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Month: January 2018

What got installed? How to learn exactly what a package contains/ed

Here’s how to find out just what that last update installed, so you can remove it manually if necessary.

January 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

New macOS malware: MaMi

Patrick Wardle, of Objective-See, has just reported what he believes to be new malware running on macOS, which […]

January 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Coast: With Claude at the Coast

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A small selection of the wonderful coastal landscapes painted by Claude Lorrain or Gellée.

January 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Which file systems and Cloud services preserve extended attributes?

Have you been warned not to use extended attributes because they aren’t supported beyond macOS? But they are: here are details of file systems and Cloud services.

January 12, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

A Hard Reality: the paintings of Christian Krohg, 1 – beginnings

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A social realist whose themes spanned controversial topics such as poverty and prostitution, he was a major influence of Edvard Munch, and central to Nordic and northern European art.

January 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Scripting in Swift: Key characters, or what character can’t be key

A hard to spot runtime error results if you try to embed the key < in a dictionary. But when converting plain text for embedding in XML, that's one character you need to substitute.

January 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

SearchKey can now add metadata to batches of files and folders

New batch file mode can add (e.g.) copyright metadata to hundreds or thousands of files. Handles unusual characters properly. Can also remove extended attributes.

January 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Seeing History: Is perspective learned or natural?

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If Brunelleschi had introduced Cubism instead of perspective projection, would that have altered human visual perception?

January 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Where did that metadata come from?

What metadata you are likely to encounter, where it is stored, and how you can view and edit it. A grand tour of the Finder’s Get Info dialog.

January 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Adobe has updated Flash Player

Adobe has just released version 28.0.0.137 of its Flash Player. If you one of the dwindling few who […]

January 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

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