Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs, painting, and more
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • M1 Macs
  • Mac Problems
  • Mac articles
  • Art
  • Macs
  • Painting

Month: July 2018

The Franco-Prussian War: Depicting defeat

T T Read More

In the late 19th century, painting was centred on Paris. But in 1870-71, the city was all but destroyed after a long siege, in the Franco-Prussian War. The story told in paintings.

July 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

LockRattler 4.7.1 checks log privacy and reports Mojave releases

T T Read More

Recommended for Sierra, High Sierra, and particularly Mojave users, this adds a new feature to check whether log privacy is enabled, and gives Mojave version numbers.

July 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Too Real: the narrative paintings of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 4

T T Read More

Several pro-Empire paintings, including the story of Cleopatra’s seduction of Caesar, as the Suez Canal was being built. Then his most famous painting of all: Pollice Verso.

July 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Better natural language processing in Mojave

T T Read More

Parsing multiple languages in the same text, discovering which parse types are supported in a language, and finding ‘roots’ of words.

July 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

What is installed on a 2018 MacBook Pro by the Supplemental Update?

As Apple still hasn’t provided any detailed information about security or other updates which were provided in its […]

July 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto, 1: The Fables of Ovid

T T Read More

In the first few years of his career, he was commissioned to paint a series showing stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. They are simply brilliant.

July 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Four serious security errors which are easily made on a Mac: how to fix them

T T Read More

Over the last year, I have come across many Macs which have been left with serious vulnerabilities. Here are four common ones, and how to put them right.

July 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Supplemental update for MacBook Pro 2018 models with Touch Bar

Apple has just released a Supplemental Update for the latest (2018) MacBook Pro model with Touch Bar. It’s […]

July 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pierre Bonnard: Marriage and the Coast, 1924-1926

T T Read More

They start moving to Le Cannet, on the Mediterranean coast, and marry at last. He returns to painting intimate scenes of Marthe, notably of her in the bath.

July 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Signposts for performance: 2 Instruments

A detailed exploration of how to use Signposts to investigate performance of your code, and the limitations of Apple’s tools.

July 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous 1 2 3 4 … 8 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Language
  • Tech
  • Life
  • General
  • Downloads
  • Mac problem-solving
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • Painting topics
  • Hieronymus Bosch
  • English language
  • LockRattler: 10.12 Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.13 High Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.11 El Capitan
  • Updates: El Capitan
  • Updates: Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur
  • LockRattler: 10.14 Mojave
  • SilentKnight, silnite, LockRattler, SystHist & Scrub
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • xattred, Metamer, Sandstrip & xattr tools
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • T2M2, Ulbow, Consolation and log utilities
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Taccy, Signet, Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, alisma
  • Revisionist & DeepTools
  • Text Utilities: Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • PDF
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • LockRattler: 10.15 Catalina
  • Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Long Reads
  • LockRattler: 11.0 Big Sur
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • M1 Macs
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×