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What are those XProtects?
A week ago I lamented how the word extension had come to cover several very different things. Today I look at how recent versions of macOS have got two different XProtects, and what each does. My...
View ArticleSaturday Mac riddles 192
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Brisk march for multimedia from 1991, but frozen since Mojave. 2: Rapid information from space to...
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Paintings of pigs 1
In European and North American painting, there’s no shortage of horses, cattle or sheep. Among the common domestic animals that appear least, though, is the pig. This weekend I show a selection of...
View ArticleLast Week on My Mac: Complexities of Thunderbolt hubs
I seldom stick my neck out and make predictions, but if I was looking to sell any Mac peripheral it would be a Thunderbolt 4 hub. Just as with USB-A in the past, no sooner are you marvelling at how...
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Paintings of pigs 2
In yesterday’s article, I showed a selection of portraits of domestic pigs. Today’s sequel looks at these animals in narrative paintings. In Homer’s Odyssey, the hero lands on the island of Aeaea,...
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Thunderbolt 4 hub performance with 3 SSDs
You don’t buy a Thunderbolt 4 hub if you aren’t intending to use its three ports to connect SSDs and other peripherals. This article explores the performance of three full-performance SSDs when...
View ArticleSolutions to Saturday Mac riddles 192
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 192. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brisk march for multimedia from 1991, but frozen since Mojave. Click for a solution QuickTime Brisk march...
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Trojan Epics: 1 Zeus’s plan and a wedding feast
The first epic in this cycle is thought to have been recorded after Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, in the Cypria, but it must have existed in oral versions from about 1200 BCE. Although the original has...
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Getting best performance from Thunderbolt on Apple silicon Macs: a practical...
Of all the external buses we use to connect peripherals to our Macs, Thunderbolt is the fastest and most reliable, and is least likely to disappoint. As the number of peripherals grows, and we each...
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Not Like That: Pigments bogus and destructive
Painters obsess over pigments, and sometimes they become the downfall of their work. Before it could be made artificially, ultramarine cost more than gold, and was often the major determinant of the...
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