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Month: April 2016

Keeping cool: how to stop your Mac from overheating

Summer is allegedly coming: the season when your Mac could see its harshest use. Does yours get too hot?

April 26, 2016 Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Poussin’s Empire of Flora

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More myths in a single painting than you’ll see anywhere else. But do they come together to form another narrative?

April 25, 2016 General, Painting

How Apple’s Superdrive enforces obsolescence

If your old Mac’s optical drive fails, Apple wants you to buy a new one – and its USB Superdrive, which won’t work with the old Mac.

April 25, 2016 Macs, Technology

Palmyra, paintings, and cultural vandalism

Vasari praised Masaccio’s fresco, then six years later painted over parts of it, and put his altarpiece in front, obscuring it for nearly 300 years.

April 24, 2016 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Brief Candles: Masaccio part 2

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His final frescoes were an inspiration to Michelangelo and others in the Renaissance, and include one of the greatest paintings in Europe.

April 24, 2016 General, Painting

Brief Candles: Masaccio part 1

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The first few years of his short career, in which he modelled faces and clothes to bring volume, and started perspective projection.

April 23, 2016 General, Painting

Known bugs in El Capitan 10.11.4: an incomplete summary

The list is a little shorter than for 10.11.3, but some old favourites are still there.

April 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

Achieving the right perspective

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The importance of perspective in Western painting is hotly debated, but there is no doubt that is has brought about very visible change.

April 22, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

Endtime for QuickTime?

In 1996, QuickTime had no serious competition, was very cross-platform, elegant, and highly practical. Yet now it is dying.

April 22, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Java 8u91 update with important security fixes

Oracle has just released Java 8u91, which contains 9 new security fixes and is a recommended update for […]

April 21, 2016 Macs, Technology

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