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Month: February 2020

Calling the Tune: patrons, donors and dealers in paintings 1

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Paintings aren’t made in an artistic vacuum. Part of the purpose is to please a patron, donor or dealer. Examples from Leonardo, Raphael, Tintoretto.

February 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 36

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Whether a tone, […]

February 29, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Disk, drive, HD: does it really make any difference?

The fine line between precision and obscurity examined in the Finder, against Apple’s Style Guide, and its accuracy. And what does HD stand for?

February 29, 2020 Language, Macs, Technology

The demons and stories of Mikhail Vrubel 2

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As well as designing stage sets and costumes for opera, he painted bogatyrs from East Slavic legends, and Azrael, the Angel of Death.

February 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Still struggling with permissions? Try PermissionScanner 1.7

Can now explain what is wrong with a file’s permissions, and can scan any folder of you choice.

February 28, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

The demons and stories of Mikhail Vrubel 1

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Known now as one of the great Russian Symbolists, in life he was independent, and painted in very modern style from legends and literary sources.

February 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Finder still thinks this Mac’s got a hard disk, and won’t set Preview Options

Three Finder bugs in 10.15.3, from the plain silly to infuriating. Every Mac still has a hard disk, Preview Options that don’t work, and a very old fiend.

February 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Raphael and Painting: 5 Roman portraits and Madonnas

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Superb portraits of a cardinal and the Pope, and several of his finest Madonnas, including one claimed by many to be the greatest painting in the world.

February 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

T2M2 version 1.14 is more forgiving

One small change: you no longer need to press Tab or Enter to set the time period.

February 26, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Locating a problem in the log using Ulbow 1.1b3

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Now feature-complete, this version has powerful tools to help you locate significant events to the second and better.

February 26, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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