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2022-12-26 Sony Imaging Edge: Incompatible with macOS Mojave
2022-01-26 Adobe: “OpenCL and OpenGL are dead on macOS”
2022-01-22 macOS Monterey Displaying some DNG Files with massive Color Smearing / Desaturation
2021-10-26 Adobe Photoshop 2022 — Bye Bye to macOS Mojave Support
2020-12-08 PhaseONE Capture One: “Capture One DOES NOT Currently Support OS 11 Big Sur”
2020-05-12 Apple Safari Web Browser Mangles Large Image on the Latest macOS 10.14.6 Mojave
2020-03-15 Rocking Fast 10-core iMac Pro with 256GB memory that Runs macOS High Sierra
2019-11-14 Nasty Surprise with Apple Software Update: NEC PA302W will no longer Work (UPDATE: how to fix it)
2018-02-27 Thinking About the Apple iMac Pro? Caution Advised
2018-01-07 Testing the Apple iMac Pro + macOS Compatibility Issues with Zerene Stacker and Iridient Developer
2017-12-19 Sony A7R III: Updating the Firmware on macOS High Sierra
2017-11-25 Three Posts Useful for Photographers: 12TB Hard Drives, Avoiding macOS APFS, Partitioning 2TB SSD
2017-11-25 Dealing with macOS HighSierra: Don’t Use It
2017-10-20 Caution on Upgrading to macOS High Sierra: Sony Firmware Updates
2017-06-18 Google Chrome Color Management is Still Broken at least on macOS, but Fix Coming
2016-10-12 Advisory: Google Chrome Color Management is Broken, at least on macOS
2015-12-24 OS X El Capitan (aka El Crapitan) Breaks Lightroom Tethered Shooting for Nikon Cameras?
2015-05-14 OS X Photos App Corrupts Library if used with Leica M Monochrom Files
2015-04-08 Adobe’s Plans for Photoshop and Lightroom for OS X
2014-11-11 Sony Firmware Updater: a Security Risk
2014-11-03 Yet Another OS X Yosemite Issue: Hard-Clipped Blacks in Lightroom (and Safari)
2014-10-20 Caution for Professionals on OS X Yosemite
2014-01-19 Workflow: Quickly Viewing and Organizing Images
2013-09-20 Baffled by Canon PIXMA Pro-100 Printing Options: Different Between Machines
2013-07-20 Sigma Photo Pro Software for Sigma DP Merrill Cameras: Caution before Considering DP Merrill
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2024-03-29 Apple Core Rot: macOS Ventura Destroys (removes) *all* of My Favorite Location
2024-03-20 NEW! Automatic File Version Deletion in macOS Sonoma 14.4
2024-03-01 Extract Text From Password Protected PDF: macOS Image-to-Text Feature
2023-12-19 Backup Best Practices: How to Use Time Machine Optimally With Other macOS Backups
2023-12-19 Upgrading Macos Carries Big Risks for Pro Workflows
2023-12-03 Creating an Encrypted Volume for Backup or Otherwise (video How-To)
2023-11-18 macOS: How to fix unwanted “Hot Corners” Land-Mine Behavior
2023-11-05 iPhone 15 Pro Max: Connects at USB 2.0 speed 9/10 Times
2023-10-25 iPhone 15 Pro Max can Degrade Thunderbolt Peripherals to USB 2.0 Speed
2023-09-29 macOS Ventura 13.6: Command Key Window Shortcuts in Terminal Hardly Work at all Now
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2024-01-20 Apple Forcibly Upgrading Macs to macOS Sonoma without User Permission or Input
2023-07-21 Adobe Photoshop: Blank Windows on macOS Ventura
2022-12-26 Sony Imaging Edge: Incompatible with macOS Mojave
2022-01-26 Adobe: “OpenCL and OpenGL are dead on macOS”
2022-01-22 macOS Monterey Displaying some DNG Files with massive Color Smearing / Desaturation
2021-10-26 Adobe Photoshop 2022 — Bye Bye to macOS Mojave Support
2020-12-08 PhaseONE Capture One: “Capture One DOES NOT Currently Support OS 11 Big Sur”
2020-05-12 Apple Safari Web Browser Mangles Large Image on the Latest macOS 10.14.6 Mojave
2020-03-15 Rocking Fast 10-core iMac Pro with 256GB memory that Runs macOS High Sierra
2019-11-14 Nasty Surprise with Apple Software Update: NEC PA302W will no longer Work (UPDATE: how to fix it)
2018-02-27 Thinking About the Apple iMac Pro? Caution Advised
2018-01-07 Testing the Apple iMac Pro + macOS Compatibility Issues with Zerene Stacker and Iridient Developer
2017-12-19 Sony A7R III: Updating the Firmware on macOS High Sierra
2017-11-25 Three Posts Useful for Photographers: 12TB Hard Drives, Avoiding macOS APFS, Partitioning 2TB SSD
2017-11-25 Dealing with macOS HighSierra: Don’t Use It
2017-10-20 Caution on Upgrading to macOS High Sierra: Sony Firmware Updates
2017-06-18 Google Chrome Color Management is Still Broken at least on macOS, but Fix Coming
2016-10-12 Advisory: Google Chrome Color Management is Broken, at least on macOS
2015-12-24 OS X El Capitan (aka El Crapitan) Breaks Lightroom Tethered Shooting for Nikon Cameras?
