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Month: January 2019

William Powell Frith 2: Moral series

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After his greatest human panorama showing Paddington railway station, he painted two moralising series, similar to those of Hogarth.

January 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Inside Mojave’s Aliases and Bookmarks

Details of some of the information stored inside Bookmarks and Finder aliases, and a new version of Precize to show you that info.

January 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 158, […]

January 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

The Decameron: The suffering of Griselda

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The last story of the last day tells of a bride and mother who undergoes the senseless brutality of her husband, and three superb narrative panels telling the story.

January 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Copies, clones, links and aliases: summary in tables

How to make different types of copy/clone/link/alias in the Finder and command line, their properties and uses, summarised in two table.

January 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Jean Geoffroy: the world of the child

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One of very few artists who specialised in painting children’s social interactions in school. Fascinating insights into childhood and society at the time.

January 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Links and aliases beyond local files: advanced file system techniques

If you thought the first article was lightweight fun, here’s more about links/aliases to folders, behaviour in apps, iCloud, and Bookmarks.

January 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Spinning in paintings: 2 Meanings

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How the term spinster came about, the thread of life, the feminisation of Hercules, and Velázquez’ baffling Las Hilanderas.

January 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: AppKit, TextKit, Core Data – signs of disease

More bugs in Calculator and Activity Monitor when printing, dreadful lack of documentation of AppKit, TextKit, and CoreData. No wonder Apple is struggling to sell iPhones in China.

January 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Spinning in paintings: 1 History

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Paintings showing women spinning from around 1000 CE to the early 20th century, by Eakins, Tanner, Courbet, van Gogh, Breton, and others,

January 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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