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December 2025

  1. The best of 2025’s paintings and articles 2
  2. ICYMI: a selection of the best Mac articles of 2025 – 1
  3. The best of 2025’s paintings and articles 1
  4. Data formats used in textClipping, webloc and mailloc files 1994-2025
  5. Commemorating the centenary of Félix Vallotton’s death
  6. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 340
  7. Is your XProtect stuck on 5324?
  8. Commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Jacques-Louis David 2: Revolutionary
  9. Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief
  10. Paintings of 1925: past and future
  11. Saturday Mac riddles 340
  12. Use and access clipping files: textClippings, weblocs, and maillocs
  13. Paintings of Christmas Trees
  14. Use Providable to check file histories
  15. Christmas paintings
  16. Inspect provenance and quarantine info in Providable, a Christmas present
  17. Commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Jacques-Louis David 1: Before the Revolution
  18. Explainer: UUIDs
  19. Paintings of 1925: people
  20. What blocks QuickLook from some directories?
  21. Painted stories of the Decameron: Ansaldo’s enchanted garden
  22. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 339
  23. When the Finder suffers premature ejection: a longstanding bug
  24. The Annunciation re-imagined 1850-1923
  25. Last Week on My Mac: Upgrades and the standard user
  26. The Annunciation imaged 1430-1680
  27. Saturday Mac riddles 339
  28. Explainer: Storage settings
  29. More than a Nabi 4: Félix Vallotton 1915-1925
  30. Standard users can upgrade macOS
  31. Reading Visual Art: 239 Bread as food
  32. How to recognise a genuine password request
  33. Paintings of 1925: landscapes
  34. Which extended attributes does macOS Tahoe preserve?
  35. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  36. The Dutch Golden Age: Troubled women of Paulus Bor
  37. Why was the 26.2 update much larger for some than others?
  38. Painted stories of the Decameron: Abducted brides
  39. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 338
  40. Why can’t my Mac get log entries or find XProtect scans?
  41. The Temptation of Saint Anthony 1660-1908
  42. Last Week on My Mac: How good is AI at solving Mac problems?
  43. The Temptation of Saint Anthony 1430-1650
  44. Saturday Mac riddles 338
  45. Explainer: WindowServer
  46. What has changed in macOS Tahoe 26.2?
  47. Apple has released macOS 26.2 Tahoe, and security updates to Sequoia 15.7.3 and Sonoma 14.8.3
  48. More than a Nabi 3: Félix Vallotton 1907-1914
  49. Did you know your photos are being syndicated?
  50. Reading Visual Art: 238 Bread of life
  51. How online search and AI can install malware
  52. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  53. The Dutch Golden Age: Stories
  54. Hunting extended attributes with an update to xattred
  55. Medium and Message: Oil on paper
  56. Create a bootable external disk for Apple silicon Macs in Tahoe
  57. Painted stories of the Decameron: The pot of basil
  58. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 337
  59. Who decides to quarantine files?
  60. Fog on the Thames 1900-1926
  61. Last Week on My Mac: Making better use of security extended attributes
  62. Fog on the Thames 1844-1899
  63. Saturday Mac riddles 337
  64. Explainer: Numbers
  65. More than a Nabi 2: Félix Vallotton 1900-1906
  66. Quarantine, MACL and provenance: what are they up to?
  67. Reading Visual Art: 237 Blacksmith
  68. The Anatomy of a macOS App
  69. The Dutch Golden Age: Jan Miense Molenaer
  70. Manage Login and Background items
  71. Medium and Message: On a cigar-box
  72. How to restart Spotlight, and why you might want to
  73. Painted stories of the Decameron: A father’s revenge
  74. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 336
  75. Textovert 1.1 can now convert PDF files to other formats

November 2025

  1. The earthly delights of Hieronymus Bosch 2
  2. Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
  3. The earthly delights of Hieronymus Bosch 1
  4. Saturday Mac riddles 336
  5. Explainer: PDF format
  6. More than a Nabi 1: Félix Vallotton 1885-99
  7. Explainer: Text formats
  8. The Dutch Golden Age: Aelbert Cuyp 2
  9. Podofyllin 1.5 beta can export PDF to RTF
  10. The Dutch Golden Age: Aelbert Cuyp 1
  11. Inside the Unified Log 8: Find the error
  12. Medium and Message: En plein air
  13. Textovert 1.0: a convenient wrapper for text conversion
  14. Painted stories of the Decameron: Nastagio degli Onesti’s breakfast
  15. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 335
  16. Convert text between file formats, including webarchives
  17. Painting along the Loing: Moret
  18. Last Week on My Mac: The mystery of Safari’s Web Archives
  19. Painting along the Loing: Grez
  20. Saturday Mac riddles 335
  21. Explainer: Data and metadata
  22. Reading Visual Art: 236 Carpenter
  23. Does Preview write PDF/A?
  24. The 400th anniversary of the birth of Paulus Potter
  25. Diagnose Spotlight local search problems
  26. The Dutch Golden Age: Winter
  27. Viewing metadata in the Finder
  28. Medium and Message: Glazes and optical effects
  29. Which local file systems does macOS 26 support?
  30. Painted stories of the Decameron: Introduction
  31. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 334
  32. How to save web pages using Safari
  33. In Memoriam Sofonisba Anguissola, who died 400 years ago
  34. Last Week on My Mac: Five Tahoe bugs
  35. Four great women painters after Sofonisba Anguissola
  36. Saturday Mac riddles 334
  37. Explainer: .DS_Store files
  38. Reading Visual Art: 235 Fish B
  39. How the Clock hoards timers until it breaks
  40. Reading Visual Art: 234 Fish A
  41. Does that SSD Trim, and why is it important?
  42. The Dutch Golden Age: Chiaroscuro in Utrecht
  43. Erase All Content and Settings does what it says
  44. Medium and Message: Varnish and the mists of grime
  45. Big guns for Tahoe problems: which radical fixes still work?
  46. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  47. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 16 Overview, Purgatory and Paradise
  48. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 333
  49. How to install security updates without upgrading to Tahoe
  50. Impressionists at Argenteuil 2
  51. Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe 26.1 disappointments
  52. Impressionists at Argenteuil 1
  53. Saturday Mac riddles 333
  54. Explainer: Permissions, privacy and TCC
  55. Botticelli’s studio
  56. Inside the Unified Log 7: Claude diagnoses the log
  57. Reading Visual Art: 233 Sirens
  58. How Tahoe 26.1 has enabled automatic security updates
  59. The Dutch Golden Age: Water
  60. Appearance revisited: Get Tahoe 26.1 looking in better shape
  61. Apple has released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator
  62. Early bugs in macOS Tahoe 26.1: VMs and Finder Services
  63. Medium and Message: Industrial chemistry
  64. What has changed in macOS 26.1 Tahoe?
  65. What can I do with my apps?
  66. Apple has released macOS 26.1 Tahoe, and security updates to 15.7.2 and 14.8.2
  67. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 15 Lucifer himself
  68. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 332
  69. Why old installers may not work
  70. The way of the Spartans 2
  71. Last Week on My Mac: What do those CPU frequencies mean?
  72. The way of the Spartans 1
  73. Saturday Mac riddles 332
  74. Explainer: Preferences