2015-05-14 OS X Photos App Corrupts Library if used with Leica M Monochrom Files
2015-04-08 Adobe’s Plans for Photoshop and Lightroom for OS X
2014-11-11 Sony Firmware Updater: a Security Risk
2014-11-03 Yet Another OS X Yosemite Issue: Hard-Clipped Blacks in Lightroom (and Safari)
2014-10-20 Caution for Professionals on OS X Yosemite
2014-01-19 Workflow: Quickly Viewing and Organizing Images
2013-09-20 Baffled by Canon PIXMA Pro-100 Printing Options: Different Between Machines
2013-07-20 Sigma Photo Pro Software for Sigma DP Merrill Cameras: Caution before Considering DP Merrill
2013-06-26 Iridient Developer with Enhanced support for Fujifilm X Files (and Black & White)
2013-03-26 How to Safely Transfer Photos or Verify Backups: IntegrityChecker for OS X
2012-11-21 Sigma Photo Pro 5.4.1 (SPP) for OS X Fixes Crash Problem
2012-09-14 Sigma Photo Pro for OS X and Sigma DP1 Merrill
2012-04-08 Fujifilm SilkyPix Installer for Mac OS X
2011-11-22 Fuji Software for X10 Camera Does not Run on Mac OS X Lion
2011-08-17 Mac OS X Lion: Unable to Print With Epson Stylus Pro 3800
2010-06-30 Photoshop CS5 and Crashing With OS X 10.6.4 with ATI Radeon 4870 and OpenGL on Mac Pro
2009-11-09 Running Mac OS X Snow Leopard with the 64-bit kernel
2009-10-25 Apple’s new MacMini — good for photographers?
2009-08-27 OWC deal on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
2009-08-26 Mac OS X Snow Leopard Special Report
2009-08-22 Mac OS X “Snow Leopard” advice
2009-08-03 Mac OS X Snow Leopard
2009-05-13 Mac OS X 10.5.7: hidden changes
2009-05-12 For sale: Mac OS X Leopard server
2008-11-11 Photoshop CS4 performance bugs
2008-04-07 Samsung 1 terabyte hard drives—not recommended
2008-03-23 Mac OS X Leopard
2008-03-12 Mac OS X Server—save your money
2008-02-21 Now running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2007-11-28 Nikon Capture NX file corruption on Mac OS X Leopard
2007-10-16 Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to ship Oct 26
2007-09-28 Mac OS X Leopard
2007-05-23 Adobe CS3 suite—disables Mac OS X firewall
2007-04-12 Apple Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” delayed until October
2007-04-11 Mac OS X security
2007-04-10 8 core Mac Pro vs 4 core Mac Pro
2007-03-02 Mac Pro memory—installation
2007-01-25 SanDisk 16GB Extreme III compact flash card
2006-12-25 Talking around the real problem—can’t make use of my RAM
2006-11-20 A bad computer day
2006-11-15 Sonnet Tempo™ “interrupt storm”
2006-08-20 How much memory to buy?
2006-03-16 Gigabit ethernet, PowerMac G5, and CPU usage