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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 273

By: hoakley
16 September 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 273. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Resign, stop and almost quite is final.

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Quit

Resign (quit a job), stop (quit) and almost quite (it’s quite without the last letter) is final (it’s the last command).

2: Almost all round opens a window first.

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About

Almost (about a number) all round (about a location) opens a window (it opens the About window) first (it’s the first command).

3: Past preferences when celestial bodies sink below the horizon.

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Settings

Past preferences (what it used to be called) when celestial bodies sink below the horizon (when the sun/moon/planets/stars set in the sky).

The common factor

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They are all standard commands in the app menu.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

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Saturday Mac riddles 273

By: hoakley
14 September 2024 at 16:00

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

1: Resign, stop and almost quite is final.

2: Almost all round opens a window first.

3: Past preferences when celestial bodies sink below the horizon.

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 272

By: hoakley
9 September 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 272. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Used by courting birds with a haven for video and audio to replace the others.

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DisplayPort

Used by courting birds (a courtship display) with a haven (a port) for video and audio (it can carry both) to replace the others (intended to replace the answers to 2 and 3, as well as VGA and others).

2: 506 Romans can handle analogue and digital to display.

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DVI

506 Romans (DVI in Roman numerals = 506) can handle analogue and digital (has both DVI-I for analogue support, and DVI-D digital-only) to display (it’s for video output to displays and TVs).

3: With CTA-861, 19 pins and five connectors, it’ll carry all your media, even HDCP.

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HDMI

With CTA-861 (the standards it uses for video and more), 19 pins (in its connectors) and five connectors (it supports five different connectors now), it’ll carry all your media (it will), even HDCP (a form of DRM for use over HDMI).

The common factor

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They are all video interfaces that have been supported by Macs.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 272

By: hoakley
7 September 2024 at 16:00

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

1: Used by courting birds with a haven for video and audio to replace the others.

2: 506 Romans can handle analogue and digital to display.

3: With CTA-861, 19 pins and five connectors, it’ll carry all your media, even HDCP.

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 271

By: hoakley
2 September 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 271. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Table of chapters as the top-level directory.

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Contents

Table of chapters (contents of book) as the top-level directory (it’s the top-level folder in a macOS app bundle).

2: Real estate inventory, personal possessions or XML.

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Property list

Real estate (property) inventory (list), personal possessions (a property list) or XML (how it’s coded in the Info.plist file).

3: Reserves that could be human, such as strings and images.

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Resources

Reserves (resources) that could be human (human resources), such as strings and images (what goes inside the Resources folder in an app).

The common factor

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They are all key parts of a macOS app bundle.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 271

By: hoakley
31 August 2024 at 16:00

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

1: Table of chapters as the top-level directory.

2: Real estate inventory, personal possessions or XML.

3: Reserves that could be human, such as strings and images.

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 270

By: hoakley
26 August 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 270. Here are my solutions to them.

1: The periodical is secure when charged through this attractive force.

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MagSafe

The periodical (mag or magazine) is secure (safe) when charged through this attractive force (it’s a charging lead attached by magnetism).

2: Quick flash followed by thunder for power adaptor and more.

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Lightning

Quick (lightning) flash followed by thunder (lightning) for power adaptor and more (what it’s for).

3: Might of military planes would have been magic for 8 and X until cancelled because of heat.

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AirPower

Might of military planes (air power) would have been magic for 8 and X (it was a wireless charging system announced with iPhones 8 and X in 2017) until cancelled because of heat (Apple cancelled it in 2019 apparently because it got too hot).

The common factor

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They have been used to charge Macs and Apple devices, although the last never made it to market.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 270

By: hoakley
24 August 2024 at 16:00

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

1: The periodical is secure when charged through this attractive force.

2: Quick flash followed by thunder for power adaptor and more.

3: Might of military planes would have been magic for 8 and X until cancelled because of heat.

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 269

By: hoakley
19 August 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 269. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Palmtop with gravity was first with arm for five years.

