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Where does macOS get its volume free space figures from?
Have you ever wondered where apps like Disk Utility get their figures for free space on volumes, particularly those for purgeable and available space? If you thought they got them from APFS, then I’m...
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Reading visual art: 52 The capital crime of cross-dressing
In yesterday’s look at the fluidity of gender in classical mythology, and its depictions in later paintings, its centrepiece was the very masculine hero Hercules dressed in women’s clothes. More than a...
View ArticleApple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing it to version 96. Apple doesn’t release information about what security issues...
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APFS hard links, symlinks, aliases and clone files: a summary
APFS supports a range of different types of links for files, including hard links, symbolic links (symlinks), Finder aliases, and clone files. This is a short summary of each of them, how they’re...
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Hard reality: 2 Shade and shadow
If painting is about light, so too it must be about the absence of light, darkness, and notably shade and shadow. They’re what transforms a uniform disc into a sphere, and brings features to a face....
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Connecting to the Internet via a phone 21 years ago
Let me take you back 21 years, to the autumn of 2002. It had been a year since the first full release of Mac OS X, when 10.2 Jaguar had just been released, six years before you could buy the first...
View ArticleSaturday Mac riddles 201
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Show in the atelier that vanished for 18 years until 2022. 2: Exhibition for movies until struck by...
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Into the Arctic: A celebration of the paintings of William Bradford 1
Tomorrow, 30 April, marks the bicentenary of the birth of the American marine artist and explorer William Bradford. This weekend I show a small selection of his paintings, and tell of his remarkable...
View ArticleLast Week on My Mac: Secret security
Apple is sadly no stranger to pulling updates. Ever since the days of classic Mac OS, there have been updates that have been rescinded faster than they appeared, sometimes leaving plenty of sick Macs...
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Into the Arctic: A celebration of the paintings of William Bradford 2
In 1869, LeGrand Lockwood, a New York banker and art collector, commissioned the ice-strengthened sealing ship Panther to take the American marine painter William Bradford (1823–1892) and others on an...
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