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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 337

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hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 337. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Passing time at the far right.

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Clock

Passing time (what a clock does) at the far right (it’s the item at the far right of the menu bar).

2: Winks at you when toggling extensions.

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Spotlight

Winks at you when toggling extensions (switch show filename extensions off or on in the Finder, and this icon disappears briefly, then returns).

3: A pair of contradictory toggles for more settings.

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Control Centre

A pair of contradictory toggles (its icon shows two toggle switches, one on and the other off) for more settings (it displays the Control Centre).

The common factor

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They are all shown in the right side of the menu bar.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 337

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: Passing time at the far right.

2: Winks at you when toggling extensions.

3: A pair of contradictory toggles for more settings.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 336

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 336. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Interchange of wealthy words but not plain.

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rich text

Interchange (the format was intended for interchange of documents) of wealthy (rich) words (text) but not plain (not plain text).

2: Microsoft’s proprietary medical practitioner from 1983 until 2007.

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doc

Microsoft’s proprietary (although it has been reversed, it remains proprietary) medical practitioner (a doc) from 1983 until 2007 (although it has changed substantially over that period, it came with Word for MS-DOS in 1983, and was replaced by docx in Word 2007).

3: 2003-2007 = 1,050 afterword.

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WordML

2003-2007 (it was introduced in Microsoft Word 2003, and superseded by Office Open XML in Microsoft Word 2007) = 1,050 (ML in Roman numerals) afterword (after ‘Word’).

The common factor

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They are all text formats supported by textutil.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 336

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: Interchange of wealthy words but not plain.

2: Microsoft’s proprietary medical practitioner from 1983 until 2007.

3: 2003-2007 = 1,050 afterword.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 335

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 335. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Xeon and the first T2 made this the most costly of its line.

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iMac Pro

Xeon (it has an Intel Xeon W processor) and the first T2 (it was the first model to include the T2 chip) made this the most costly of its line (it remains the most expensive iMac).

2: The first laptop with Intel, M1 and M5, it has never quite reached 18 inches.

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MacBook Pro

The first laptop with Intel (Core Duo, 2006), M1 (2020, alongside MacBook Air) and M5 (2025), it has never quite reached 18 inches (the largest has been 17 inches).

3: Last incision went from KeyGrip to Women of Wrestling.

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Final Cut Pro

Last (final) incision (cut) went from KeyGrip (its original name, before it was bought by Apple from Macromedia) to Women of Wrestling (the first full broadcast quality widely distributed TV show produced using FCP, in 2000).

The common factor

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They are all deemed by Apple to be ‘pro’.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 335

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: Xeon and the first T2 made this the most costly of its line.

2: The first laptop with Intel, M1 and M5, it has never quite reached 18 inches.

3: Last incision went from KeyGrip to Women of Wrestling.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 334

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 334. Here are my solutions to them.

1: First fruit at the top left since 1984.

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 Apple menu

First (it’s the first item in the menu bar) fruit (an apple) at the top left (where it is) since 1984 (it has been there since the first Mac).

2: Line of people uppermost for new documents and saving.

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File menu

Line of people (a file) uppermost (it’s in the menu bar) for new documents and saving (it contains the New and Save commands).

3: Formal inspection to customise window from above.

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View menu

Formal inspection (a view) to customise window (what commands in this menu do) from above (it’s also in the menu bar).

The common factor

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They are three of the four standard menus in the Mac since its release in 1984. The fourth is the Edit menu.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 334

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: First fruit at the top left since 1984.

2: Line of people uppermost for new documents and saving.

3: Formal inspection to customise window from above.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 333

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 333. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Black leopard exposé of 2003 could fax.

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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

Black leopard (a panther) exposé (Exposé was one of its new features) of 2003 (released 24 October 2003) could fax (it was the first Mac OS X to come with integrated support for faxing).

2: Officially a 750, it brought the fastest notebook in the world in 1997.

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G3

Officially a 750 (its proper name is the PowerPC 750), it brought the fastest notebook in the world (the PowerBook G3) in 1997 (first Macs with the G3 came in November 1997).

