Heracles unwittingly sets up his later death when he thinks the centaur Nessus is trying to abduct his wife Deianira, and shoots him in the back with one of his arrows poisoned with the blood of the Lernean hydra.

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 380. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Repository service […]

When transferring the contents of Data volumes, or individual accounts, use Migration Assistant rather than copying or restoring. Here's how.

Paintings by Paul Signac, Evelyn De Morgan, Marsden Hartley, Tom Thomson, Egon Schiele, Julian Onderdonk, Paul Nash, and others.

How an AIR reports proofreading, a Siri request about an image of a painting, and image generation in Image Playground, and the first release of AIRer to help you read your own reports.

Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Inness, Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, Alfred Sisley, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, William Merritt Chase, and others.

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

Changes to keychains, volume structure, Time Machine, Migration Assistant, and the security command tool that have only recently come to light, six months later.

Little is known of one of the greatest of the Venetian masters, and few of his paintings can be attributed with confidence to his hand. He died of plague in the summer of 1510, aged 32-33.

Tahoe 26.4 broke the copying of login keychains. Apple has at last explained how you can copy them successfully, and what backup software needs to do. Explained in full.

Revived in the 19th century, stories painted by JMW Turner, Camille Corot, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Lovis Corinth, Aksel Johannessen and Thomas Hart Benton.

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.