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Month: May 2019

A Terrifying Beauty: Medusa 2

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How Perseus came to behead Medusa, and how her head restored order to the worst wedding reception ever. In paint, of course.

May 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Finder lost

How a security feature trying to block malicious documents has rendered a Finder feature useless, causing users and developers problems.

May 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

A Terrifying Beauty: Medusa 1

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Formerly a beautiful young woman, she was turned into a monster by Minerva, and painted by Caravaggio, Rubens, Klimt, and others.

May 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Documents from an unidentified developer: quarantine misbehaviour in the log

Two sets of log excerpts demonstrate how macOS can prevent a user from opening a document, then mislead them into thinking it’s the app at fault.

May 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

More than the Nabi Sculptor: Georges Lacombe

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Gauguin Post-Impressionistm, Nabism, Japonism, and finally Divisionist Post-Impressionism – not bad for someone known as a sculptor.

May 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Serious flaw in macOS: quarantine can stop you from opening documents

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You double-click to open a document, and see a security alert telling you it’s from an unidentified developer and your security settings prohibit opening. What the hell?

May 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

In Memoriam Leonardo da Vinci: Pure Genius

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Born near Florence in 1452, the Renaissance Man and polymath died 500 years ago when retired in France. A summary of his great artistic achievements.

May 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 21 PDF Annotations

One of the more confusing features of PDF apps, as none seems to work quite the same, and removing them isn’t quick or simple.

May 2, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to both XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates overnight, to the ‘Yara’ data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number […]

May 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

Forgotten Flower: In Memoriam Mary Moser

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A founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768, she was precocious, successful, commissioned by the royal family, and almost completely forgotten. She died 200 years ago, on 2 May.

May 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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