October 2025

  1. Gustave Doré’s paintings: After the war
  2. When time is out of joint, the log falls over
  3. Gustave Doré’s paintings: Before the war
  4. Updated CPU core frequencies for all current Apple silicon Macs
  5. The Dutch Golden Age: Jacob van Ruisdael’s trees
  6. Disentangling timestamps with Dropera 2
  7. Medium and Message: Soot and milk
  8. Updating CPU frequencies for Apple silicon Macs
  9. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 14 Count Ugolino
  10. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 331
  11. Should you repair permissions?
  12. Louveciennes landscapes: After the war
  13. Last Week on My Mac: Why Spotlight can’t find some files
  14. Louveciennes landscapes: Before the war
  15. Saturday Mac riddles 331
  16. Explainer: How does macOS recognise file types?
  17. Reading Visual Art: 232 Alchemy
  18. Be careful when interpreting APFS timestamps
  19. The Dutch Golden Age: Johannes Vermeer 2
  20. A Spotlight bug affecting all recent macOS: the LG error
  21. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  22. The Dutch Golden Age: Johannes Vermeer 1
  23. Gain access to a locked Mac with Recovery Assistant
  24. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  25. Medium and Message: Sticks and crayons
  26. Rewriting a file’s history
  27. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 13 Treachery
  28. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 330
  29. LogUI build 77 improves readability of log entries
  30. A painterly family: the Alma-Tademas 1884-1943
  31. Last Week on My Mac: The quiet firmware revolution
  32. A painterly family: the Alma-Tademas 1836-81
  33. Saturday Mac riddles 330
  34. Explainer: FileVault
  35. Reading Visual Art: 231 Tiger
  36. Inside the Unified Log 6: Difficult times
  37. Commemorating the centenary of Christian Krohg’s death
  38. Check if an app is stuck in translocation
  39. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  40. The Dutch Golden Age: Ordinary people
  41. Check your Mac is secure
  42. Medium and Message: Surface texture
  43. Inside the Unified Log 5: Navigation
  44. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 12 Fraud and inciting division
  45. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 329
  46. Is Tahoe quicker to launch apps first time?
  47. In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Impressionism
  48. Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe’s elephant
  49. In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Barbizon
  50. Saturday Mac riddles 329
  51. Explainer: How is XProtect’s data updated?
  52. Reading Visual Art: 230 Wolf
  53. How to migrate macOS virtual machines
  54. Christian Krohg painting social reality 4: 1898-1924
  55. What to do when your Mac can’t get to the login window
  56. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  57. The Dutch Golden Age: Nocturnes
  58. Resolve a file’s path from its inode number
  59. Medium and Message: Knives, fingers and long brushes
  60. What to do when APFS has problems
  61. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 11 Bribery, hypocrisy, theft
  62. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 328
  63. Inside the Unified Log 4: Log entries
  64. The Journey of Life 2
  65. Last Week on My Mac: Has macOS virtualisation ground to a halt?
  66. The Journey of Life 1
  67. Saturday Mac riddles 328
  68. Explainer: inodes and inode numbers
  69. Reading Visual Art: 229 Celestial events
  70. Welcome to Tahoe’s Launch Angels
  71. Christian Krohg painting social reality 3: 1888-95
  72. Why did that macOS upgrade take so much space?
  73. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  74. The Dutch Golden Age: Everyday life of Gerard ter Borch
  75. LogUI 1.0 build 74 adds a Diagnostics Tool for your logs

September 2025

  1. Medium and Message: Painting with egg yolk
  2. Do apps launch faster in macOS Tahoe?
  3. Apple has just released macOS 26.0.1 Tahoe, 15.7.1 and 14.8.1
  4. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 10 Fraud
  5. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 327
  6. Inside the Unified Log 3: Log storage and attrition
  7. Impressionists at Pontoise: 1876-81
  8. Last Week on My Mac: Panacea or placebo?
  9. Impressionists at Pontoise: 1867-76
  10. Saturday Mac riddles 327
  11. A brief history of content caching services
  12. Reading Visual Art: 228 Spade
  13. New in Tahoe Recovery: Device Recovery Assistant
  14. Christian Krohg painting social reality 2: 1883-88
  15. Inside the Unified Log 2: Why browse the log?
  16. The Dutch Golden Age: Group portraits
  17. When will macOS be updated in 2025-26?
  18. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  19. Medium and Message: Painted walls and ceilings
  20. Inside the Unified Log 1: Goals and architecture
  21. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 9 Violence against God
  22. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 326
  23. Which firmware should your Mac be using? (version 10, Tahoe)
  24. How Prussian soldiers changed art history: the death of Frédéric Bazille
  25. Last Week on My Mac: Things that go bump in the night
  26. How Prussian soldiers changed art history: Frédéric Bazille’s early paintings
  27. Saturday Mac riddles 326
  28. A brief history of threads and threading
  29. Reading Visual Art: 227 Chicken
  30. Silently updated security data files in Tahoe
  31. Christian Krohg painting social reality 1: to 1883
  32. Customising folders in Tahoe
  33. macOS 26.0 Tahoe build 25A354 is incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra
  34. The Dutch Golden Age: Cloudscapes
  35. Should you use Tahoe’s new ASIF disk images?
  36. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  37. Medium and Message: Faces frozen in wax
  38. Which cores does Visual Look Up use?
  39. Apple has released macOS 26 Tahoe, and Sequoia 15.7, Sonoma 14.8
  40. Appearance matters: Get Tahoe looking in better shape
  41. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 8 The Minotaur, killers and suicides
  42. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 325
  43. Will Macs get Apple’s new memory protection?
  44. Painting the Four Seasons 2: 1660-1917
  45. Last Quarter on My Mac: Which apps for macOS Tahoe?
  46. Painting the Four Seasons 1: 1590-1630
  47. Saturday Mac riddles 325
  48. A brief history of AppleWorks
  49. Reading Visual Art: 226 Blindfold
  50. Skint and SkintM version 1.09 are compatible with macOS 26 Tahoe
  51. How to preserve a document’s versions no matter what
  52. Walter Crane’s painted tales: 3, 1898-1915
  53. Prepare to upgrade macOS
  54. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  55. The Dutch Golden Age: Life in the Republic
  56. Command tools, threads and QoS
  57. Medium and Message: No binder at all
  58. Security data updates in Sequoia and Tahoe
  59. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 7 Furies and heresy
  60. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 324
  61. Managing macOS versioning and the .DocumentRevisions-V100 folder
  62. William Blake’s mythology: The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy
  63. Last Week on My Mac: Coming soon to your Mac’s neural engine
  64. William Blake’s mythology: The Ancient of Days
  65. Saturday Mac riddles 324
  66. A brief history of Adobe’s apps
  67. Reading Visual Art: 225 Dice
  68. How umask determines permissions
  69. Walter Crane’s painted tales: 2, 1883-97
  70. Quirks of Spotlight local search
  71. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  72. The Dutch Golden Age: Vanitas
  73. Preview’s saving grace and how to use it
  74. Medium and Message: Pure pigment
  75. How much power does Visual Look Up use?
  76. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 6 Money and anger
  77. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 323
  78. How large is that file?