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Newton

Palmtop (what it was, although Apple coined the term PDA) with gravity (first elaborated as the law of universal gravitation by Sir Isaac Newton) was first with arm (it was Apple’s first device to use an ARM processor) for five years (released in 1993, discontinued 1998).

2: Component framework took aim at OLE for a couple of years.

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OpenDoc

Component framework (what it was) took aim (it was part of the foundation of the AIM Alliance between Apple, IBM and Motorola) at OLE (it was a competitor for Microsoft’s OLE) for a couple of years (released in 1995, discontinued 1997).

3: Blue-sky lab from Larry’s education brought quick things for over a decade.

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Advanced Technology Group (ATG)

Blue-sky lab (what it was) from Larry’s education (it sprung from the late Larry Tesler’s Education Research Group) brought quick things (responsible for Color QuickDraw, QuickTime and its VR and 3D versions, and more) for over a decade (formed in 1986, closed in 1997).

The common factor

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They were all cancelled by Steve Jobs on his return to Apple in 1997.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 269

By: hoakley
17 August 2024 at 16:00

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

1: Palmtop with gravity was first with arm for five years.

2: Component framework took aim at OLE for a couple of years.

3: Blue-sky lab from Larry’s education brought quick things for over a decade.

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 268

By: hoakley
12 August 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 268. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Notice how I appear at the top right then hide under the clock.

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notification

Notice (a notification) how I appear at the top right (where they appear) then hide under the clock (where they disappear to).

2: Watchful modal view demands your attention.

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alert

Watchful (alert) modal view (what it is) demands your attention (it does).

3: Distinguishing emblem as a number on an icon.

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badge

Distinguishing emblem (a badge) as a number on an icon (how it’s displayed on an app icon in the Dock).

The common factor

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They are means of attracting the user’s attention.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 268

By: hoakley
10 August 2024 at 16:00

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

1: Notice how I appear at the top right then hide under the clock.

2: Watchful modal view demands your attention.

3: Distinguishing emblem as a number on an icon.

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 267

By: hoakley
5 August 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 267. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Where the store requires apps and kids to play in safety and grip the rails.

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sandbox

Where the store requires apps (it’s a requirement of the App Store) and kids to play in safety (a sandbox) and grip the rails (also used by railway locos to apply to slippery rails to improve grip).

2: Benefit of a rightful claim to go beyond the confines of 1.

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entitlement

Benefit of a rightful claim (an entitlement) to go beyond the confines of 1 (what an app entitlement does for a sandboxed app).

3: ISO 688 could be intermodal folder for 1, but only in ~/Library.

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container

ISO 688 could be intermodal (a shipping container) folder for 1 (what it is in macOS), but only in ~/Library (the only place you should find them).

The common factor

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They are parts of the app sandbox system in macOS.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 267

By: hoakley
3 August 2024 at 16:00

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

1: Where the store requires apps and kids to play in safety and grip the rails.

2: Benefit of a rightful claim to go beyond the confines of 1.

3: ISO 688 could be intermodal folder for 1, but only in ~/Library.

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 266

By: hoakley
29 July 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 266. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Skipper or proprietor who might also live there as one of the users.

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owner

Skipper (sometimes referred to as the ‘owner’ of a ship or aircraft) or proprietor (owner) who might also live there (owner-occupier) as one of the users (what the owner is).

2: Cluster or band such as staff or wheel.

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group

Cluster (a group) or band (a musical group) such as staff or wheel (two common groups in permissions).

3: The rest may be half or significant to everyone else.

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others

The rest (others) may be half (the other half) or significant (significant other) to everyone else (as in permissions).

The common factor

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They are the three classes used to set permissions.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 266

By: hoakley
27 July 2024 at 16:00

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

1: Skipper or proprietor who might also live there as one of the users.

2: Cluster or band such as staff or wheel.

3: The rest may be half or significant to everyone else.

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 265

By: hoakley
22 July 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 265. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Iron ore, manpower, reserve, fork.

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resource

Iron ore (a natural resource), manpower (a human resource), reserve (a resource generally), fork (a resource fork of a file).

2: Use sedit again for classic customisation thanks to Sumit and Samiran.

