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Month: February 2019

From revenge at the Salon to the Nabis: the Robert-Fleurys 1

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Joseph-Nicolas taught his son Tony, who like his father was an academic history painter with a taste for human disasters. He also taught at the Académie Julian in Paris.

February 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Mojave’s mixed-up Finder: Accents, Highlights, and confusion

Accent is blue, Highlight is orange. So what the hell are those menus doing in purple?

February 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 12 Vulnerabilities in digital signing

Do you use digital signatures in PDF documents, or do you trust your PDF reader to check them? You could be spoofed into trusting forgeries.

February 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Introduction to Dante’s Divine Comedy

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This new series will travel with Dante and Virgil as they visit Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, looking at the many masterworks inspired by the poem.

February 27, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Searching PDF documents: a new feature in Podofyllin

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Getting the Find feature right for PDF documents is important. With text find already available, the best solution is distinct from that.

February 27, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

More Than Portraits: the paintings of Diego Velazquez 6 Spinners

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Is it just a quirky re-telling of the myth of Arachne and her weaving contest? What do the foreground and background have in common? A superb visual riddle, perhaps.

February 26, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Entitlements: how apps get back what they’ve given up

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With apps in future set to come from the App Store or notarized by Apple, entitlements are going to be the rule not an exception.

February 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 8 Part two

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Based more on the legend of Johann Faust, here’s a summary of the second part of Goethe’s play, with paintings and illustrations for it.

February 25, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Playing with fire: dealing with slow hot Macs

What should you do with a Mac whose fans keeping coming on full blast, with high CPU loads from kernel_task, and sluggish performance?

February 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Poussin’s Inheritance: the 400th anniversary of Charles Le Brun 2

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In 1660, he co-founded the Gobelins factory which became the leading maker of tapestries. He also set what became ‘Louis XIV Style’ in furniture.

February 24, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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