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Month: August 2019

Soul in Flight: paintings of butterflies after 1860

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From Gustave Doré and Winslow Homer, to Vincent van Gogh and Odilon Redon – modern paintings of butterflies.

August 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Human frailty

Over a million people learned that very personal details of their had been leaking from an unsecured server. What should we learn?

August 11, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Soul in Flight: paintings of butterflies to 1860

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From Pisanello and Dosso Dossi to William Holman Hunt and Richard Dadd: paintings showing butterflies.

August 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 7

This weekend’s entertainment for the mind: three puzzles to work out before the answers appear on Monday.

August 10, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

The ‘hardened runtime’ explained

Newly-built apps supplied by developers outside the App Store need now to be notarized. This in turn requires hardening, but what is that?

August 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Victor Hugo, the unknown painter

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The great novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables and the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, also painted and drew over 4000 works. Here’s a small selection.

August 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Firewalls, phoning home and whitelists

Mac users are increasingly using software firewalls to prevent apps from making outgoing connections. Here are some tips, and links to help you build whitelists.

August 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Visual Riddles: Beginnings 1850-60

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In the 19th century, readers enjoyed detective and ‘mystery’ novels. From 1850, artists like William Holman Hunt and Berthold Woltze tried the same in paint.

August 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Taccy version 1.2 now deciphers new privacy settings for Catalina

Do you want to see exactly what protected resources an app can try to access? Or check that your own app is correctly configured?

August 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Colour fonts are upon us – in Mojave at least

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Emoji are no longer the only characters which come in full colour: OpenType-SVG fonts are now available in full colour too, and simple to use in macOS 10.14 and iOS 12.

August 8, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

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