August 2025

  1. Paintings of windmills after 1850
  2. Last Week on My Mac: Keeping up appearances in Tahoe
  3. Paintings of windmills to 1850
  4. Saturday Mac riddles 323
  5. A brief history of the Secure Enclave
  6. Reading Visual Art: 224 Gate
  7. What happens during startup?
  8. Walter Crane’s painted tales: 1, to 1883
  9. Check and diagnose Spotlight problems with SpotTest 1.1
  10. The Dutch Golden Age: Animal painting
  11. DropSum 1.2 is more flexible in handling text
  12. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  13. Medium and Message: Glue as a binder
  14. What is a SEP panic?
  15. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 5 Cerberus and gluttony
  16. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 322
  17. SpotTest 1.1 has search scopes for volumes
  18. Painting the Grain Harvest: Sheaves, stooks and threshing
  19. Last Week on My Mac: Bling or Cybertruck window?
  20. Painting the Grain Harvest: Cutting
  21. Saturday Mac riddles 322
  22. A brief history of SIP
  23. Reading Visual Art: 223 Armour B
  24. What to do when there’s something fundamentally wrong with an Apple silicon Mac
  25. Reading Visual Art: 222 Armour A
  26. How to check if your Apple silicon Mac is booting securely
  27. Apple has just released security updates to macOS 15.6.1, 14.7.8 and 13.7.8
  28. The Dutch Golden Age: Still Life
  29. Explainer: Yara rules
  30. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  31. Medium and Message: Sketch or studio?
  32. What happens to images when you disable Live Text?
  33. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 4 Paolo and Francesca
  34. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 321
  35. SpotTest 1.0 will help you diagnose Spotlight problems
  36. A green weekend: Viridian
  37. Last Week on My Mac: Drought and neural engines
  38. A green weekend: Emerald
  39. Saturday Mac riddles 321
  40. A brief history of XML and property lists
  41. A green weekend: Malachite
  42. How XProtect’s detection rules have changed 2019-25
  43. The Dutch Golden Age: Rembrandt after 1640
  44. Inside PDF annotations
  45. The Dutch Golden Age: Rembrandt to 1640
  46. How to search Spotlight for Live Text and objects in images
  47. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  48. Medium and Message: Watercolour on paper
  49. How do Live Text and Visual Look Up work now?
  50. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 3 In Limbo
  51. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 320
  52. Inside XProtect Remediator, and how it could save us from disaster
  53. Painting the summer storm 2
  54. Last Week on My Mac: Spotlight sorcery
  55. Painting the summer storm 1
  56. Saturday Mac riddles 320
  57. A brief history of PDF on the Mac
  58. Reading Visual Art: 221 Club and skin B
  59. macOS Sequoia end of cycle report
  60. Reading Visual Art: 220 Club and skin A
  61. What does RunningBoard do? 5 Log insights
  62. The Dutch Golden Age: Origins
  63. Is your Mac’s firmware up to date?
  64. Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator
  65. Medium and Message: Anatomy of paintings
  66. Access Linux file systems from Apple silicon Macs
  67. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 2 Abandon hope
  68. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 319
  69. A deeper dive into Spotlight indexing and local search
  70. The first modern pigment: Prussian blue
  71. Last Week on My Mac: Search and you’ll find
  72. Blue from over the sea: ultramarine
  73. Saturday Mac riddles 319
  74. A more detailed history of Spotlight
  75. The Dutch Golden Age: Introduction
  76. It’s time to pick your next version of macOS

July 2025

  1. Paintings of stave churches
  2. What does RunningBoard do? 4 Assertions
  3. Medium and Message: All in the caption
  4. A deeper dive into Spotlight indexes
  5. What has changed in macOS Sequoia 15.6?
  6. Apple has released macOS 15.6 Sequoia update, and 14.7.7 & 13.7.7
  7. Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 1 To the gates of Hell
  8. Check if files are identical and more with DropSum 1.1
  9. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Léon Augustin Lhermitte 2
  10. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 318
  11. Links and aliases: which are best?
  12. Dressed for a Dip: paintings of beach dress 1900-1920
  13. Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content
  14. Dressed for a Dip: paintings of beach dress to 1885
  15. Saturday Mac riddles 318
  16. A brief history of time synchronisation
  17. Introduction to Dante’s Inferno
  18. Check MD5 and SHA-256 hashes with DropSum, a new app
  19. Interiors by Design: Conclusions and contents
  20. Beware the full startup disk
  21. Book Review: Clouds, Edward Graham
  22. Intel Macs can be much slower computing SHA-256 hashes
  23. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  24. Changing Paintings: Overview
  25. kernel_task and summer heat
  26. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Léon Augustin Lhermitte 1
  27. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 317
  28. What does RunningBoard do? 3 XPC services, chronod and widget timelines
  29. Paintings of English Downs 2
  30. Last Week on My Mac: A strategy for data integrity
  31. Paintings of English Downs 1
  32. Saturday Mac riddles 317
  33. A brief history of primary coding languages
  34. Interiors by Design: Poverty
  35. Save your M-series Mac’s energy and battery
  36. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: In memoriam
  37. Encryption and checking hashes slows faster SSDs
  38. Changing Paintings: Rubens’ Metamorphoses 2
  39. Checking data integrity
  40. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  41. Changing Paintings: Rubens’ Metamorphoses 1
  42. What does RunningBoard do? 2 Managed apps
  43. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: A life in self-portraits
  44. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 316
  45. Updates for file integrity (Dintch/Fintch), compression (Cormorant) and LogUI build 70
  46. The fleeting brilliance of crimson
  47. Last Week on My Mac: Ghosts in the machine
  48. The poisonous permanence of vermilion
  49. Saturday Mac riddles 316
  50. A brief history of dial-up Internet connections
  51. Changing Paintings: Summary and contents parts 55-74
  52. What happened to XProtect this week?
  53. Tahoe b3 and Xcode 26 b3 can screw app icons
  54. Interiors by Design: Scullery and utility room
  55. What does RunningBoard do? 1 App launching
  56. Reading Visual Art: 219 Police
  57. Cryptexes, AI and Creedence Clearwater Revival
  58. Apple has just released major updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator
  59. In memoriam Robert Bevan, British landscape painter: 1915-1925
  60. More updates for Tahoe: Spotlight (Metamer, Spotcord), text obfuscation (Dystextia) and storage testing (Stibium)
  61. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1924-25
  62. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 315
  63. macOS Tahoe extends quantum-secure encryption
  64. Paintings of Norwegian Fjords 1900-28
  65. Last Week on My Mac: PageRank and plagiarism
  66. Paintings of Norwegian Fjords 1827-99
  67. Saturday Mac riddles 315
  68. A brief history of Internet search
  69. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1920-23
  70. What’s the future for your Intel Mac?
  71. Changing Paintings: Summary and contents parts 37-54
  72. More updates for Tahoe: Aliases (Alifix), special files (Sparsity), file types (UTIutility) and language (Nalaprop)
  73. Interiors by Design: Gallery
  74. Should you try the public beta-release of Tahoe?
  75. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  76. In memoriam Robert Bevan, British landscape painter: to 1914
  77. How to stop Safari quitting unintentionally

