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2024-04-09 Astounding Deals: 2020 iMac 5K or 2019 MacBook Pro M1 Max 16-inch

2024-01-20 Apple Forcibly Upgrading Macs to macOS Sonoma without User Permission or Input

2023-12-30 Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max $2000 off — 80% of the Performance for 50% of the Price

2023-12-28 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: GPU Performance and Fan Noise 'Gaming the System'?

2023-12-27 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 16/14-inch Models: Test Results Finalized

2023-12-18 Screencast: 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max Performance Overview 📹

2023-12-16 A 'Steal': Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max

2023-12-09 In Praise of Digital vs Film (v4) + Reader Comments (updated late 2023-12-10 15:12)

2023-11-24 GREAT Deal on Same 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max that I Bought a Few Months Ago

2023-11-24 Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Travel Machine Faster than even my 28-core Mac Pro

2023-11-15 Huge Value in Deeply Discounted Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra

2023-11-12 OWC Drive Speed App: How Fast Can iPhone Video be Recorded to External Device?

2023-11-07 Apple 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: my Perspective on Apple’s Powerful New Laptops

2023-09-25 iPhone 15 Pro Max 48MP DNG: Smeared Detail-Free Garbage

2023-09-19 $2000 off Apple 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra

2023-09-12 iPhone 7 Plus to Apple iPhone 15 Pro

2023-08-27 Satisfaction with the 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra — Almost Everything

2023-08-23 $1800 off Apple 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra

2023-08-16 Back from Trip to Eastern Sierra, White Mountains

2023-08-02 $1900 off Apple 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra

2023-08-01 40% off = $1780 off 14-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max

2023-07-21 Adobe Photoshop: Blank Windows on macOS Ventura

2023-07-19 Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max *** ALL TIME LOW PRICE $1900 Discount ***

2023-07-18 REVIEWED: 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra

2023-07-18 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Buggy Performance with GPU and CPU that Requires Reboot to Fix

2023-07-16 Adobe Camera Raw AI Denoise —  Crashes Ordinary Video Cards

2023-07-12 Putting the 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra into 'Production' Use

2023-07-04 Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Travel Machine Faster than even my 28-core Mac Pro

2023-06-09 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Trading Up

2023-05-22 TODAY ONLY: Massive Discount on Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max

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2024-04-13 Apple Plans to Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips

2024-04-09 Astounding Deals: 2020 iMac 5K or 2019 MacBook Pro M1 Max 16-inch

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

2024-03-17 Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 update

2024-03-01 Extract Text From Password Protected PDF: macOS Image-to-Text Feature

2024-02-28 Apple Core Rot: a Perspective from Jeff Johnson

2024-02-15 Disable macOS Major Software Update Notifications: "defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate"

2024-01-30 How Corporate Security Sloppiness Threatens Your Online Life and How You Can Reduce Your Risk

2024-01-20 Storing Important Data on the Boot Drive is Asking For Trouble — Always Make a Separate Volume

2024-01-20 Botchware: Apple Forcibly Upgrading Macs to macOS Sonoma without User Permission or Input + How to Defeat Upgrades

2024-01-19 The Silent Epidemic Eating Away Americans’ Minds — screen time

2024-01-11 China Says It Cracked Apple’s AirDrop Encryption to Track Senders

2024-01-08 One Screenshot that Captures Everything Wrong with Apple

2024-01-06 Apple M3 Ultra/M4 Ultra: What to Expect for Computing Grunt in 2024

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2024

2024-04-09 Astounding Deals: 2020 iMac 5K or 2019 MacBook Pro M1 Max 16-inch

2024-01-20 Apple Forcibly Upgrading Macs to macOS Sonoma without User Permission or Input

2023

2023-12-30 Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max $2000 off — 80% of the Performance for 50% of the Price

2023-12-28 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: GPU Performance and Fan Noise 'Gaming the System'?

2023-12-27 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 16/14-inch Models: Test Results Finalized

2023-12-18 Screencast: 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max Performance Overview 📹

2023-12-16 A 'Steal': Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max

2023-12-09 In Praise of Digital vs Film (v4) + Reader Comments (updated late 2023-12-10 15:12)

2023-11-24 GREAT Deal on Same 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max that I Bought a Few Months Ago

2023-11-24 Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Travel Machine Faster than even my 28-core Mac Pro

2023-11-15 Huge Value in Deeply Discounted Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra

2023-11-12 OWC Drive Speed App: How Fast Can iPhone Video be Recorded to External Device?

