Quantum computers are coming, and with them the likelihood they can break today's encryption methods. Prepare now against the future, using iMessage's latest features. | Continue reading
The earliest known story in the Western canon to end with the suicide of frustrated lovers, it was the precursor to Romeo and Juliet, and extensively depicted. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 251. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Obtained […] | Continue reading
Overview of clone files, dataless files, sparse files, symbolic links, and firmlinks, and how used and free space is accounted for in APFS. | Continue reading
Perhaps she wasn't as much abducted as seduced by Paris, but after he's killed in the war, she plays a crucial final role in the destruction of Troy. | Continue reading
Why an Intel Mac's up to 40 Gb/s from Thunderbolt 3 is less than an Apple silicon Mac's up to 40 Gb/s from USB4, and how you can benefit from it. | Continue reading
Daughter of the King of Sparta, abducted as a child by Theseus, rescued by her brothers, married to the King of Sparta, then given as a bribe in a divine beauty contest. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Obtained by […] | Continue reading
Nearly 20 years old now, the Dictionary app seems to be slowly slipping into oblivion. It still provides access to reputable sources and Wikipedia. | Continue reading
Orientalism, a duel in fancy dress, gladiators in the Colosseum, the assassination of Julius Caesar, and the cynic Diogenes. | Continue reading
Who to believe and what to do about warnings apparently sent by Apple, particularly its new threat notifications. | Continue reading
From the snowy landscape of Brueghel's Hunters to Monet's Magpie, with Pissarro, Signac, Caillebotte and others. | Continue reading
Keybags, wrapping keys, VEKs and KEKs all explained. Did you realise how Recovery Keys are implemented? Or how the SSV protects against read errors? | Continue reading
A series of barren trees in the snow, with ancient stone tombs and plenty of crows, Nordic ports by moonlight, ending with a burning windmill. | Continue reading
Details of the chain of information, from the UTI of the file to be opened, through LaunchServices' database of document types. How to deal with problems. | Continue reading
The humble mouse seen in Millais' portrait of Cinderella, Klimt's Fable, still life paintings, and an illustration by the artist who died with Captain Scott. | Continue reading
This has become more complex with increasingly popular hybrid drives that support USB4/Thunderbolt and fall back to USB 3.x. | Continue reading
Pentheus pours scorn on the cult of the new god Bacchus, son of Semele. When interrupts revels, he is torn apart by his own mother and aunts, as foretold by Tiresias. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 250. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Roman […] | Continue reading
What's in an APFS snapshot, and how the stages in its life-cycle work, from creation, through mounting and unmounting, to deletion and cleanup. | Continue reading
Concluded with paintings from Willard Metcalf, Pierre Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Nikolai Astrup, Paul Nash and others. | Continue reading
SwiftUI is almost five years old. Following experience porting an AppKit app for macOS to SwiftUI, it still has a long way to go. Here's the current state of play. | Continue reading