June 2025

  1. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1915-19
  2. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 314
  3. Updates to Apfelstrudel (Unicode), AppexIndexer (Appexes), Ulbow (logs) and Versatility (versions)
  4. Yellows cruel and Impressionist
  5. Last Week on My Mac: Plan ahead with this summer’s mallyshag
  6. The lost yellow of the masters
  7. Saturday Mac riddles 314
  8. A brief history of web browsers
  9. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1913-14
  10. Updates to Cirrus (iCloud), Revisionist (versions), Spundle (sparse bundles) and T2M2 (Time Machine)
  11. Changing Paintings: Summary and contents parts 19-36
  12. Read PDF better with a new version of Podophyllin
  13. Interiors by Design: Bars, pubs and cafés
  14. How keys are used in FileVault and encryption
  15. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  16. Reading Visual Art: 218 Umbrellas and parasols in the sun
  17. More updates: xattred, Precize and DelightEd. From xattrs to Rich Text
  18. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1912
  19. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 313
  20. Starting up: early kernel boot in macOS 15, iPadOS 18 and iOS 18
  21. Paintings of Oslo: Environs
  22. Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe the iconoclast
  23. Paintings of Oslo: City
  24. Saturday Mac riddles 313
  25. A brief history of hardware epidemics
  26. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1909-1911
  27. Boot disk structure in macOS, iOS and iPadOS, and AI cryptexes
  28. Changing Paintings: Summary and contents parts 1-18
  29. The future of SilentKnight, and updates to XProCheck and LogUI
  30. Interiors by Design: British Music Halls
  31. Updates for SilentKnight, Mints and SystHist
  32. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  33. Reading Visual Art: 217 Umbrellas in the rain
  34. When and how should you run First Aid in Disk Utility?
  35. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1905-1909
  36. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 312
  37. Spotlight search can be blocked by extended attributes
  38. Brandjes: Paintings as witnesses to fires 1826-1927
  39. Last Week on My Mac: Fidelity in design
  40. Brandjes: Paintings as witnesses to fires 1640-1813
  41. Saturday Mac riddles 312
  42. A brief history of rebuilding and repairing
  43. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1901-1904
  44. Is Tahoe really macOS 26 or 16?
  45. Interiors by Design: Barns and cowsheds
  46. macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format
  47. Reading Visual Art: 216 Scales (weighing)
  48. LogUI build 65 introduces a Logarchive Tool
  49. Virtualising macOS 26 Tahoe
  50. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  51. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1898-1900
  52. macOS 26 Tahoe is coming
  53. Changing Paintings: 74 The Age of Augustus
  54. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 311
  55. LogUI build 60 reads iOS, iPadOS, macOS and other logarchives
  56. Paintings of the Danish countryside: Zealand 2
  57. Last Week on My Mac: The Swiss Army knife of search
  58. Paintings of the Danish countryside: Zealand 1
  59. Saturday Mac riddles 311
  60. A brief history of local search
  61. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1891-97
  62. How to search successfully in Spotlight: Query languages
  63. Interiors by Design: Church
  64. LogUI build 58 reads and writes JSON, and more
  65. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  66. Reading Visual Art: 215 Wrestling
  67. Prepare your Mac for safe disposal
  68. Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1880-90
  69. How to search successfully in Spotlight: Saved Search
  70. Changing Paintings: 73 Julius Caesar
  71. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 310
  72. How to search successfully in Spotlight: GUI tools
  73. Painting and Photography: Is it art?
  74. Last Week on My Mac: Successful search strategies

May 2025

  1. Painting and Photography: Early experiments
  2. Saturday Mac riddles 310
  3. A brief history of Mac OS version numbers
  4. Urban Revolutionaries: Summary and Contents
  5. Can you trust times shown in the log?
  6. Interiors by Design: Nursery and Children’s Areas
  7. Searching for the file that won’t be found
  8. Reading Visual Art: 214 Problem pictures B
  9. Save space on the internal SSD by adding another volume
  10. Reading Visual Art: 213 Problem pictures A
  11. LogUI build 52 handles time zones and microseconds better
  12. Changing Paintings: 72 Plague and Aesculapius
  13. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 309
  14. Never work with children, animals or time: nailing the nanosecond
  15. Spring meadows 2
  16. Last Week on My Mac: Ever alert
  17. Spring meadows 1
  18. Saturday Mac riddles 309
  19. A brief history of alerts
  20. Urban Revolutionaries: 15 Angst
  21. What to expect of XProtects?
  22. Interiors by Design: Workshops
  23. Is high resolution time available in the log?
  24. Reading Visual Art: 212 Narrative modes B
  25. System time, clocks and their syncing in macOS
  26. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  27. Reading Visual Art: 211 Narrative modes A
  28. A Dance to the Music of Time in Intel and Apple silicon logs
  29. Changing Paintings: 71 Pythagoras and Numa
  30. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 308
  31. Resolve time better in LogUI build 48
  32. A French landscape painter in Rome: Claude
  33. Last Week on My Mac: Forcing decisions
  34. A French landscape painter in Rome: Poussin
  35. Saturday Mac riddles 308
  36. A brief history of architecture transitions
  37. Temporary suspension of comments
  38. Urban Revolutionaries: 14 Epidemic
  39. Comparing in-core performance of Intel, M3 and M4 CPU cores
  40. Interiors by Design: Cupboards and dressers
  41. Check your network backups and shares, as AFP is being removed
  42. Reading Visual Art: 210 Parrot B
  43. What has Apple added in advance of macOS 16?
  44. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  45. Reading Visual Art: 209 Parrot A
  46. How to tell the difference between copies, clone files, and hard links
  47. What has changed in macOS Sequoia 15.5?
  48. Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.5, and 14.7.6, 13.7.6
  49. Changing Paintings: 70 Romulus and the founding of Rome
  50. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 307
  51. Use Writing Tools to understand the log in LogUI build 46
  52. Landscapes of Spain: The twentieth century
  53. Last Week on My Mac: Who’s afraid of changing interface?
  54. Landscapes of Spain: The nineteenth century
  55. Saturday Mac riddles 307
  56. A brief history of the all-in-one Mac
  57. The bicentenary of James Collinson, least-known Pre-Raphaelite painter
  58. What is Quality of Service, and how does it matter?
  59. Urban Revolutionaries: 13 Holidays
  60. Reducing noise by searching LogUI’s views
  61. Reading Visual Art: 208 Friezes B
  62. Choosing an Apple silicon Mac
  63. Reading Visual Art: 207 Friezes A
  64. Search your log extracts with LogUI build 42
  65. Changing Paintings: 69 Vertumnus and Pomona
  66. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 306
  67. How document versions are handled in iCloud Drive
  68. From the Commedia dell’Arte to Punch and Judy 2
  69. Last Week on My Mac: Checking code can take longer now
  70. From the Commedia dell’Arte to Punch and Judy 1
  71. Saturday Mac riddles 306
  72. A brief history of fonts in Mac OS
  73. Urban Revolutionaries: 12 Parks
  74. What isn’t backed up?
  75. Interiors by Design: Music rooms
  76. Versions in motion: how to preserve document versions

April 2025

  1. Reading Visual Art: 206 Colour codes B
  2. Why some apps sometimes launch extremely slowly
  3. Reading Visual Art: 205 Colour codes A
  4. Document versioning: unused power in macOS
  5. Changing Paintings: 68 Apotheosis of Aeneas
  6. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 305
  7. How checking hashes can slow your Mac
  8. Pre-Raphaelite landscapes of John Brett: 2 The Channel
  9. Last Week on My Mac: Gone to launch
  10. Pre-Raphaelite landscapes of John Brett: 1 Travels
  11. Saturday Mac riddles 305
  12. A brief history of code signing on Macs
  13. Urban Revolutionaries: 11 Crowds and traffic
  14. What is a bundle, and how are frameworks different?
  15. Interiors by Design: Potted plants
  16. How disk images can become sparse files
  17. Reading Visual Art: 204 Triptychs B
  18. An overview of app extensions and plugins in macOS Sequoia
  19. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  20. Reading Visual Art: 203 Triptychs A
  21. Why some apps launch very slowly
  22. Changing Paintings: 67 Circe and her swine
  23. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 304
  24. The perils of virtualisation on M4 Macs
  25. Easter Paintings: 3 The Resurrection
  26. Last Week on My Mac: A lost cause code
  27. Easter Paintings: 2 The Crucifixion
  28. Saturday Mac riddles 304
  29. A brief history of text on the Mac
  30. Easter Paintings: 1 The Passion
  31. Why I like SwiftUI List Views
  32. Changing Paintings: 66 The tale of Polyphemus
  33. Why did my Mac restart or shut itself down, and where’s the cause code?
  34. Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 update
  35. Commemorating the bicentenary of Henry Fuseli’s death: 2
  36. How PlugInKit enables app extensions
  37. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  38. Commemorating the bicentenary of Henry Fuseli’s death: 1
  39. Save and read the panic log
  40. Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 6 Post-war
  41. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 303
  42. AppexIndexer build 8 has sort and search features
  43. Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 5 War
  44. Last Week on My Mac: Discovering discovery
  45. Painting Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame
  46. Saturday Mac riddles 303
  47. A brief history of Mac native file systems
  48. Urban Revolutionaries: 10 Rags to riches
  49. Is your Mac’s firmware still supported?
  50. Interiors by Design: Screens
  51. Discover appexes with AppexIndexer
  52. Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 4 Travels
  53. How disk images and VMs are more efficient
  54. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  55. Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 3 Venice
  56. Rise of the Appex: What are App Extensions?
  57. Changing Paintings: 65 The Cumaean Sibyl
  58. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 302
  59. How robust are APFS clone and sparse files?
  60. All aboard: a century of painting railways 2
  61. Last Week on My Mac: Sequoia Spring
  62. All aboard: a century of painting railways 1
  63. Saturday Mac riddles 302
  64. A brief history of disk images on the Mac
  65. Interiors by Design: Dressing table
  66. Apple silicon VMs struggle to update to Sequoia 15.4
  67. Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 2 London
  68. A primer on predicates for LogUI
  69. Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 1 Pupil
  70. Can APFS special files save storage space?
  71. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  72. Reading Visual Art: 202 Rabbit & Hare
  73. LogUI build 37 now has more power for browsing the log