3: Came with a plus, bulging trash and SCSI.

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System 3

Came with a plus (it shipped with the Mac Plus in January 1986), bulging trash (it was the first version of Mac OS to show the Trash bulging when it had items inside it) and SCSI (it was the first version to support SCSI devices).

The common factor

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The number 3, to celebrate Mac Riddles 333.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 333

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: Black leopard exposé of 2003 could fax.

2: Officially a 750, it brought the fastest notebook in the world in 1997.

3: Came with a plus, bulging trash and SCSI.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 332

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 332. Here are my solutions to them.

1: I came in 1998, Bondi blue with USB.

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iMac

I (the start of its name) came in 1998 (it was released on 15 August 1998), Bondi blue (the colour of the first model) with USB (it was the first with USB ports).

2: I came a year later, with a PowerBook ID and AirPort.

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iBook

I (the start of its name) came a year later (it was released on 21 July 1999), with a PowerBook ID (its model ID was PowerBook2,1) and AirPort (it was the first with built-in Wi-Fi).

3: I came two more years later, with the smallest hard disk and LCD, and a thousand songs.

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iPod

I (the start of its name) came two more years later (it was released on 23 October 2001), with the smallest hard disk (5 GB) and LCD (2 inch), and a thousand songs (its launch tagline was ‘a thousand songs in your pocket’).

The common factor

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They each start with the letter i, something initially hated by Steve Jobs, and were aimed at the consumer.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 332

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: I came in 1998, Bondi blue with USB.

2: I came a year later, with a PowerBook ID and AirPort.

3: I came two more years later, with the smallest hard disk and LCD, and a thousand songs.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 331

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 331. Here are my solutions to them.

1: A red Canadian named by Jef and after John came in 1984.

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Macintosh

A red (the fruit is also known as the McIntosh Red) Canadian (it’s the national apple of Canada) named by Jef (the Macintosh was named by Jef Raskin after his favourite apple) and after John (the apple is named after John McIntosh, who discovered it in 1811) came in 1984 (when the first Mac was released).

2: A wonder for cooking led by Larry came in 1993.

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Newton

A wonder (the fruit is known as the Newton Wonder) for cooking (it most commonly is, as it’s too sour for eating uncooked) led by Larry (Apple’s Newton development was led by the late Larry Tesler) came in 1993 (Apple’s Newton was released in 1993, and it was abandoned in 1996).

3: This fruit from Newtown flopped between 1996-97.

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Pippin

This fruit (another apple) from Newtown (the apple is the Newtown Pippin) flopped between 1996-97 (Apple’s Pippin was released in 1996, and abandoned the following year).

The common factor

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They are each Apple products named after varieties of apple fruit.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 331

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: A red Canadian named by Jef and after John came in 1984.

2: A wonder for cooking led by Larry came in 1993.

3: This fruit from Newtown flopped between 1996-97.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 330

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 330. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Sounds like forty to a Roman working with tables to be the best.

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Excel

Sounds like forty to a Roman (XL) working with tables (what it’s for) to be the best (to excel).

2: Four hundred spun up for audio or data.

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CD

Four hundred (in Roman numerals CD) spun up for audio or data (what CDs do).

3: Run as a guest, it could be 995.

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VM

3: Run as a guest (what you do with a virtual machine), it could be 995 (Roman numerals VM).

The common factor

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They can each be expressed in Roman numerals.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 330

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: Sounds like forty to a Roman working with tables to be the best.

2: Four hundred spun up for audio or data.

3: Run as a guest, it could be 995.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 329

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 329. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Two credentials or 762 should be superseded by passkeys.

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2FA

Two credentials (two-factor authentication uses two secrets, such as a password and a PIN code sent separately) or 762 (0x2FA in decimal) should be superseded by passkeys (a modern and more secure replacement).

2: Notably from Autodesk but once by Claris, it’s 3,245.

