Frustrated trying to read Apple Intelligence Reports? Try this new app that extracts their useful contents, converts dates, and lays them out to make them accessible and understandable.

Scots pines from Northern Europe, a huge umbrella pine in Saint-Tropez, and maritime pines from the Mediterranean coast, painted by Théo van Rysselberghe among others.

In hardware encryption, keys are kept in the Secure Enclave. Software encryption in APFS has no such luxury, just keybags at container and volume level. This explains when they're created.

Apple has released yet another update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5363, for all Macs. As usual […]

After rescuing Hesione from a sea monster, he wrestled with Achelous for the hand of Deianira in marriage, and created the cornucopia.

Apple has overnight released last week’s update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5362, for all Macs. As […]

How to ensure the external disk has you as its Owner, with a LocalPolicy that allows your Mac to use it as a boot disk. When yo avoid using a DFU port, and negotiating keychain problems.

Apple has just released security updates bringing Golden Gate to 27.0.1, Tahoe to 26.7.1, and Sequoia to 15.8.1. […]

Known now for her illustrations, she was a talented watercolour painter who documented country cottages and life in southern England, and was the first woman to be elected to full membership of the Royal Watercolour Society.

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 379. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brief peep […]

Details including XProtect, XProtect Remediator, Bastion, Kext Exclude List, Incompatible Apps, MRT, GK Opaque and the mystery GKE that is installed then vanishes.

How two members of the Bloomsbury Group battled with John Singer Sargent and destroyed his reputation for nearly 50 years, and reshaped 20th century painting.

Seven burning problems, from encrypted login keychains to problems updating XProtect, have turned the last week into a plate-spinner's nightmare..

How the criticism of John Ruskin unintentionally made it practically impossible to paint landscapes in the latter half of the 19th century.

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

How your Siri AI requests remain private even when processed off-device, by PCC. How a simple request becomes a long and elaborate prompt.

Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5362. However, this week’s […]

She started training at the age of 15 in New York, then in Paris, where for a decade she was one of the most successful American painters, but died soon after her return to the USA.

Do you ever run XProtect Remediator manually? If so, the latest version doesn't oblige. You might need to consider a 3rd party malware scanner.

Twenty-three scenes integrated into Memling's Passion, nine into Tintoretto's huge Crucifixion, and three into Poussin's Gathering the Manna.

Take one Golden Gate VM, tweak its security settings, restart, agree to a long stream of licences, then devise a command to parse and export an attestation bundle and what do you get?

A summary of the development of visible brushstrokes and marks in European painting, from 1400, with links to articles in this series.

Update fixes a cosmetic glitch where the items in the Search menu aren't shown correctly in Golden Gate.

macOS 27 has changed log entries that confirm that an SSD is being trimmed correctly when it's mounted. Full details explain how you can verify Trimming.

Portraits by Sisley, Delacroix, Cabanel, Piet Mondrian early in his career, William Morris Hunt, Astrup, Schwabe, and Claude Monet.

There are 3 sources of records of AI transactions, of which Apple Intelligence Reports are the most important and detailed. But can the user read their contents?

Heracles pays the penalty for multiple murders, as he is subjugated, stripped of his lion-skin and club, dressed in women's clothing, and forced to serve Queen Omphale.

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 378. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Hunting party […]

In APFS, containers, volumes and folders have different properties and features. Choosing the right one, and setting any size options, is an important step in good storage management.

Paintings by Paul Signac, Claude Monet, Félix Vallotton, Millet, John Singer Sargent, Maurice Denis, and others.

Golden Gate's AI features go far beyond Visual Look Up and others. But do they use up too much disk space, and could there be a single switch to turn them all off?

Paintings by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, Virginie Demont-Breton, Lepic, Boudin, Carpentier, Eugène Isabey, Jongkind, Monet, and others.

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

It turns out that macOS Tahoe 26.4 added a new folder and firmlinked it from the Data to System volumes, and it's now seeing light use in Golden Gate.

Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1866, he showed great promise as a history painter until he was killed in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.

For the last 38 days, I have been measuring free and used space in my Mac's boot container and its backup storage. Here's what has happened, and how upgrading to macOS 27 changed it.

Apple has just released its regular update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5360, for all versions of […]

Masaccio's Tribute Money deciphered, and examples from masters including Duccio, Jacopo da Sellaio, Botticelli, Fra Bartolomeo and the Carraccis.

Since macOS Mojave, certain plain text files can never be found by local Spotlight search, because their contents weren't indexed. This has now been fixed in macOS 27.0. Hurrah!

By the 20th century artists were starting to understand why painterly images rich in brushstrokes were often more effective than those in fine detail.

Changes to XProtect and XProtect Remediator in macOS 27 can appear puzzling. And why does it still get MRT from 2022? Plus details of firmware and Recovery systems.

Stag-head oaks that have lost their crown, fallen branches, a small flourish of leaves, a massive trunk that has lost its roots, remains left after felling, the destruction of wildfires and warfare.

How to deal with problems upgrading, a guide to Recovery in case, new Liquid Glass control and an Easter Egg, rounding of rectangle corners, and AI and language support.

Apple has now released the first public version of macOS 27.0 Golden Gate, together with security updates taking […]

He has to steal the belt of the Queen of the Amazons, then steal the cattle of the monster Geryon. As a bonus, he gets two extra tasks, to steal the golden apples of the Hesperides, and finally to fetch Cerberus, guardian of the gates to the underworld.

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 377. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Alpine water […]

Login keychain behaviour changed in Tahoe 26.4, and now ties access to one Mac. That could cause problems, as the most reliable transfer is by two-Mac migration.

Neo-Impressionist and their anarchism from 1890, including Maximilien Luce, Paul Signac, Henri-Edmond Cross and Théo van Rysselberghe.

If it's not the date or features of a new version of macOS that come as a surprise, then what is? It's what birders refer to as jizz, or its feel. What should we look for in Golden Gate?