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Month: April 2018

All Out! Paintings of strikes

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Some superb and very different paintings of industrial unrest, an important subject for the Naturalist painters of the late 19th century.

April 17, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Is Apple about to drop QuickTime, DVD and iWork support, and Compressor?

Apple has started the process of naming and shaming those apps which still don’t run in 64-bit mode, […]

April 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

How High Sierra has changed Help

macOS 10.13.4 brought a major overhaul to the Help system, which greatly improves performance and usability. Here are some of its secrets.

April 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 84 – The death of Julius Caesar

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The story of the assassination of the dictator, told by William Blake, Gérôme, von Piloty, and others.

April 16, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Telling which apps are 32-bit: 32-bitCheck does it better

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Checking for 32-bit apps in System Information is not the best way: here’s a free tool to make it easier and more comprehensive.

April 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

Anatomy lessons, autopsies, and surgery: they’re different

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It’s easy to confuse anatomising, an autopsy, and surgery. Here’s a guide to their different readings, with some of the finest example paintings.

April 15, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Apple’s calendar

A close call for Apple this week, as it only just met its own deadline to deliver a 64-bit update to Compressor. For High Sierra only, though. Where does this leave us?

April 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

Louisa Beresford: a truly vanished Pre-Raphaelite

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Visit Ford in Northumberland and you’ll see her murals in the old village school. Taught to paint by Rossetti, she is claimed as a Pre-Raphaelite. Was she?

April 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Comparing files: FileMerge, opendiff, and BBEdit

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How would you compare two text files to see what differences are between them? It’s still a common task, for which FileMerge and BBEdit can be excellent solutions.

April 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

How a New MacBook Pro borked an older iMac’s Bluetooth

Once a new MacBook Pro was updated to 10.13.4, it started to hammer Continuity connections to the iMac (10.12.6), which has AirPort turned off. This blew Bluetooth apart. Log extracts and more info.

April 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

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