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Month: December 2018

DelightEd now opens and saves plain text and HTML as well as Rich Text

Version 1.1 supports three file formats, but working with HTML is not easy, as it cannot (yet) support bimodal text.

December 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Painting Reality: 4 Art and the State

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Naturalist painting both supported the State, and attacked it – sometimes so much that works had to be suppressed. The real history of art at the end of the 19th century.

December 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 6 Fitting a quart into a pint pot

With Apple’s SSD prices so high, you may for the first time have less internal storage in your new Mac than your old one. Tips to help you cope.

December 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Fjords and Munch: In memory of Adelsteen Normann 2

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With Edvard Munch launched in his career, Normann returned to painting the fjords of his native Norway.

December 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 5 Examples

Three workthroughs considering options and issues in migrating to a new Mac, with info on late migration, macOS upgrading, and Thunderbolt adaptors.

December 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Modern Christmas, paintings 1867-1921

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From Dante Gabriel Rossetti, through Lovis Corinth, to Alphonse Mucha and Christian Krohg – modern masterpieces.

December 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

How can Mojave let you open an app with signature errors?

The differences between a full Gatekeeper check, an AMFI check for integrity, and a normal app open, and why signature errors can be tolerated.

December 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Annunciation, old and new

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From Jan van Eyck’s trompe l’oeil, through Tanner’s fiery cross, to the modern young Polish woman of Jacek Malczewski.

December 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

App signatures are always checked on launch, but serious errors may be ignored

Whenever an app is opened in 10.14.2, its signature is checked asynchronously, often several times. But in many cases, macOS doesn’t act on any errors returned.

December 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in paintings

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From its publication just before Christmas in 1843, Dickens’ story has been hugely popular and extensively illustrated. One set by Arthur Rackham is unquestionably fine art.

December 23, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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