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CAD

Notably from Autodesk (vendors of AutoCAD and other computer-aided design software) but once by Claris (ClarisCAD, 1989-1991), it’s 3,245 (0xCAD in decimal).

3: From the Mac II until replaced by USB, 2,779 was quite enough.

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ADB

From the Mac II (Apple Desktop Bus, introduced as the peripheral interface for Mac II and SE) until replaced by USB (it was, with the iMac), 2,779 (0xADB in decimal) was quite enough (it didn’t support hot-swapping, which could result in electrical damage).

The common factor

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They are all hexadecimal numbers as well as abbreviations.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 329

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: Two credentials or 762 should be superseded by passkeys.

2: Notably from Autodesk but once by Claris, it’s 3,245.

3: From the Mac II until replaced by USB, 2,779 was quite enough.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 328

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 328. Here are my solutions to them.

1:

Les Cloches du soir
Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926), Evening Bells (1891), watercolour, dimensions not known, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (MNBA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Wikimedia Commons.
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Angels

Schwabe’s painting shows a chain of angels emerging from a belfry.

2:

doredemons
Gustave Doré (1832–1883), The Demons Threaten Virgil (c 1857), engraving, dimensions and location not known. Image by Karl Hahn, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Daemons

Doré’s engraving shows The Demons Threaten Virgil, from his illustrations to Dante’s Inferno.

3: James Bond, Jason Bourne, George Smiley, Modesty Blaise

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Agents

They are each (secret) agents: James Bond from Ian Fleming, Jason Bourne from Robert Ludlum, George Smiley from John le Carré, and Modesty Blaise from Peter O’Donnell.

The common factor

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They are each run by launchd from property lists in folders titled LaunchAngels (new in Tahoe), LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 328

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1:

Les Cloches du soir
Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926), Evening Bells (1891), watercolour, dimensions not known, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (MNBA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Wikimedia Commons.

2:

doredemons
Gustave Doré (1832–1883), [title withheld] (c 1857), engraving, dimensions and location not known. Image by Karl Hahn, via Wikimedia Commons.

3: James Bond, Jason Bourne, George Smiley, Modesty Blaise.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 327

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 327. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Lost rocket platform as an app for your apps.

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Launchpad

Lost (it has been removed from Tahoe) rocket platform (a launchpad) as an app for your apps (what it was, an app for launching other apps).

2: Burning telegraph and lynx now disconnected.

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FireWire

Burning (fire) telegraph (wire) and lynx (Texas Instruments’ name for FireWire, IEEE 1394) now disconnected (support has been dropped from Tahoe, although oddly its kernel extensions are still present).

3: Happy Christmas 2017 is sad September 2025 for the most powerful Mac.

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iMac Pro

Happy Christmas 2017 (although announced the previous June, it shipped in December 2017) is sad September 2025 (it’s one of the T2 models dropped from Tahoe) for the most powerful Mac (when introduced, it was described as “the most powerful Mac ever made”, at least until the Mac Pro 2019).

The common factor

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They have all been dropped from Tahoe.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 327

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: Lost rocket platform as an app for your apps.

2: Burning telegraph and lynx now disconnected.

3: Happy Christmas 2017 is sad September 2025 for the most powerful Mac.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 326

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 326. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Melody containing cocoa plugs the ears.

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AirPods

Melody (an air) containing cocoa (pods) plugs the ears (what they do).

2: Confident bearing of attached label to track your stuff.

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AirTag

Confident bearing (an air) of attached label (a tag) to track your stuff (what it does).

3: Breeze reduction moves files wirelessly.

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AirDrop

Breeze (an air) reduction (a drop) moves files wirelessly (what it does).

The common factor

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They are each prefixed by Air, and work wirelessly.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 326

✇The Eclectic Light Company
hoakley

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: Melody containing cocoa plugs the ears.

2: Confident bearing of attached label to track your stuff.

3: Breeze reduction moves files wirelessly.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor between them.

I’ll post my solutions first thing on Monday morning.

Please don’t post your solutions as comments here: it spoils it for others.

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