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Month: May 2021

Rebirth: Contents

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An overview and contents of the articles outlining the history of the Italian Renaissance, centred on paintings from Florence.

May 31, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 101

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 101. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Crib […]

May 31, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

M1 Macs have a third Recovery mode

There’s 1 True Recovery, Fallback Recovery and one other recovery mode. Disambiguation, explanation and how this changed in macOS 11.4.

May 31, 2021 Macs, Technology

Something’s cooking: Paintings of the kitchen

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An offshoot of still life paintings of food, it was never very popular, and most of these are decidedly odd. From Jan Brueghel the elder to

May 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: How it took 6 months for M1 Macs to work properly

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Soon after Apple started delivering M1 Macs, users found that they couldn’t boot them from external disks. Six months later, this has largely been fixed. What went wrong?

May 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

In Memoriam Abbott Handerson Thayer and his angels 2

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He worked intensely on a painting for about three days, then left it, returning some time later. He also had assistants make real-time copies as he painted.

May 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 101

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Crib or text […]

May 29, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: deduplication

Track down all those duplicated files, and you could save yourself loads of disk space. Rather, you used to be able to. Why this doesn’t work so well now.

May 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

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

May 29, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

In Memoriam Abbott Handerson Thayer and his angels 1

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One of the foremost portrait and figurative painters in the US at the end of the nineteenth century, his dominant theme is the ideal woman, with or without wings.

May 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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