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Month: May 2021

Explainer: Unicode, normalization and APFS

How Café and Café are actually different, and only one of those can be a filename in macOS, despite APFS being a non-normalising file system.

May 8, 2021 Language, Macs, Technology

Still Life History: 1 Birth of a new genre

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Until the seventeenth century, still life paintings were occasional curiosities, From the Romans and Hans Memling to the early Dutch Golden Age the genre developed steadily.

May 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Mints has a new page all to itself

A new support page contains supplementary info for Mints and its log extracts and tools.

May 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Thomas Baines, Artist and Storekeeper 2

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His later paintings showed previous expeditions, a new trip to the Matabele in search of gold, and early settlers in Cape Province, South Africa.

May 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Explore your App Store problems using Mints 1.4

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A new tailor-made log view shows what’s happened in interactions with the App Store, and can give clues as to the cause of delays and failures.

May 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Painting Within Tent: Thomas Baines, Artist and Storekeeper 1

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A coach-painter from Norfolk who emigrated to South Africa when he was 22, then went on expedition there, in Australia, and with David Livingstone.

May 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Inside the App Store: how it delivers your apps

Detailed step-by-step account of how apps are downloaded and updated from the App Store. Welcome new internal names like Absinthe, Jetpack, and Crossfire, and Apple’s fraud score.

May 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Summary of important security fixes in macOS

A lot has changed in recent versions of macOS over the last couple of weeks. This is a […]

May 5, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Don Quixote 8: The cloth mill and Mambrino’s helmet

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The pair grow scared of noises in the night. When they finally investigate, it’s just a cloth mill. They meet with a barber wearing his bowl on his head, which become the legendary helmet.

May 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

When an app can’t connect to AppleID-linked services

Important rule: third-party apps can’t use your regular Apple ID password to connect to services, but use an app-specific password.

May 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

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