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Month: August 2018

Last Week on My Mac: Where next with the log?

What do you want from a log browser? Which do you use for the unified log (Sierra and later), or have you given the log up as no longer useful?

August 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Susanna and the Elders 1: Origins and early development

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From 1400 to the brilliant accounts by Artemisia Gentileschi, this very popular story has attracted the attention of most major painters.

August 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The App Store by numbers, and Wikipedia wherever you want

How to get the better of the App Store, and how you can take reference material even where you can’t get a good internet connect – for free.

August 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto, 4: Saints and sinners

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Two of his greatest paintings: St George and the Dragon, and Susannah and the Elders, examined in detail.

August 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Booting the Mac: loading boot.efi and Secure Boot

The Mac has completed its self-test routines, and now prepares to load the EFI firmware or ‘boot loader’. Where it finds it, what it needs, and how Secure Boot changes this.

August 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Too Real: the narrative paintings of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 6

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He solves the problem of how to paint a stock market crash, and looks at what is seen, visual revelation, and truth.

August 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Signposts for performance: alpha release of RouteMap

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Do you want to measure performance or get other info from your app or script? Using Signposts is ideal, and here’s the first glimpse of a new tool to harvest them.

August 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pierre Bonnard: Bathrooms and tabletops, 1931-1936

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In the 1930s, he painted more watercolours, intimate domestic scenes, and nudes. Despite being in his mid-sixties, his work showed no sign of easing off.

August 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Before boot.efi: the Mac’s initial self-test routines

What happens in your Mac when you press the Power button? Before it loads the EFI firmware, it goes through self-testing, and initialising key chips.

August 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto, 3: Washing and Genesis

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An astrological allegory, self-portrait, Christ washing the feet of his disciples, and a cycle of paintings from Genesis.

August 7, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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