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ResEdit

Use sedit again (re-sedit, where sedit is a Unix programmer’s editor) for classic customisation (used to customise apps and more in Classic Mac OS) thanks to Sumit and Samiran (Sumit Bando and Samiran Basak were authors of later versions).

3: Lengthened characteristic object swallowed 1 in X.

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extended attribute

Lengthened (extended) characteristic object (an attribute, e.g. of a deity) swallowed 1 in X (resource forks in riddle 1 were incorporated into Mac OS X as extended attributes).

The common factor

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These are all connected with resources and resource forks in Classic Mac OS.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 265

By: hoakley
20 July 2024 at 16:00

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

1: Iron ore, manpower, reserve, fork.

2: Use sedit again for classic customisation thanks to Sumit and Samiran.

3: Lengthened characteristic object swallowed 1 in X.

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 264

By: hoakley
15 July 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 264. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Lines that never meet in 2006 originated in Russia.

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Parallels

Lines that never meet (parallel lines) in 2006 (when it was first released for Mac OS X) originated in Russia (where its products were first developed).

2: Roman 995 perhaps with ceramics from 2007, now part of an HP descendant.

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VMware

Roman 995 perhaps (could be VM in Roman numerals) with ceramics (ware) from 2007 (when it was first released for Mac OS X), now part of an HP descendant (it’s now part of Broadcom, which originated from Hewlett Packard in 1961, as HP Associates).

3: Emulate and host thanks to Fabrice’s flightless bird from 2003.

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UTM

Emulate and host (it’s both an emulator and virtualiser, and based on QEMU) thanks to Fabrice’s (QEMU was originally developed by Fabrice Bellard) flightless bird (the Emu, the origin of QEMU) from 2003 (when the first code for QEMU was published).

The common factor

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These are all virtualisers for the Mac.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 264

By: hoakley
13 July 2024 at 16:00

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

1: Lines that never meet in 2006 originated in Russia.

2: Roman 995 perhaps with ceramics from 2007, now part of an HP descendant.

3: Emulate and host thanks to Fabrice’s flightless bird from 2003.

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 263

By: hoakley
8 July 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 263. Here are my solutions to them.

1: A small mouthful of liquid for rootless system security.

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SIP

A small mouthful of liquid (a sip) for rootless (an alternative name, from the com.apple.rootless extended attribute that can set SIP on a file) system security (it’s system integrity protection).

2: Helper at the turnstile checks apps at launch.

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Gatekeeper

Helper at the turnstile (what it does in the real world) checks apps at launch (what it does in macOS).

3: Moving a section of chromosome run from a random location.

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Translocation

Moving a section of chromosome (translocation in genetics) run from a random location (what it does in macOS, a quarantined app is launched from a random location).

The common factor

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These are all key parts of macOS security protection.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 263

By: hoakley
6 July 2024 at 16:00

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

1: A small mouthful of liquid for rootless system security.

2: Helper at the turnstile checks apps at launch.

3: Moving a section of chromosome run from a random location.

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 262

By: hoakley
1 July 2024 at 16:00

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 262. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Roll on the interior of what used to be your working surface.

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Wallpaper

Roll (of wallpaper) on the interior (on an inside wall) of what used to be your working surface (it used to be called the Desktop picture until macOS Ventura, but was called Wallpaper in iOS).

2: Tress partition for screen saver options.

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Lock Screen

Tress (a lock of hair) partition (a screen) for screen saver options (what it controls in System Settings. This was new in macOS Ventura, but longstanding in iOS).

3: Movie duration controls display addiction.

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Screen Time

Movie duration (its screen time) controls display addiction (what it’s intended to do. This was introduced in iOS 12 in 2018, and didn’t come to macOS until Catalina).

The common factor

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These are all relatively new items in System Settings that originated in iOS Settings.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

Saturday Mac riddles 262

By: hoakley
29 June 2024 at 16:00

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

1: Roll on the interior of what used to be your working surface.

2: Tress partition for screen saver options.

3: Movie duration controls display addiction.

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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