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Month: June 2015

Ellipsical Orbits

There are times when the computer industry seems to be scripted straight out of David Lynch’s movie, Mulholland Drive.

June 21, 2015 Macs, Technology

Amazon rewards pageturners in new royalties system

Not content with changing the publishing business, Amazon seems determined to change literature as a whole.

June 20, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology

-14: Installing Mac OS 9.1 (in 2001)

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Among the new features of 9.1 was support for the burning of CDs in the Finder, and Finder support for switching between open windows.

June 20, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: No Delete key

I discovered that my new keyboard does not have a Delete key. Is there an alternative?

June 20, 2015 Macs, Technology

Small but Perfectly Formed

Written a year before the first iPhone, 4 years before the iPad: “Sooner or later, Apple will release a product that lies between current iPods and MacBooks.”

June 20, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Thank and be RESTful: how Twitter, Facebook, and many other apps work

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Almost every app that you run – under OS X or iOS – which communicates with a remote web server will use RESTful APIs somewhere along the line.

June 19, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

New security threats: MacKeeper exploit and more to come?

Phishing attacks are being launched against MacKeeper, and there is a more theoretical problem with sandboxing.

June 19, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Leaping mouse

My mouse pointer keeps jumping to the top left corner of my screen, making work almost impossible. What is causing this?

June 19, 2015 Macs, Technology

Steganographic Slips

Some of our everyday applications employ steganography, usually behind our backs, and without our knowledge or consent.

June 19, 2015 Macs, Technology

Beyond the French Impressionists: 18 USA, Whistler

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Whistler developed a unique style which had much in common with the Impressionists, anticipating several of the key features of Impressionism.

June 18, 2015 Painting

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