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Month: July 2017

High Sierra and filenames: Apple is relenting

Apple is making adjustments to its new APFS file system for iOS. Will that bring similar improvements in compatibility to High Sierra?

July 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 31 – Tereus, Philomela and Procne

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One king trusts his daughter into the care of his son-in-law, another king. What happens next is horrific, and shown brilliantly by Artemisia Gentileschi and Rubens.

July 4, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Diving even deeper into preferences

Problems with preference files can easily crash an app, even when the file looks fine, and its permissions are correct. Here’s why and how.

July 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Tom Thomson: Canada from a Canoe, 1915 (1)

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In a very prolific year, he made a view finished paintings on canvas, but the great majority were plein air oil sketches, of which some of the best are shown here.

July 3, 2017 General, Painting

Mangle that text more with Dystextia 1.2

This new version has performance improvements, and can now encode almost every character in normal English text to an obscure Unicode codepoint. Total obfuscation!

July 3, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Blowhole 2 can now write any string you like into the log

Want to write to Sierra’s log from a language or app which doesn’t give easy access? Use this free tool which now writes anything you want.

July 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Joan of Arc: 2 The Life

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Her image has been used by the French nation, the Catholic church, Napoleon, revanchists, romantics, feminists, and now the extreme right. Here are some of those powerful paintings.

July 2, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Next Weeks on My Mac: Where to go with the log?

Looking forward to the new features in Consolation version 3. Please comment and make suggestions.

July 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

Joan of Arc: 1 The Call

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She has been a symbol of French nationalism, of the revanchism following the Franco-Prussian War, and then of early feminism: some wonderful paintings of Joan’s divine visions.

July 1, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Apple has pushed silent updates to Gatekeeper and MRT data

Apple has pushed out silent updates to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 115, and to MRT […]

July 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

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