March 2025

  1. Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.4, and 14.7.5, 13.7.5
  2. Changing Paintings: 64 Scylla meets Glaucus
  3. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 301
  4. External boot disks: structure and problems
  5. Paintings of the Franco-Prussian War: 2 The Siege of Paris
  6. Last Week on My Mac: Bring back the magic
  7. Paintings of the Franco-Prussian War: 1 Collapse
  8. Saturday Mac riddles 301
  9. A brief history of compression on Macs
  10. Urban Revolutionaries: 9 Poverty
  11. macOS 15.3.2 Sequoia won’t install older macOS on Apple silicon Macs
  12. Interiors by Design: Writing desks
  13. Controlling LaunchServices in macOS Sequoia
  14. Reading Visual Art: 201 Dancing, ballet and erotic
  15. How macOS Sequoia launches an app
  16. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  17. Reading Visual Art: 200 Dancing, myth and folk
  18. Better security means less recoverability
  19. Changing Paintings: 63 The tragedy of Galatea
  20. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 300
  21. What are app entitlements, and what do they do?
  22. Roman Landscapes: 2 Development
  23. Last Week on My Mac: Giving a fsck
  24. Roman Landscapes: 1 Dawn
  25. Saturday Mac riddles 300
  26. A brief history of installing Mac OS: Mac OS X and beyond
  27. Urban Revolutionaries: 8 The Oldest Profession
  28. When you should use Safe Mode, and what it does
  29. Interiors by Design: Tiles
  30. LogUI log browser build 31 has better filters
  31. Reading Visual Art: 199 Physical ecstasy
  32. What happened to macOS in last week’s updates?
  33. Reading Visual Art: 198 Religious ecstasy
  34. Take control of disks using APFS
  35. Changing Paintings: 62 Aeneas flees Troy
  36. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 299
  37. Why SSDs slow down, and how to avoid it
  38. Napoleons of paintings: 2 Defeat
  39. Last Week on My Mac: The myth of liquid detection
  40. Napoleons of paintings: 1 Victories
  41. Saturday Mac riddles 299
  42. A brief history of installing Mac OS: Mac OS 9.1
  43. Interiors by Design: Wallpaper
  44. Browse your Mac’s log with LogUI
  45. The bicentenary of Hans Gude: 2 Painting Abroad
  46. USB ports on Apple Silicon Macs: Accessory Security and liquid detection
  47. The bicentenary of Hans Gude: 1 Painting Norway
  48. Why all this privacy protection? An overview
  49. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  50. Apple has just released macOS Sequoia 15.3.2
  51. Reading Visual Art: 197 Pain
  52. XProtect Remediator has changed its behaviour
  53. Changing Paintings: 61 Sacrifice of Polyxena
  54. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 298
  55. Manage privacy protection for network devices and others
  56. Strolling the Valèncian shore with Sorolla’s paintings: 2 Ladies
  57. Last Week on My Mac: Increasingly insecure in Sequoia
  58. Strolling the Valèncian shore with Sorolla’s paintings: 1 Fishermen
  59. Saturday Mac riddles 298
  60. A brief history of system preferences and settings
  61. Urban Revolutionaries: 7 Women’s work
  62. Managing access to location information
  63. Interiors by Design: Clocks
  64. What has happened to XProtect in Sequoia?
  65. Reading Visual Art: 196 Hats of fashion
  66. Should you pay a premium price for a bigger internal SSD?
  67. Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator
  68. LogUI build 25 replaced by build 27
  69. Reading Visual Art: 195 Hats with meaning
  70. LogUI build 25 can select and copy log entries, and more
  71. Changing Paintings: 60 The sack of Troy
  72. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 297
  73. Managing privacy-protected devices
  74. Two Duchesses: Paintings of the Duchess of Ferrara
  75. Last Week on My Mac: Death, taxes and macOS updates
  76. Two Duchesses: Paintings of the Duchess of Mantua
  77. Saturday Mac riddles 297
  78. A brief history of keychains

February 2025

  1. Urban Revolutionaries: 6 Demon drink
  2. Friday Magic: How to make disk space unpurgeable
  3. Interiors by Design: Fireplace
  4. How your Mac can update macOS when you don’t want it to
  5. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  6. Reading Visual Art: 194 Altars, later
  7. Introducing LogUI: an experimental log browser
  8. Reading Visual Art: 193 Altars, early
  9. Speed or security? Speculative execution in Apple silicon
  10. Changing Paintings: 59 The death of Achilles
  11. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 296
  12. Gaining access to privacy-protected folders
  13. Paintings from Ukraine 2
  14. Last Week on My Mac: The sinkhole under macOS
  15. Paintings from Ukraine 1
  16. Saturday Mac riddles 296
  17. A brief history of scripting the Mac
  18. Urban Revolutionaries: 5 On strike
  19. How external bootable disks work with Apple silicon Macs
  20. Interiors by Design: Carpets
  21. Permissions, privacy and security: who’s in control?
  22. Reading Visual Art: 192 Curtains as a device
  23. How to deal with a kernel panic
  24. Reading Visual Art: 191 Curtains of concealment and revelation
  25. Getting more from Recovery on Apple silicon Macs
  26. Changing Paintings: 58 A wedding ruined by centaurs
  27. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 295
  28. What can’t you do on Apple silicon Macs, and what should you avoid?
  29. Paintings of Saint-Tropez: Colour, boats and bathers 2
  30. Last Week on My Mac: What did 15.3.1 fix?
  31. Paintings of Saint-Tropez: Colour, boats and bathers 1
  32. Saturday Mac riddles 295
  33. A brief history of bundles
  34. Urban Revolutionaries: 4 Coal and construction
  35. Watch your background: automatic Time Machine backups
  36. Interiors by Design: The silence of Vilhelm Hammershøi
  37. Do M4 chips have a new security processor?
  38. Reading Visual Art: 190 Lightning in the sky
  39. Can you calibrate your Apple or MacBook Pro display?
  40. Reading Visual Art: 189 Lightning of the gods
  41. What is System Data in Storage Settings?
  42. Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.3.1, and 14.7.4, 13.7.4
  43. Changing Paintings: 57 The sacrifice of Iphigenia
  44. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 294
  45. Watch your background: In-app background tasks
  46. Inglorious mud: 2 To the War to End Wars
  47. Last Week on My Mac: A brief history of what we take for granted
  48. Inglorious mud: 1 On the move
  49. Saturday Mac riddles 294
  50. A brief history of ColorSync
  51. Urban Revolutionaries: 3 Factories
  52. Add custom file and folder icons in Sequoia
  53. Interiors by Design: Hospital wards
  54. Start planning your Mac’s Spring clean
  55. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  56. Reading Visual Art: 188 Poster, adverts
  57. Watch your background: Scheduling XProtect Remediator scans
  58. Reading Visual Art: 187 Poster, messages
  59. macOS Sequoia 15.3 has improved Thunderbolt 5 performance
  60. Changing Paintings: 56 The hawk, kingfishers and a diver
  61. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 293
  62. How to change lid behaviour on MacBook Air and Pro
  63. Florence: paintings of the city
  64. Last Week on My Mac: What happened with XProtect?
  65. Florence: a history in paintings
  66. Saturday Mac riddles 293
  67. A brief history of the Finder