2023-11-07 Apple 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: my Perspective on Apple’s Powerful New Laptops

2023-09-25 iPhone 15 Pro Max 48MP DNG: Smeared Detail-Free Garbage

2023-09-19 $2000 off Apple 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra

2023-09-12 iPhone 7 Plus to Apple iPhone 15 Pro

2023-08-27 Satisfaction with the 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra — Almost Everything

2023-08-23 $1800 off Apple 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra

2023-08-16 Back from Trip to Eastern Sierra, White Mountains

2023-08-02 $1900 off Apple 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra

2023-08-01 40% off = $1780 off 14-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max

2023-07-21 Adobe Photoshop: Blank Windows on macOS Ventura

2023-07-19 Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max *** ALL TIME LOW PRICE $1900 Discount ***

2023-07-18 REVIEWED: 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra

2023-07-18 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Buggy Performance with GPU and CPU that Requires Reboot to Fix

2023-07-16 Adobe Camera Raw AI Denoise —  Crashes Ordinary Video Cards

2023-07-12 Putting the 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra into 'Production' Use

2023-07-04 Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Travel Machine Faster than even my 28-core Mac Pro

2023-06-09 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Trading Up

2023-05-22 TODAY ONLY: Massive Discount on Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max

2023-05-22 Deeply Discounted Used & New Macs at OWC

2023-05-10 TODAY ONLY: $1600 Off MacBook Pro 64GB/2TB M1 Max = Only $2499

2023-05-02 TESTED: Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max vs Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max

2023-04-28 Got One: Deeply Discounted Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max + Monterey vs Ventura

2023-03-03 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Good Choice to Replace a Destkop Computer?

2023-02-17 Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Blows Away Intel Macs on Almost Everything; High-End Workstation Masquerading as Laptop

2023-01-31 All Too Often: the Garbage Image Quality of Camera Phones with HEIC or JPEG

2023-01-30 Reader Comment on 16-Shot Sony Pixel Shift: “360 MP images looks terrific... but does this matter?”

2023-01-17 Apple MacBook Pro M2 Max

2022

2022-12-26 Sony Imaging Edge: Incompatible with macOS Mojave

2022-09-07 Announced: Hasselblad X2D-100C with 100 Megapixel Sensor, IBIS, Phase-Detect AF

2022-07-13 TESTED: CFExpress Type B Camera Cards, OWC Atlas Pro and OWC Atlas Pro Ultra

2022-06-22 REVIEWED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra — Now with Updated Results for Photoshop CC 23.4.1 — Big Speed Improvements

2022-06-21 Adobe Releases Photoshop CC 23.4.1 — FIXES Serious Performance Bugs on Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra

2022-06-13 Is the Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra the Ultimate Photo Workstation?

2022-05-12 Apple Mac Studio: Hard to Get Makes it Impossible to Review

2022-03-11 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Estimated Performance: Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop

2022-03-09 Apple Mac Studio with M1 Ultra Looks to Offer Thrilling Performance

2022-01-29 Adobe Photoshop Vertical Line Artifacts after Smart Sharpen on Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max

2022-01-26 Adobe Photoshop: Vertical Line Artifacts after Smart Sharpen on Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max

2022-01-26 TESTED: Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max — a Stunning Performer That Crushes Intel-Based Macs

2022-01-26 Adobe: “OpenCL and OpenGL are dead on macOS”

2022-01-22 Beware of Claims for Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max Speed Gains Over Intel! OpenCL on/off can be win/lose

2022-01-22 macOS Monterey Displaying some DNG Files with massive Color Smearing / Desaturation

2021

2021-12-18 Apple MacBook Pro M1 Pro/Max: Hard to Come By, but Some are In Stock

2021-12-13 In Praise of Digital vs Film (UPDATED, v3)

2021-10-26 Adobe Photoshop 2022 — Bye Bye to macOS Mojave Support

2021-10-24 Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max: a Few Things To Note for Photographers

2021-10-22 Reader Question: Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max vs Desktop

2021-10-20 Bang for the Buck: $2899 for a Loaded iMac 5K with Gorgeous Display, or $5K for an Apple MacBook Pro M1X?

