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Month: March 2017

HelpHelp: development version 0.2 is now available

It now sorts the popup menu, and reflexively even has its own Help Book – called, as you’d hope, HelpHelp Help.

March 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

Two Roads to Magical Landscapes: Paul Nash and Nikolai Astrup

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Their landscapes developed a magic distinctive to the artist. Only by direct comparison are their similarities and differences made clear.

March 20, 2017 General, Painting

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Reading Plists, building popups, and more

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How HelpHelp accesses a large nested Property List files, handles its data as arrays, and uses NSHelpManager.

March 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: a tool to search Help Books and debug problems

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First development release of a free tool to examine Help Books, their problems, and search Help for specified apps.

March 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

The Over-Exposed Warrior, the Suicide Pact, and the Almond Tree

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The Pre-Raphaelites lived intense and passionate lives. For Edward Burne-Jones, 1869 and 1870 were almost disastrous, when both art and life became too controversial.

March 19, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Still looking for help

When it was written, Apple’s documentation of its Help system was incomplete and misleading. It simply doesn’t work like that.

March 19, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Painting the Impossible: Smell

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Looking and sniffing at one of the toughest non-visual theme for paintings. Can any go beyond mere allegory and ev0ke the sensation?

March 18, 2017 General, Painting

How reliable is About This Mac’s Storage tab?

In Sierra, does yours work properly, not work at all, or give you incorrect figures?

March 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Nikolai Astrup: Dark Sunlight 5 – 1925-28 and prints

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Some of his last magical paintings of the Norwegian mountains and farms, and a brief overview of the development of his prints.

March 17, 2017 General, Painting

Improving HTML from Tinderbox to Make a Better Help Book

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Tuning HTML export to produce exactly the right files, and tweaking the appearance. But can it also address a search bug?

March 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

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