January 2025

  1. Urban Revolutionaries: 2 Living in the city
  2. Friday magic: how to cheat on E cores and get free performance
  3. Interiors by Design: Stairs
  4. Thunderbolt 5 SSDs are promising, but fill their cache quicker
  5. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all supported macOS
  6. Apple has released an update to XProtect for Sequoia only
  7. Reading Visual Art: 186 Poison B
  8. Watch your background: background activities with DAS-CTS
  9. Reading Visual Art: 185 Poison A
  10. Please don’t delete your logs
  11. What has changed in macOS Sequoia 15.3?
  12. Apple has just released macOS Sequoia 15.3, and security updates 14.7.3 & 13.7.3
  13. Changing Paintings: 55 The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
  14. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 292
  15. Does your MacBook Pro or Air need a lunchbreak?
  16. Painting poetry: Byron’s Oriental and other tales
  17. Last Week on My Mac: Can we make cleaning up our Macs simpler?
  18. Painting poetry: Byron’s Mazeppa
  19. Saturday Mac riddles 292
  20. A brief history of scheduled tasks
  21. Urban Revolutionaries: 1 Leaving the country
  22. What to do when macOS won’t let you unmount a volume
  23. Interiors by Design: Dining Room
  24. Create and use virtual machines on Apple silicon Macs
  25. Reading Visual Art: 184 Just sewing
  26. M4 Pro full on: when CPU and GPU draw over 50 W, and how Low Power mode changes that
  27. Reading Visual Art: 183 Sewing for a purpose
  28. What can you do with virtualised macOS on Apple silicon?
  29. Changing Paintings: 54 How Midas got his touch and his ears
  30. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 291
  31. What are CPU core frequencies in Apple silicon Macs?
  32. Paintings of the Tuileries Gardens: 2 After Monet
  33. Last Week on My Mac: A boot mystery solved?
  34. Paintings of the Tuileries Gardens: 1 To Monet
  35. Saturday Mac riddles 291
  36. A brief history of help
  37. Urban Revolutionaries: Introduction to paintings of life in growing cities
  38. Apple silicon CPU cores of the same type aren’t the same after all
  39. Interiors by Design: Kitchens
  40. How Low Power mode controls CPU cores
  41. Reading Visual Art: 182 Deer
  42. Create an external bootable disk for Apple silicon and Intel Macs
  43. Apple has released an update to XProtect
  44. Changing Paintings: 53 The death of Orpheus
  45. Thunderbolt ports aren’t all the same
  46. Commemorating 4 centuries since the death of Jan Brueghel the Elder 2
  47. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 290
  48. How to run more than one version of macOS on one Mac
  49. Commemorating 4 centuries since the death of Jan Brueghel the Elder 1
  50. Last Week on My Mac: Power throttle
  51. Interiors by Design: Pierre Bonnard 2, bathroom
  52. Saturday Mac riddles 290
  53. A brief history of the Mac mini
  54. Interiors by Design: Pierre Bonnard 1, general
  55. FileVault and volume encryption explained
  56. The Real Country: Summary and contents
  57. Why use APFS?
  58. Commemorating the centenary of the death of George Bellows 2
  59. Power Modes and Apple silicon CPUs
  60. Commemorating the centenary of the death of George Bellows 1
  61. Why all the snapshots?
  62. Changing Paintings: 52 Death of Adonis
  63. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 289
  64. Power Modes and Apple Silicon GPUs
  65. Frozen: painting the winter ice 1883-1917
  66. Last Week on My Mac: How Apple silicon came so quickly
  67. Frozen: painting the winter ice 1565-1873
  68. Saturday Mac riddles 289
  69. A brief history of Mac numeric processing
  70. Reading visual art: 181 Magpie
  71. Why XProtect Remediator scans now take longer
  72. Changing Paintings: 51 The race between Hippomenes and Atalanta
  73. How macOS has become more private
  74. Next Year in Paintings: John Singer Sargent, Lovis Corinth, Félix Vallotton and others
  75. How macOS has grown 2019-2024

2024 382

December 2024

  1. The best of 2024’s paintings and articles 2
  2. ICYMI: A selection of the best Mac articles from 2024
  3. The best of 2024’s paintings and articles 1
  4. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 288
  5. Get better performance from network storage
  6. Paintings of the Bay of Naples: 1860 to 1927
  7. Last Year on My Mac: miniest mini and more
  8. Paintings of the Bay of Naples: 79 CE to 1857
  9. Saturday Mac riddles 288
  10. Prepare your Mac for service or repair
  11. Painting a suspicious death
  12. XProtect ascendant: macOS security in 2024
  13. Adorations: paintings for Boxing Day
  14. A brief history of Mac batteries
  15. Nativities: paintings for Christmas
  16. How your Intel Mac can use USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 drives at full speed
  17. Those in need: paintings of Christmas Eve
  18. Solving Finder tag problems
  19. Paintings of 1924: 3 Landscapes
  20. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 287
  21. Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?
  22. Painting poetry: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  23. Last Week on My Mac: School of Athens or Blinded Samson?
  24. Painting poetry: John Keats
  25. Saturday Mac riddles 287
  26. A brief history of logs and Console
  27. Interiors by Design: Bedrooms
  28. How iCloud can be simpler than a server
  29. Paintings of 1924: 2 Narrative and miscellaneous
  30. XProtect has changed again in macOS Sequoia 15.2
  31. The Real Country: Idyll
  32. Is it worth storing Time Machine backups on a faster drive?
  33. Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator
  34. Reading visual art: 180 The holly and the ivy
  35. Tune for Performance: Core types
  36. Changing Paintings: 50 The making of myrrh and birth of Adonis
  37. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 286
  38. Are sparse bundles faster than disk images?
  39. Commemorating the centenary of the death of Henri Jules Jean Geoffroy, painter of childhood
  40. Last Week on My Mac: Compression models
  41. Celebrating the bicentenary of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes 2
  42. Saturday Mac riddles 286
  43. A brief history of Activity Monitor
  44. Celebrating the bicentenary of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes 1
  45. Has Apple stopped updating EFI firmware?
  46. Paintings of 1924: 1 Portraits and figures
  47. Tune for Performance: Do you really need a big internal SSD?
  48. What has changed in macOS Sequoia 15.2?
  49. Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.2, and security updates to 14.7.2 and 13.7.2
  50. The Real Country: People
  51. Tune for Performance: Activity Monitor’s CPU view
  52. Changing Paintings: 49 Galatea transformed from a statue
  53. Tune for Performance: do more threads run faster?
  54. Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Girodet
  55. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 285
  56. How Thunderbolt 5 can be faster or not
  57. Paintings of the Coast of California 2
  58. Last Week on My Mac: Tuning for performance
  59. Paintings of the Coast of California 1
  60. Saturday Mac riddles 285
  61. A brief history of Mac servers
  62. Interiors by Design: Félix Vallotton’s disturbing domestics
  63. The Finder column width bug is over 11 years old
  64. The Real Country: Drains and engines
  65. Inside M4 chips: CPU core management
  66. Reading visual art: 179 Knitting, poverty
  67. How is Thunderbolt 5 doing so far?
  68. Reading visual art: 178 Knitting, past and pastime
  69. Managing kernel extensions
  70. Changing Paintings: 48 Killed by Apollo’s discus
  71. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 284
  72. Inside M4 chips: Controlling frequency
  73. Paintings of New York City, 1909-1921
  74. Last Week on My Mac: Whether the weather

