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More than a Nabi 3: Félix Vallotton 1907-1914

Did you know your photos are being syndicated?

Reading Visual Art: 238 Bread of life

How online search and AI can install malware

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

The Dutch Golden Age: Stories

Hunting extended attributes with an update to xattred

Medium and Message: Oil on paper

Create a bootable external disk for Apple silicon Macs in Tahoe

Painted stories of the Decameron: The pot of basil

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 337

Who decides to quarantine files?

Fog on the Thames 1900-1926

Last Week on My Mac: Making better use of security extended attributes

Fog on the Thames 1844-1899

Saturday Mac riddles 337

Explainer: Numbers

More than a Nabi 2: Félix Vallotton 1900-1906

Quarantine, MACL and provenance: what are they up to?

Reading Visual Art: 237 Blacksmith

The Anatomy of a macOS App

The Dutch Golden Age: Jan Miense Molenaer

Manage Login and Background items

Medium and Message: On a cigar-box

How to restart Spotlight, and why you might want to

Painted stories of the Decameron: A father’s revenge

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 336

Textovert 1.1 can now convert PDF files to other formats

The earthly delights of Hieronymus Bosch 2

Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence

The earthly delights of Hieronymus Bosch 1

Saturday Mac riddles 336

Explainer: PDF format

More than a Nabi 1: Félix Vallotton 1885-99

Explainer: Text formats

The Dutch Golden Age: Aelbert Cuyp 2

Podofyllin 1.5 beta can export PDF to RTF

The Dutch Golden Age: Aelbert Cuyp 1

Inside the Unified Log 8: Find the error

Medium and Message: En plein air

Textovert 1.0: a convenient wrapper for text conversion

Painted stories of the Decameron: Nastagio degli Onesti’s breakfast

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 335

Convert text between file formats, including webarchives

Painting along the Loing: Moret

Last Week on My Mac: The mystery of Safari’s Web Archives

Painting along the Loing: Grez

Saturday Mac riddles 335

Explainer: Data and metadata

Reading Visual Art: 236 Carpenter

Does Preview write PDF/A?

The 400th anniversary of the birth of Paulus Potter

Diagnose Spotlight local search problems

The Dutch Golden Age: Winter

Viewing metadata in the Finder

Medium and Message: Glazes and optical effects

Which local file systems does macOS 26 support?

Painted stories of the Decameron: Introduction

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 334

How to save web pages using Safari

In Memoriam Sofonisba Anguissola, who died 400 years ago

Last Week on My Mac: Five Tahoe bugs

Four great women painters after Sofonisba Anguissola

Saturday Mac riddles 334

Explainer: .DS_Store files

Reading Visual Art: 235 Fish B

How the Clock hoards timers until it breaks

Reading Visual Art: 234 Fish A

Does that SSD Trim, and why is it important?

The Dutch Golden Age: Chiaroscuro in Utrecht

Erase All Content and Settings does what it says

Medium and Message: Varnish and the mists of grime

Big guns for Tahoe problems: which radical fixes still work?

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 16 Overview, Purgatory and Paradise

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 333

How to install security updates without upgrading to Tahoe

Impressionists at Argenteuil 2

Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe 26.1 disappointments

Impressionists at Argenteuil 1

Saturday Mac riddles 333

Explainer: Permissions, privacy and TCC

Botticelli’s studio

Inside the Unified Log 7: Claude diagnoses the log

Reading Visual Art: 233 Sirens

How Tahoe 26.1 has enabled automatic security updates

The Dutch Golden Age: Water

Appearance revisited: Get Tahoe 26.1 looking in better shape

Apple has released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Early bugs in macOS Tahoe 26.1: VMs and Finder Services

Medium and Message: Industrial chemistry

What has changed in macOS 26.1 Tahoe?

What can I do with my apps?

Apple has released macOS 26.1 Tahoe, and security updates to 15.7.2 and 14.8.2

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 15 Lucifer himself

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 332

Why old installers may not work

The way of the Spartans 2

Last Week on My Mac: What do those CPU frequencies mean?

The way of the Spartans 1

Saturday Mac riddles 332

Explainer: Preferences

Gustave Doré’s paintings: After the war

When time is out of joint, the log falls over

Gustave Doré’s paintings: Before the war

Updated CPU core frequencies for all current Apple silicon Macs

The Dutch Golden Age: Jacob van Ruisdael’s trees

Disentangling timestamps with Dropera 2

Medium and Message: Soot and milk

Updating CPU frequencies for Apple silicon Macs

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 14 Count Ugolino

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 331

Should you repair permissions?

Louveciennes landscapes: After the war

Last Week on My Mac: Why Spotlight can’t find some files

Louveciennes landscapes: Before the war

Saturday Mac riddles 331

Explainer: How does macOS recognise file types?

Reading Visual Art: 232 Alchemy

Be careful when interpreting APFS timestamps

The Dutch Golden Age: Johannes Vermeer 2

A Spotlight bug affecting all recent macOS: the LG error

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

The Dutch Golden Age: Johannes Vermeer 1

Gain access to a locked Mac with Recovery Assistant

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Medium and Message: Sticks and crayons

Rewriting a file’s history

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 13 Treachery

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 330

LogUI build 77 improves readability of log entries

A painterly family: the Alma-Tademas 1884-1943

Last Week on My Mac: The quiet firmware revolution

A painterly family: the Alma-Tademas 1836-81

Saturday Mac riddles 330

Explainer: FileVault

Reading Visual Art: 231 Tiger

Inside the Unified Log 6: Difficult times

Commemorating the centenary of Christian Krohg’s death

Check if an app is stuck in translocation

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

The Dutch Golden Age: Ordinary people

Check your Mac is secure

Medium and Message: Surface texture

Inside the Unified Log 5: Navigation

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 12 Fraud and inciting division

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 329

Is Tahoe quicker to launch apps first time?

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Impressionism

Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe’s elephant

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Barbizon

Saturday Mac riddles 329

Explainer: How is XProtect’s data updated?

Reading Visual Art: 230 Wolf

How to migrate macOS virtual machines

Christian Krohg painting social reality 4: 1898-1924

What to do when your Mac can’t get to the login window

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

The Dutch Golden Age: Nocturnes

Resolve a file’s path from its inode number

Medium and Message: Knives, fingers and long brushes

What to do when APFS has problems

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 11 Bribery, hypocrisy, theft

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 328

Inside the Unified Log 4: Log entries

The Journey of Life 2

Last Week on My Mac: Has macOS virtualisation ground to a halt?

The Journey of Life 1

Saturday Mac riddles 328

Explainer: inodes and inode numbers

Reading Visual Art: 229 Celestial events

Welcome to Tahoe’s Launch Angels

Christian Krohg painting social reality 3: 1888-95

Why did that macOS upgrade take so much space?

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

The Dutch Golden Age: Everyday life of Gerard ter Borch

LogUI 1.0 build 74 adds a Diagnostics Tool for your logs