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Month: March 2021

Can you trust Numbers with numbers?

Numbers has a lightweight interface and is easy to use. But does it handle numbers as accurately as Excel, or maths environments like Matlab?

March 15, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Comical Canvases: Humour in paintings 2

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Humorous paintings of animals and children, and well-known stories such as Salome, and Don Quixote, leading to an inspiration for Surrealists.

March 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Next phase of the Apple Silicon transition

The DTKs have been returned, ending the first phase of the transition to Apple Silicon. What comes next, and what are the top three problems which Apple needs to address?

March 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

Comical Canvases: Humour in paintings 1

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It’s unusual and difficult to make humorous paintings. Here’s a fine selection from Bosch, Brueghel and Rubens to the late 19th century.

March 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 90

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

March 13, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Big Sur’s Tower of Babel

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Time to speak Klingon to your Mac. Or, rather, don’t try this at home or you could end up with mixed languages, and Help pages in something else.

March 13, 2021 Language, Macs, Technology

The gold-digger who painted Australia: 1 From Vienna to Victoria

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An Austrian who trained at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, joined a gold rush in Australia, then painted the continent’s landscapes.

March 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Hyperinflation: comparing update sizes from Mojave to Big Sur

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Total updates required by 10.14 were 21.5 GB in 10 updates; for 10.15, those rose to 32.2 GB in 12 updates. For M1 Macs, Big Sur has already required 22.3 GB in 6 updates, and it hasn’t got to version 11.3 yet.

March 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Rebirth: Was perspective essential to the Renaissance?

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For over a century, Italian painters had strived to achieve coherent perspective projection, but it was until about 1420 that this was achieved. How essential was it?

March 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine to APFS: Understanding backups

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How each of the three different backup schemes used by Time Machine has worked, and how snapshots can work as backups.

March 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

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