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Month: March 2018

The Last Naturalist: Émile Friant, 2

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After a series of major paintings in the 1890s, he devoted himself to print-making. An aviation enthusiast, he painted ballooning, and an early air ambulance.

March 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Enduring file references in macOS

First there were inodes, aliases, and links. Finder aliases already use the volfs file system, but Apple wants us to switch to its opaque Bookmarks

March 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Last Naturalist: Émile Friant, 1

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Trained in the same studio as Bastien-Lepage and Gervex, he emerged a bitter critic of academic painting. He painted several masterpieces of Naturalism.

March 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Preview any file from a macOS Bookmark, and an oddity in Quick Look

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Preciziun can now open documents from their macOS Bookmarks, and preview them in Quick Look.

March 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Face that Launched a Thousand Artists: Helen (and Paris)

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Was she abducted, seduced, or seducer? Victim or whore? Ovid’s pair of letters between Helen and Paris raises questions which many artists have tried to tackle.

March 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Pick your Panacea: how to select a generic fix

When should you reset your SMC and NVRAM, repair permissions, install a Combo update, or re-install the whole of macOS?

March 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: Copper rust, Verdigris and Copper Resinate

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What turns statues and copper roofs blue-green? ‘Copper rust’, the basis of the intense green pigment Verdigris, used by all the Masters.

March 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Using macOS Bookmarks as enduring references: Precize and Preciziun

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Wouldn’t it be good to be able to locate important documents using Bookmarks, which endure even when you restart, or move the document? Now you can.

March 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Jules Bastien-Lepage: Avatar of Naturalism, 2

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1882 was a remarkably productive year for him, with a succession of major works, including landscapes, and Naturalist paintings which were dominant long after his death.

March 7, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Common packages: documents which are folders in drag

One of the Finder’s grand illusions, these are standard documents actually composed of a hierarchy of files and folders. Here are some details of common packages.

March 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

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