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Month: March 2019

Peace and War: Paintings of François Flameng 2

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In 1914, after a career painting the rich and famous, he became a war artist. For the next 4 years he showed what the Great War really looked like.

March 24, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Don’t tell anyone, but we’re about to ship new iMacs

New iMacs were very welcome, but Apple is telling us about its future plans. Will these new versions only sell for the next year? What will replace them?

March 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Peace and War: Paintings of François Flameng 1

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Royal portraits and history of the rich and famous – and a single gruesome work showing an episode now considered by some to be genocide.

March 23, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Apple is killing QuickTime 7 in macOS 10.15: convert old media now

32-bit apps and codecs die with macOS 10.15 later this year. Many video, audio and still image formats will become unusable as a result. Here’s what to do.

March 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 5 Gluttony

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Here, the rain comes down in sheets, with snow and large hailstones. First an encounter with the three-headed monster dog Cerberus, then a chat with an old acquaintance.

March 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

PDF without Adobe 19: Seeing inside PDF with Podofyllin

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Now parses the PDF file itself and builds a structured summary of all the objects it contains. Ideal for locating orphaned and other leaking content.

March 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Which Safari extensions do you use?

I’ve two which I couldn’t do without. StopTheMadness restores Mac features like menus, autocomplete, copy and paste. Better is my choice of tracker blocker.

March 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Medium Well Done: 1 Fresco and secco wall painting

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Many of the greatest and most important European works of art are painted on walls or ceilings. Explains secco, fresco, and how they influence the result.

March 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Medium Well Done: 0 Introduction and terminology

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Introduction to a series looking at different painting systems. Establishes how their key components are the support, ground, pigment, binder and diluent and explains terms.

March 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

When the wrong copy/version of the right app opens a document

Sometimes macOS decides you want to open documents using the wrong version of the right app. Here’s how to fix that.

March 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

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