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Month: April 2015

Keychain Cops: getting the most out of your keychain

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Everywhere that you go you need user names, passwords, and other means of proving your identity. In OS X and iOS these are normally stored in a keychain.

April 30, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Will Photos import my iPhoto Library?

When I double-clicked on my iPhoto library, Photos appeared to be converting it fine until it reached 71%, when it crashed. Is my master library too large to convert?

April 30, 2015 Macs, Technology

Will we Go or Rust?

If the designers of Go and Rust had read the work of Sapir and Whorf, they would have realised that to accomplish real change in programming requires greater change in the language used.

April 30, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Book review: The Work of Art, Anthea Callen

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This book looks at the type of painting which was central to Impressionism – the plein air landscape – and traces its development from inception by Desportes in the latter years of the seventeenth century, through the Barbizon School, to its peak in the late nineteenth century.

April 29, 2015 General, Painting

Q&A: Keeper not for keeps

Q Years ago I used MacKeeper, but have not had it installed for a long time. Now running […]

April 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

Planned major articles May-July 2015

I am currently planning the following major articles and series for the coming three months: Macs and Technology […]

April 29, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

And For Apple’s Next Trick…

I wrote the following commentary in March 2012, which I reproduce unaltered apart from slight adjustments to paragraph […]

April 29, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Gatekeeper: its defence against malware

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Apple’s products have become more popular with malware authors too. How does Yosemite improve defences against Trojans and other nasties?

April 28, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Who is using my address for spam?

Q I have just been ‘returned’ hundreds of apparently undelivered email messages that I never sent, from Gmail […]

April 28, 2015 Macs, Technology

The End is Nigh?

I am sure that some of the 22,000 tablets in the library of the kings of Assyria at […]

April 28, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

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