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Month: April 2018

Ferdinand Hodler, View to Infinity, 1903-1906

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His love of rhythm and symmetry became clear in his figurative and landscape paintings, and attained international success at last.

April 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

APFS encryption, ghost guest users, and odd UUIDs

Has someone hacked into your encrypted drive already, or is this another security vulnerability in High Sierra?

April 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS 10.13.4 Security Update 2018-001 and Safari 11.1 (updated)

Apple has just released macOS 10.13.4 Security Update 2018-001, which fixes two vulnerabilities in Crash Reporter and the […]

April 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 85 – The Age of Augustus

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The final article in this series looks at Augustus and Cleopatra, the emperor’s patronage of Virgil, and how Ovid’s own legacy has been transformed in paintings.

April 24, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

What’s that? Using magic on your Mac

Telling what a file is – whether plain text, Unicode UTF-8, 32-bit code, and so on – can be hard. Just use a little magic, free in the command tool ‘file’. Includes Swift code to access magic numbers.

April 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed a security update to MRT, the macOS malware removal tool

Apple has just pushed an update to the macOS malware removal tool MRT, which brings it to version […]

April 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Italian Masters go commercial: the Bridgeman deal is bad for art

Bridgeman Images has acquired rights to images for all the 439 state-owned museums and galleries in Italy. Why this is bad are art historians, art, and culture.

April 23, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Woman Sewing: Slave to the sewing machine

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Did the sewing machine liberate, subjugate, or was it the start of the road to corruption? Contrasting paintings of its impact on women (and men).

April 23, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

32-bitCheck nows checks all code, command tools and dylibs included

New version 1.2 also scans Mach-O files like command tools and dylibs, to check if they are still 32-bit. The only complete check available.

April 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Woman Sewing: By hand 2

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What made images of women sewing so popular in the late 19th century? Here are some of the best from about 1885 to the Nabis in the 20th century.

April 22, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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