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Month: April 2018

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, The best of the second half – 1

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Six of the best, from Nessus, Deianira and Hercules to the sacrifice of Iphigeia, painted by Tiepolo, Rubens, and others.

April 30, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

High Sierra’s new improved Help system diagrammed

Key improvements in naming of Help books, use of WebCore to render them, and greatly improved performance.

April 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Fire, Fire 2: London and Frederiksborg Castle are burning

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From Constable and Turner’s views of London’s parliament ablaze, to Edvard Munch’s painting of a local manor house in flames.

April 29, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on my Mac: Consistency and iCloud

Consistency is an overriding design principle for the human interface. However you use iCloud storage, it adopts different behaviours from those of the Finder. Apple needs to evolve the iCloud interface to improve it, and to empower the user.

April 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Fire, Fire 1: Brandjes and Napoleon

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From being a sub-genre of landscape painting in the Dutch Golden Age, to recording the catastrophic fire which destroyed most of Moscow when Napoleon occupied the city.

April 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Getting control over iCloud Drive with Cirrus 1.0b3

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New version gives control over whether files are stored locally, monitors individual files and folders, runs a test upload, and gives log access for diagnostics.

April 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: A white less toxic, Chinese white

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It’s not Chinese, and for centuries was ignored, as lead white was preferred. It came into use during the 19th century, and is seen in paintings by Friedrich, Cézanne, van Gogh, Klimt, and Hodler.

April 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Trying to make sense of iCloud: Progress with Cirrus

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How to open an iCloud document, when macOS can’t open it until it has been downloaded: the dog really did eat my homework this time.

April 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Emil Orlík: the artist who didn’t start hodlering

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A long-time friend of Ferdinand Hodler, he was a fine maker of portrait prints, and documented Hodler at work in sketches.

April 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Problems with iCloud shared data: how to tackle them

What can you do when Notes, Contacts, Calendars or Reminders stop syncing properly via iCloud? Where to look?

April 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

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