November 2024

  1. Paintings of New York City, 1886-1908
  2. Saturday Mac riddles 284
  3. A brief history of Mac memory and its management
  4. Interiors by Design: Nordic flair
  5. Using and troubleshooting Spotlight in Sequoia: summary
  6. The Real Country: The Year
  7. How to browse your Mac’s log from months ago
  8. Reading visual art: 177 Peace, modern
  9. Inside M4 chips: Matrix processing and Power Modes
  10. Reading visual art: 176 Peace, mythical and ancient
  11. Why can’t Spotlight find files in Library folders?
  12. Changing Paintings: 47 The cypress tree, and the abduction of Ganymede
  13. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 283
  14. Inside M4 chips: CPU power, energy and mystery
  15. Boccaccio’s Decameron: paintings of Lisabetta’s tragedy
  16. Last Week on My Mac: Just asking for advice
  17. Boccaccio’s Decameron: paintings of Cimon and Iphigenia
  18. Saturday Mac riddles 283
  19. A brief history of Mac CPUs
  20. Interiors by Design: Drawing Rooms
  21. How to tell if Spotlight has indexed a file correctly
  22. The Real Country: Trades
  23. How do APFS volume roles work?
  24. Reading visual art: 175 Butterfly, natural
  25. Inside M4 chips: CPU core performance
  26. Apple has released an update to XProtect
  27. Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.1.1
  28. Reading visual art: 174 Butterfly, narrative and symbolic
  29. When and how to rebuild Spotlight indexes
  30. Changing Paintings: 46 Orpheus and Eurydice
  31. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 282
  32. Inside M4 chips: E and P cores
  33. Painting outdoors with William Merritt Chase at Shinnecock 2
  34. Last Week on My Mac: Health & Efficiency
  35. Painting outdoors with William Merritt Chase at Shinnecock 1
  36. Saturday Mac riddles 282
  37. A brief history of Mac ports – low speed
  38. Interiors by Design: The artist’s studio
  39. Should you migrate to your new Mac, and when?
  40. The Real Country: Market
  41. M4 Macs can’t virtualise older macOS
  42. Reading visual art: 173 Sage
  43. Inside M4 chips: P cores hosting a VM
  44. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  45. Reading visual art: 172 Fool
  46. Migrating to a new Mac, and claiming Time Machine backups
  47. Changing Paintings: 45 Dryope, Byblis and Iphis
  48. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 281
  49. Inside M4 chips: P cores
  50. James Tissot’s Anglo-French stories: 2, to England and return
  51. Last Week on My Mac: Mac mini M4 Pro first impressions, cores and more
  52. James Tissot’s Anglo-French stories: 1, France
  53. Saturday Mac riddles 281
  54. A brief history of privacy protection on Macs
  55. Interiors by design: Studios, history and light
  56. Why % CPU in Activity Monitor isn’t what you think
  57. Commemorating the centenary of the death of Hans Thoma: 2, from 1886
  58. Which M4 chip and model?
  59. The Real Country: Potatoes
  60. Sequoia catches: periodic and VMs
  61. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  62. Reading visual art: 171 Coffin
  63. Why notarize apps?
  64. Changing Paintings: 44 The birth of Hercules
  65. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 280
  66. How does QuickLook create Thumbnails and Previews? With an update to Mints
  67. Paintings of Gloucester Harbour and Dogtown: 1910-1936
  68. Last Week on My Mac: M4 incoming
  69. Paintings of Gloucester Harbour: 1850-1910
  70. Saturday Mac riddles 280
  71. A brief history of icons, thumbnails and QuickLook
  72. Interiors by design: Revival
  73. Why you need to make archives, and how to

October 2024

  1. Commemorating the centenary of the death of Hans Thoma: 1, to 1885
  2. How Sequoia has changed QuickLook and its thumbnails
  3. The Real Country: Hay
  4. Securing the modern Mac: an overview
  5. Watch for overdue Safari 18.1 updates for Sonoma and Ventura
  6. Reading visual art: 170 Mermaid
  7. Check Writing Tools using AIR
  8. What has changed in macOS Sequoia 15.1?
  9. Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.1, and security updates to 14.7.1 and 13.7.1
  10. Changing Paintings: 43 The death of Hercules
  11. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 279
  12. Planning complex Time Machine backups for efficiency
  13. Painting Don Quixote: Decline and fall
  14. Last Week on My Mac: Writing Tools
  15. Painting Don Quixote: Arise the knight
  16. Saturday Mac riddles 279
  17. A brief history of Mac firmware
  18. Interiors by design: The Dutch Golden Age
  19. macOS Sequoia 15.1 next week
  20. The Real Country: 10 Cattle
  21. How Macs boot securely, or can’t
  22. Reading visual art: 169 Wedding, personal
  23. Is that authentication request genuine or fake?
  24. Reading visual art: 168 Wedding, narrative
  25. Boot volume layout and structure in macOS Sequoia
  26. Changing Paintings: 42 Wrestling for the Horn of Plenty
  27. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 278
  28. Disk Images: Bands, Compaction and Space Efficiency
  29. Canals of Venice 1903-1910
  30. Last Week on My Mac: Top Tips or clunky cosplay?
  31. Canals of Venice 1895-1903
  32. Saturday Mac riddles 278
  33. A brief history of FileVault
  34. Interiors by design: Introduction to a new painting series
  35. Turn a sparse bundle into a TARDIS: an odd bug in Sequoia
  36. The Real Country: 9 Courses and crop rotation
  37. Who’s been accessing my storage? Reading a disk’s history
  38. Apple has released an update to XProtect Remediator
  39. Reading visual art: 167 View from the balcony
  40. Disk Images: Performance
  41. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  42. Reading visual art: 166 View of the balcony
  43. A visual sampler of window layouts in Sequoia
  44. Changing Paintings: 41 Shape-shifters and the Old Man of the Sea
  45. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 277
  46. Disk Images: How read-write disk images have gone sparse
  47. Canals of Venice: 1875-1895
  48. Last Week on My Mac: Lost for words in System Settings
  49. In memoriam Antonio Muñoz Degrain, who died 100 years ago
  50. Saturday Mac riddles 277
  51. A brief history of the Chooser and printer support
  52. Emily Carr’s paintings, Tombstones 1937-1945
  53. How to keep up to date with SilentKnight without upgrading by mistake
  54. The Real Country: 8 Cash and other crops
  55. A simple guide to how XProtect installs and updates in Sequoia
  56. Reading visual art: 165 Group portraits B
  57. Disk Images: Tools
  58. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  59. Reading visual art: 164 Group portraits A
  60. APFS incompatibilities and how to live with them
  61. Changing Paintings: 40 Hospitality to strangers and virtue rewarded
  62. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 276
  63. Disk Images: Introduction
  64. Canals of Venice: 1825-1870
  65. Last Week on My Mac: the Finder is growing less consistent
  66. In memoriam Joachim Patinir, who died 500 years ago
  67. Saturday Mac riddles 276
  68. A brief history of defragging
  69. Emily Carr’s paintings: Sculptural form 1931-1936
  70. Apple has released Sequoia 15.0.1 and Safari updates
  71. Is there more XProtection in Sequoia?
  72. The Real Country: 7 Meat, milk, fleece and dung
  73. Understand and check Time Machine backups to APFS
  74. Reading visual art: 163 Tents, modern
  75. Pinning iCloud Drive in Sequoia is bizarre, and an update to Cirrus
  76. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  77. Reading visual art: 162 Tents, ancient
  78. Living with(out) notarization