2021-10-19 Apple 16" M1X MacBook Pro: Can it Beat the 2019 iMac 5K and the 2019 Mac Pro 28-Core for Most Tasks?

2021-10-18 Apple 14/16-inch MacBook Pros Here, with M1 Max or M1Pro CPU — and Why a Desktop is Often Better than a Laptop 

2021-01-08 OWC Elektron USB-C SSD Trounces the Samsung T7

2020

2020-12-09 LG 5K Display: Cannot Get Rid of Greenish Tint, Makes it Unusable for Color Work

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

2020-02-07 Apple Pro Display XDR with Nano Texture Glass  — the Shortest but Most Useful Review You’ll Find on the Web —  and Why the NEC PA302W Rocks

2020-02-06 Apple Pro Display XDR with Nano Texture Glass  — Here Tomorrow for Evaluation

2020-01-19 For Mac/Windows/Linux/etc — diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.3b5 Now Available — Includes Automated Install Script for macOS users

2020-01-11 Major Data Loss Today — But Luckily I Had Just Made Several Backups

2019

2019-12-10 Apple Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR Now Available for Pre-Order at B&H Photo

2019-12-08 Apple Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR to be Available for Ordering December 10 — Consult with Lloyd for your own Workflow Needs

2019-11-19 Reader Comments/Questions on the Apple 2019 MacBook Pro

2019-11-14 Nasty Surprise with Apple Software Update: NEC PA302W will no longer Work (UPDATE: how to fix it)

2019-09-19 Sony A7R IV vs Lens Quality Control (all brands), Actual Increase in Resolution over the Sony A7R III

2019-09-12 Reader Comment: “iPhone 11 Pro/Pro Max is a pivot point”

2019-07-03 Apple Pro Display XDR: the Best Viewing Experience in History for Images?

2019-06-21 Nikon/Canon/Sony Image Quality SUCKS vs Multi-Shot High-Res Mode — Golden Age of Photography Makes me Gripe that Best Ever Cameras Could be Way Better!

2019-06-04 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: Everything I Want... but Truly High-End and Unaffordable for Most

2019-03-13 Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG HSM Art Aperture Series @ 24mm: Alabama Hills Rainstorm Creek (Nikon D850)

2018

2018-11-06 Revenge of the Beaver: Lundy Canyon Road Blocked by Felled Aspen

2018-09-27 Zeiss ZX1 Fixed-Lens Camera

2018-09-15 Back from Eastern Sierra

2018-07-22 Tired of a Weak Cell Signal in your Vehicle? The WeBoost Cell Signal Booster Works Great!

2018-06-28 Luxli Cello RGBAW LED Light: Great in My Sprinter Van, iPhone Controls it, My Daughter Loves It

2018-05-14 Loving the Luxli Cello RGBAW LED Light, Perhaps Not for Its Designed Purposes (yet), in my Sprinter Van it Solves a Need

2018-04-19 In North Zion

2018-02-27 Thinking About the Apple iMac Pro? Caution Advised

2018-01-18 Sony “Fixes” Support for macOS High Sierra Firmware Updater by Doubling Down on Severe Security Risks.

2018-01-16 Sony Firmware Updates Are Both Broken with macOS High Sierra + Carry a Serious Security 'RootKit' Security Risk on all macOS Versions

2018-01-07 Testing the Apple iMac Pro + macOS Compatibility Issues with Zerene Stacker and Iridient Developer

2017

2017-12-25 New iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc? Cables and Related

2017-12-19 Sony A7R III: Updating the Firmware on macOS High Sierra

2017-12-17 Family Fun: Ice Skating on Lundy Lake

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

2017-11-13 iPhone Panos Suck; iPhone Panos Rock: Panoramic Images of Saddlebag Lake / Hoover Wilderness Area

2017-11-05 Good Evening, from 11-6

2017-10-20 Caution on Upgrading to macOS High Sierra: Sony Firmware Updates

2017-09-19 CNET: 'Even high-end DSLR can't achieve the kind of exposure that iPhone 8 Can'

