Explainer: System Management Controller (SMC)
From the earliest Mac, Apple’s hardware has relied on a combination of processors and chipsets designed and made by other companies, together with its own custom chips to handle special functions....
View ArticleSaturday Mac riddles 114
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Incomplete instruction to locate tags and friends. 2: For just four months, Lisa was forty in Rome. 3:...
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Thomas Seddon: bicentenary of a Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter
On 28 August 1821, exactly two centuries ago today, one of the few dedicated Pre-Raphaelite landscape painters was born in London: Thomas Seddon (1821–1856). His father was a successful cabinetmaker,...
View ArticleLast Week on My Mac: Queue-jumping, hints and deep integration
If the time we spend in them is anything to go by, we must love queues. Whether you’re trying to check out at the tills or enter a foreign country, you can expect to have to queue. Nowhere are queues...
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Harvest moon: Palmer’s enchanted countryside
This is the time of year when farmers often work long into the night bringing in the harvest, traditionally by the light of the harvest moon. These days it’s not moonlight, of course, but the dazzling...
View ArticleHow to recover a Mac from a kernel panic
There was a time when macOS drew attention to a kernel panic, with a distinctive multi-lingual explanation shortly before the Mac restarted. These days, it’s like a guilty secret: your Mac restarts for...
View ArticleSolutions to Saturday Mac riddles 114
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 114. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Incomplete instruction to locate tags and friends. Click for a solution Find My Incomplete (it’s an...
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Don Quixote: Book 1 summary and contents 2
This is the second of two articles which provide a table of contents, summary and selected paintings for the first book of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. The group escorting Don Quixote from the...
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Powering your Mac: power filters and UPS
When you next shut your Mac down, time how long it takes between choosing the command and its screen going black. Although not as long as starting up, there’s a lot more to shutting down than even...
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Still Life History: 0 Contents
This gives an overview of the series of articles covering the history of still life painting. Articles are divided into sections covering the history, reasons for painting still lifes and special...
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