September 2024

  1. Changing Paintings: 39 The feast of Achelous
  2. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 275
  3. How iCloud has changed in Sequoia: pinning and more
  4. The Coast of Maine: 20th century paintings
  5. Last Week on My Mac: Upgrade games
  6. The Coast of Maine: 19th century paintings
  7. Saturday Mac riddles 275
  8. A brief history of System Information and Gestalt
  9. Emily Carr’s paintings, 1914-1930
  10. Which disk format?
  11. The Real Country: 6 The mill
  12. Inside Sequoia’s new Passwords app
  13. Reading visual art: 161 Death
  14. How XProtect has changed in macOS Sequoia
  15. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for Sequoia
  16. Reading visual art: 160 Birth
  17. Silently updated security data files in Sequoia
  18. Changing Paintings: 38 The Calydonian Boar Hunt
  19. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 274
  20. Firmware updates with macOS 15.0, 14.7 and 13.7
  21. Which firmware should your Mac be using? (version 9, Sequoia)
  22. Heroines: Introduction, overview and contents
  23. Last Week on my Mac: I told you so
  24. Heroines 20, 21: Cydippe’s apple of love
  25. Saturday Mac riddles 274
  26. A brief history of QuickDraw and PICTs
  27. Emily Carr’s paintings: Haida 1912-1913
  28. What should you do when an update goes wrong?
  29. The Real Country: 5 Threshing and processing grain
  30. What to do when your Mac can’t update
  31. Apple has just released an update to XProtect
  32. Reading visual art: 159 Voyeur, modern
  33. Build a VM with iCloud access in Sequoia, on Apple silicon
  34. XProtect updates are available again
  35. Reading visual art: 158 Voyeur, classical
  36. Apple has stopped all XProtect updates for macOS Sonoma and earlier
  37. Sequoia introduces pinning to iCloud Drive
  38. Apple has just released an update to XProtect
  39. Apple has released macOS 15.0 Sequoia and security updates to 14.7 and 13.7
  40. Changing Paintings: 37 The fall of Icarus
  41. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 273
  42. Looking ahead to Sequoia’s updates
  43. Laundresses in a landscape 2
  44. Last Week on my Mac: 15.0 or wait for 15.1?
  45. Laundresses in a landscape 1
  46. Saturday Mac riddles 273
  47. A brief history of QuickTime
  48. Emily Carr’s paintings: First totems 1892-1911
  49. From quarantine to provenance: how xattrs are copied
  50. The Real Country: 4 Gleaning
  51. From quarantine to provenance: extended attributes
  52. Reading visual art: 157 Hospitality in life
  53. macOS Sequoia ships next week; here’s a SilentKnight update for it
  54. Reading visual art: 156 Hospitality in myth
  55. What performance should you get from different types of storage?
  56. Changing Paintings: 36 Theseus and the Minotaur
  57. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 272
  58. Mastering Secure Boot on Apple silicon
  59. Heroines 15: Sappho and the ferryman
  60. Last Week on My Mac: M what?
  61. Heroines 14: The crime of faithfulness
  62. Saturday Mac riddles 272
  63. A brief history of Time Machine
  64. Harriet Backer’s Nordic Light: 1890-1932
  65. Which version of SilentKnight and other apps do you need?
  66. The Real Country: 3 Cutting the corn
  67. Updating macOS with an Installer and in Recovery
  68. Reading visual art: 155 Courts of law B
  69. Where has Safari gone, and why are macOS updates larger for Apple silicon?
  70. Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator
  71. Reading visual art: 154 Courts of law A
  72. Launching apps in Sonoma 14.6.1: Conclusions
  73. Changing Paintings: 35 The tragedy of Cephalus and Procris
  74. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 271
  75. What is Macintosh HD now?
  76. Back to school: paintings 1860-1907
  77. Last Week on my Mac: XProtect tormentor

August 2024

  1. Back to school: paintings 1640-1860
  2. Saturday Mac riddles 271
  3. A brief history of Clarus the Dogcow
  4. Harriet Backer’s Nordic Light: to 1889
  5. Advanced SilentKnight: updating macOS and avoiding updates
  6. The Real Country: 2 The sower
  7. Launching apps in Sonoma 14.6.1: Known malware
  8. Apple has just released an update to XProtect
  9. Reading visual art: 153 Catasterisation and assumption
  10. Launching apps in Sonoma 14.6.1: Reduced security
  11. Reading visual art: 152 Apotheosis
  12. Launching apps in Sonoma 14.6.1: Full security
  13. Changing Paintings: 34 Minos and the Myrmidons
  14. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 270
  15. Links, aliases and the decline of paths
  16. Celebrating the tercentenary of equine artist George Stubbs
  17. Last Week on My Mac: Layered security and herd immunity
  18. Equestrian portraits in honour of George Stubbs
  19. Saturday Mac riddles 270
  20. A brief history of the Finder Alias
  21. An A to Z of Landscapes: Contents
  22. Why launch constraints can crash apps
  23. The Real Country: 1 Under the plough
  24. Dual-booting your Mac with multiple versions of APFS
  25. Reading visual art: 151 Camels in life
  26. Controlling System Integrity Protection using csrutil: a reference
  27. Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator
  28. Reading visual art: 150 Camels in narrative
  29. Sonoma’s unfinished business: exclaves, conclaves and the kernel
  30. Changing Paintings: 33 The origins of Theseus
  31. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 269
  32. How to install a Combo update of recent macOS?
  33. Heroines 12: The many faces of Medea
  34. Last Week on My Mac: Lost Force Click
  35. Heroines 11 & 13: Canace and Laodamia in secret
  36. Saturday Mac riddles 269
  37. A proposed new interface for SilentKnight 3
  38. The Real Country: Paintings of life in the countryside
  39. How to tell if an app is notarized
  40. Edward Poynter’s classical stories: 2 from 1880
  41. What changed in macOS Sonoma? End of term report
  42. Reading visual art: 149 The horse in later narrative
  43. macOS updates are shrinking, but what happened to RSRs?
  44. Reading visual art: 148 The horse in myth and legend
  45. OS X Server 2.2 in August 2012
  46. Changing Paintings: 32 Medea’s murder by proxy
  47. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 268
  48. What’s the time Mr. APFS? With a new version of Precize
  49. Bonington’s brilliant decade of landscape paintings: 2
  50. Last Week on My Mac: What is happening with XProtect updates?
  51. Bonington’s brilliant decade of landscape paintings: 1
  52. Saturday Mac riddles 268
  53. Gatekeeper and notarization in Sequoia
  54. Edward Poynter’s classical stories: 1 to 1880
  55. SilentKnight version 2.10 works better with XProtect updates
  56. A to Z of Landscapes: Zeitgeist
  57. Sequoia changes security data updates: updated utilities
  58. Apple has released Sonoma 14.6.1 and 13.6.9 patch updates
  59. Reading visual art: 147 Swimmers in views
  60. Copy speeds of large and sparse files
  61. Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator
  62. Reading visual art: 146 Swimmers in narrative
  63. How long does Apple support Mac firmware?
  64. Changing Paintings: 31 Rejuvenating Aeson
  65. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 267
  66. What are all those Containers?
  67. Heroines 10: Ariadne’s revenge
  68. Last Week on My Mac: Two betas and one giant leap
  69. Heroines 9: Blood of a centaur and the troubled woman
  70. Saturday Mac riddles 267
  71. A brief history of Directory Services
  72. A to Z of Landscapes: Yellow
  73. System fonts: the delights of San Francisco
  74. Sea of Mists: German Romantic painters
  75. Updates to DelightEd, Podofyllin and Nalaprop for Writing Tools

July 2024

  1. Reading visual art: 145 Divine flight
  2. Delving deep into user accounts in Directory Services
  3. Reading visual art: 144 Human flight
  4. NVRAM in Apple silicon Macs
  5. What has changed in macOS Sonoma 14.6

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