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Month: March 2018

Pigment: Arsenic, Orpiment and Realgar

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Arsenic sulphides, they were both used in alchemy, and used commonly in paintings from Ancient Egypt through to the late 29th century. Tintoretto loved them.

March 15, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Compound emoji can confuse

If you’re not sure what a ZWJ is, then now’s the time to catch up. How Unicode emoji have made it impossible to count characters.

March 15, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Strikes, Politics, and Zola’s ‘Germinal’: Paintings of Alfred Roll

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Miners on strike in the Nord-Pas de Calais coalfield in 1880, a painting which may well have inspired Γ‰mile Zola to write his most popular novel, ‘Germinal’.

March 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Accessing Finder aliases from the command line: alisma

Create a Finder alias from the command line, and resolve them to full paths – a new free command tool, with source.

March 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has also pushed an update to MRT (updated)

Following yesterday’s pushed update to XProtect, Apple has overnight pushed an update to its malware removal tool MRT, […]

March 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has just pushed an update to XProtect’s security data

Apple has just pushed an update to the configuration data for its XProtect tool, which detects malware on […]

March 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Organ Rehearsal: The paintings, friends, and collection of Henry Lerolle

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His masterpiece is a prime example of Naturalism, but he was a close friend of Degas and Renoir, and a major patron and collector of Impressionism.

March 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

What can you do inside your Time Machine backups?

Time Machine backups look like ordinary files and folders, but you have to be careful what you do to them. Here’s how you can go inside them in safety, and what you can do.

March 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 78 – Aeneas in Italy, and with the gods

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Aeneas reaches Latium, where he founds the precursor to Rome, Alba. Only after war with Turnus, and a series of transformations.

March 12, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Aliases, links, clones, and Bookmarks

Do you know when it would be best to use a hard link? What’s the difference between a Finder alias and a symbolic link? And where to High Sierra’s new clones fit in?

March 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

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