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Month: May 2020

Saturday Mac riddles 47

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re still allowed to do. 1: Friend or […]

May 16, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Snug sparse bundles work better, but…

Is it better to make sparse bundles ‘snug’, sizing them so that they don’t have as much free space? What if you then need to resize them?

May 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

Odilon Redon’s Vision 2

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Brilliantly coloured butterflies and flowers, Buddha, and a small sailing boat were among recurrent themes in his later work.

May 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Sparse bundles leak space

They readily grow in size up to their maximum. But getting them to shrink when contents are reduced isn’t as easy.

May 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

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

May 14, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Odilon Redon’s Vision 1

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It was his charcoal drawings and prints which first started showing weird chimeras. They then migrated to his canvas in strange but exquisite paintings.

May 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covid-19 testing and diagnosis: where privacy stops

What’s the difference between a suspect and confirmed case, and which should be used for contact tracing? What about the implications of testing?

May 14, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The short lives of Modigliani and his dealers

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Modigliani died at 35, his partner two days later at 21; one dealer died at 35, the other at 43. Was this a curse or coincidence?

May 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Audiobooks in the Books app

Can you add your own audiobooks to the Books app? It seems a simple question, but the answer is elusive and guarded.

May 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

Paradise Lost: Book 1 in paintings and illustrations

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Summary of Satan and the bad angels being cast down to Hell, and Satan arousing the rebels to join in a council in Pandemonium.

May 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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