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Month: March 2019

The French Counter-Revolution: Painting propaganda 2

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The 1890s saw an unexpected number of paintings of this civil war. Were they Republican or Royalist statements?

March 31, 2019 Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The best update since El Capitan?

Release notes, three major bugs fixed (and plenty more too I suspect) – that’s got to be good. But there’s also the matter of broken command tools on previous versions.

March 31, 2019 Macs, Technology

The French Counter-Revolution: Painting propaganda 1

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From the death of 14 year-old Joseph Bara to the massacre of local Catholics, civil war in the land to the south and north of the Loire was thoroughly brutal.

March 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Apple has released new versions of Sierra and High Sierra Security Update 2019-002

The initial releases of macOS Sierra and High Sierra Security Updates 2019-002 on Monday 25 March were not […]

March 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave 10.14.4’s strange new security certificate

Have you updated to 10.14.4? Checked your login keychain? You may see a new security certificate there. What’s it for?

March 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

The beautiful icons of Maurice Denis 2

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With his chroma increasing all the time, he took to a series of classical myths, set on French beaches. Later his paintings became more devotional.

March 29, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Mojave Spotlight bug: Dictionaries don’t do Dark Mode

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Look in the Dictionary app, and entries are fine in Dark Mode. But access the same content via Spotlight, and they become unreadable. Why?

March 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Finding and converting legacy media 4: Using Compressor

When you want control over the codecs used and their settings, or have a large batch of movies to convert, use a transcoder like Compressor.

March 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

The beautiful icons of Maurice Denis 1

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One of the co-founders of Les Nabis, many of his paintings are religious in theme. He was also a fan of Cézanne, and painted a major homage to him.

March 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Finding and converting legacy media 3: Movies and more

How to use the Finder to locate movies which need to be converted for future compatibility, and converting them with QuickTime Player/

March 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

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