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Month: May 2016

The Story in Paintings: Kalevala, Finland’s Epic 1

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Earlier paintings by Ekman, Keinänen, Godenhjelm, and Muukka telling some of the stories from Finland’s national epic.

May 14, 2016 General, Language, Painting

Alternative methods of importing into Storyspace and Tinderbox

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Storyspace and Tinderbox can import a range of other formats, including CSV. This explains how to use that format.

May 14, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.242 update

Adobe has just released its Flash Player version 21.0.0.242. This includes several bug fixes, and addresses some critical […]

May 13, 2016 Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Night Attack on the Sanjō Palace, a Japanese narrative painting

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Preference for water-based paints on paper in Japan allowed artists to show 4 dimensions on a 2D scroll.

May 13, 2016 General, Painting

Out of the mouths of politicians: how will the BBC do that, then?

I hope the changes proposed for the BBC are better thought-out than the claim made during their announcement.

May 13, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: ER Hughes’ flights of fantasy

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He worked as an assistant to Holman Hunt for 15 years, but also painted spectacular watercolours.

May 12, 2016 General, Painting

From database to hypertext: exporting from FileMaker Pro to Storyspace

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Take a FileMaker Pro database, add a little AppleScript, and you can transfer your data into Storyspace or Tinderbox.

May 12, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

FileMaker Pro 15 and QuarkXPress 2016

FileMaker’s major new release is shipping, and QuarkXPress 2016 is due in a fortnight.

May 11, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Into the Light: Harriet Backer, inside and out 2

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Her paintings take you beyond the instant optical gratification of Impressionism, into a great painterly discourse between the inside and outside.

May 11, 2016 General, Painting

The 501 orphan problem: why you shouldn’t delete the primary admin user

To OS X’s Unix heart, you are not a name but a user ID. The first admin user account is 501, and something rather special.

May 11, 2016 Macs, Technology

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