Into the 20th century, fog became a popular compositional device. Examples from Monet, Pissarro, Vallotton, Hodler and others. | Continue reading
Launching an app for the first time used be simple. Now we have the SSV, launch constraints and app translocation to contend with. | Continue reading
Introduced to European painting by JMW Turner and Caspar David Friedrich, fog effects became popular in the later nineteenth century. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A patterned […] | Continue reading
What is that text-encoded data embedded in so many Property Lists? Most are Bookmarks, and here's how to decode them. | Continue reading
From the Dutch Golden Age onwards, they've become fashionable for a while. Examples from Whistler, Turner, Kuindzhi, van Gogh, and others. | Continue reading
Some apps have odd problems when they're run in translocation. Here's how to tell whether they are, and what to do about it. | Continue reading
Inspired by the coastal nocturnes of Claude-Joseph Vernet, Friedrich, Carus and JC Dahl painted them often. Includes a remarkable oil sketch. | Continue reading
Swift source code to accompany article about implementing a document-based app in SwiftUI for macOS. | Continue reading
Implementing a document-based app in SwiftUI for macOS. Fun and games with menus, and what are the differences between FileDocument and ReferenceFileDocument protocols? | Continue reading
A teacher then Director of the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, he also painted narratives. Since his death a century ago, he and his paintings have been forgotten. | Continue reading
A strategy for diagnosing problems using the log. How to limit the number of entries shown using appropriate periods and predicates, and more. | Continue reading
Pan pipes, in paintings by Mikhail Vrubel, Poussin, JW Waterhouse, Franz von Stuck, Titian, and others. | Continue reading
Gatekeeper may decide to run a new app from a random location, in translocation. The rules for this are explained, and how to ensure that doesn't affect your apps. | Continue reading
A relatively small update, with two new private frameworks named Cosmo and Tabi! | Continue reading
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.5, and security updates to Ventura […] | Continue reading
First Perseus turns Atlas to stone for his failure to offer him hospitality. He then flies on to rescue the beautiful Andromeda, who's going to be the next meal for a sea-monster. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 255. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Workshop […] | Continue reading
How the resource forks of Classic Mac OS became extended attributes in Mac OS X 10.4, then flourished. How clone files handle xattrs, and which are used by APFS itself. | Continue reading
Ariadne, Mary Magdalene, a woman with a snake wound around her wrist, Medea after she had been abandoned by Jason, and the unusual story of Cydippe. | Continue reading
Why is SwiftUI so important that the Swift language was changed to make it more feasible to implement? Is it just for ease of multi-platform support? Or is it just greener grass? | Continue reading
The long-running thread in many of his paintings, his quest for visual truth, seen in the blind Michelangelo, the arena, a courtesan on trial, and Truth coming out of her well. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Workshop exhibition […] | Continue reading
You don't need a large network to make a Content Caching server worthwhile. If you've 100 GB or more to spare on an external disk, and a Mac that's running when others are, give it a try. It's simple to set up and use. | Continue reading
Two unusual treatments of popular myths, an enigmatic series of the personification of Truth, two religious works, and a work that inspired Surrealists in the 20th century. | Continue reading
In two years, macOS has gained two more XProtects. Apple's latest Platform Security Guide provides insights into all three XProtects and how they work. | Continue reading
Paul Cézanne led the way in Aix-en-Provence, followed rapidly by Renoir, Signac, Cross, Luce, van Rysselberghe, and Pierre Bonnard. | Continue reading
All apps now undergo Gatekeeper assessment, but only some have XProtect checks for malware, and the unfortunate few get translocated too. | Continue reading
From Friedrich's 'Wanderer above the Sea of Mists' to Carl Friedrich Lessing's 'Silesian Landscape', figures with their back to the viewer. | Continue reading
If the Finder's Get Info dialog may report inaccurate total file size, does that mean the folder sizes are also incorrect? And does this affect volumes too? | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, […] | Continue reading
Waved by Circe and Medea, later in Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered', and by Morgan le Fay in Arthurian legend. Paintings by Poussin, Waterhouse and others. | Continue reading
Swift source code to accompany the article on SwiftUI on macOS: text, rich text, markdown, html and PDF views. | Continue reading
Trying to display formatted text in plain text, markdown, rich text, HTML, and PDF using SwiftUI and in AppKit/WebKit views within SwiftUI. | Continue reading
Juno engages the Furies to drive Cadmus' daughter Ino and her husband mad. With his dynasty ended, Cadmus and his wife end up as snakes. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 254. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Held […] | Continue reading
How to obtain and read entries in the Unified log made by APFS. Their structure, and a guide to their identification and occurrence. | Continue reading
Some of the many major works from the 19th century, from Caspar David Friedrich, through Turner and Constable, to Paul Cézanne, and van Gogh's sunflowers. | Continue reading
Documentation changed to match the bug, seldom-used features that no longer work, and malware protection that devoured parts of Xcode. | Continue reading
A small selection of favourites from its huge and eclectic collection, from Duccio in about 1310 to Joseph Wright of Derby and a gem from Thomas Jones. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Held for […] | Continue reading
As Apple was getting its first PowerPC Macs working, two engineers wrote the first native app for them. But in Mac OS X it was replaced with an inferior app. | Continue reading
Do you use a simulator runtime in Xcode? If so, did the recent (30 April) update to XProtect […] | Continue reading
Tulips to mark a stock market crash and recession, David's lust for Bathsheba, his work as a sculptor, Pygmalion and Galatea, and a summary of his career. | Continue reading
Classic Mac OS could give the size of data and resource forks. High Sierra ignored extended attributes, and Sonoma tries to add them, but only includes some. | Continue reading
For a couple of summers, she visited the Nordic Impressionists at the artist's colony in Skagen. Her painting of their card game is her outstanding work. | Continue reading
Union mounts let you merge the contents of two volumes without copying any files. Do they work as expected in Sonoma's APFS, though? | Continue reading
Apple has just released a further update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it […] | Continue reading