2017-06-18 Google Chrome Color Management is Still Broken at least on macOS, but Fix Coming

2017-06-06 Sierra Melt: Grant Lake Overflows, Brings Hope for Mono Lake Water Level

2017-06-04 Backside of Mono Lake Area

2017-05-30 Sierra Snowpack, Hwy 120 Status

2017-03-25 Really Right Stuff Panorama and Gimbal Heads, Plus New “Shorty” Tripod

2017-01-15 Bill Atkinson’s “Photo Card” for iPhone/iPad: Tangible Internet-Age Postcards

2016

2016-11-20 ProCamera App for iPhone with DNG support and Many Useful Controls

2016-11-20 Frosty Shooting

2016-10-12 Advisory: Google Chrome Color Management is Broken, at least on macOS

2016-09-21 iOS 10 Supports Color Spaces

2016-09-10 Apple iPhone 7: New Features I Like

2016-09-07 iPhone 7 Sports Retina HD Screen with DCI-P3 Color Gamut and “Wide” Color Capture

2016-09-07 Color Gamut Example: Glacial Blue Lake

2016-08-22 Panoramas with Zeiss Batis 18mm f/2.8 Distagon (Oneida Lake)

2016-08-13 Reviewed: Anker Power Port Solar 21W Solar Panel + Fenix RC09 LED Flashlight

2016-07-31 REVIEWED: GOAL ZERO Yeti 15 Solar Battery Pack and Nomad 7, Nomad 20 Solar Panels

2016-07-07 iPhone Panoramas In Depth: Shooting & Post Processing Tips, Numerous Examples up to 11K Resolution

2016-07-05 Panoramas with the iPhone

2016-06-28 Panoramas with the iPhone

2016-01-03 100 Megapixels: Phase One Ships Its XF 100MP Camera System

2015

2015-12-24 OS X El Capitan (aka El Crapitan) Breaks Lightroom Tethered Shooting for Nikon Cameras?

2015-12-10 Instant Rebates on all Macs, $100 Off Apple Watch

2015-11-09 Wile E Coyote

2015-10-07 Reader Comment: Big DSLR Price Cuts, Why?

2015-08-18 Charging iPhone, iPad, Some Cameras, any USB-Chargeable Device: Lupine USB One

2015-07-02 Panasonic DMC-DM1P: a Camera that is a Phone, now in stock

2015-06-08 Apple iPhone is a Phone with Camera, Panasonic DMC-DM1P is a Camera with Phone

2015-05-14 OS X Photos App Corrupts Library if used with Leica M Monochrom Files

2015-04-21 Deals: Technics RP-DH1250-S Headphones with iPhone mic

2015-04-08 Adobe’s Plans for Photoshop and Lightroom for OS X

2015-03-27 Emerging Features that Are Essential: Make the Camera Work for YOU

2014

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

2013-12-05 Sony A7R: the Kitchen Sink Menu System Design Paradigm is Alive and Well

2013-10-11 iPhone 5s White Balance and Using JPEG vs DNG

2013-09-24 iPhone 5s vs Nokia Lumia 1020 Camera Phones (Oversampling and Downsampling)

2013-09-20 Baffled by Canon PIXMA Pro-100 Printing Options: Different Between Machines

2013-09-18 Old Geezers Need an EVF: the Rear LCD and Presbyopia are a Bad Combination For Aging Eyes

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)

2013-04-27 Form Factor and Camera Appeal

2013-04-10 Leica M Typ 240: GPS Deactivated in Some Areas

2013-03-26 How to Safely Transfer Photos or Verify Backups: IntegrityChecker for OS X

2012

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

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

2010-07-28 iPhone 4 really does suck

2010-06-30 Photoshop CS5 and Crashing With OS X 10.6.4 with ATI Radeon 4870 and OpenGL on Mac Pro

2010-05-20 Apple Store and iPad = awful experience

2009

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

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

2007-11-28 Nikon Capture NX file corruption on Mac OS X Leopard

2007-11-15 Apple Safari browser — for Mac and Windows

2007-10-16 Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to ship Oct 26

2007-09-28 Mac OS X Leopard

2007-09-06 Apple iPhone price drop

2007-08-14 Wish list—iPhone marries Canon EOS 1D Mark III

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

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