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Year: 2020

Working around the Finder column width bug

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Over six years old and still going strong, here’s a workaround which makes this infuriating bug all but vanish.

March 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

Realist Paintings of Piet Mondrian 1

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Famous for his distinctive paintings of straight lines and evenly-coloured rectangles, his early works rushed through the evolution achieved over more than a century, and were thoroughly representational.

March 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

18 months on and Dark Mode still doesn’t work properly

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Obvious problems include QuickLook thumbnails and previews which display white text on a white background.

March 6, 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 […]

March 5, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Painter by Proxy: The art of Isabella d’Este

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Claimed to have had a constellation of major artists paint for her, what is the truth?What impact did she have on the Renaissance?

March 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Should Mac users worry about ransomware?

What are the risks of ransomware on the Mac at the moment? What protection is there from it?

March 5, 2020 Macs, Technology

Free log browser Ulbow version 1.1 is now released

Full release version includes corrections to its Chart view. With 33 page 7,500 word Help book and much more.

March 5, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

How macOS 10.14 and later overrides write permission on some files

Additional to the protected folders listed in the Privacy pane, macOS has a secret list of files which are also read-only. Apple hasn’t documented these.

March 4, 2020 Macs, Technology

Raphael and Painting: 6 Stanze and Sibyls

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Eight large frescoes in a style which assimilated what Raphael saw in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, and an arch of sibyls.

March 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Is there a bug in macOS 10.14 and later, testing whether files are writable?

When a file’s permissions are set to allow the user to write to it, but an app testing whether the file is writable is told that it isn’t.

March 4, 2020 Macs, Technology

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