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Month: September 2021

Impressionist painting in Britain: 11 William Nicholson

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Whistler encouraged him to paint in 1900, and he went on to Impressionist landscapes during the early 20th century. He also won a gold medal at the Olympics, and taught Winston Churchill.

September 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to undelete a file simply

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How to recover a deleted app or document without having to restore from your Time Machine backup. Simple steps and no use of Terminal.

September 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: Ivory miniatures

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During the winter of 1824-25, when in Bordeaux, he painted about 40 remarkable miniatures on slivers of ivory. Here are nine of the survivors.

September 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Going beyond T2M2 with Mints: grokking Time Machine to APFS

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An exploration of how Time Machine backs up to APFS, using Mints to make log access quick, simple, and easy to understand. And notes on changes in Monterey.

September 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Landscape Composition: 4 Dutch Horizons

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Rubens as a landscape painter influenced by the Brueghels, and the changing horizons seen in Dutch Golden Age paintings.

September 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

SilentKnight: how to install just one update, rather than all

What to do when SilentKnight offers you large macOS updates, or updates which you don’t want to install just yet, and other problems.

September 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 27: Sancho’s deception

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First Sancho convinces Don Quixote that an ugly peasant girl stinking of garlic is Lady Dulcinea, then they bump into a troupe of actors and nearly get stoned again.

September 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 118

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 118. Here are my solutions to them. 1: 42, […]

September 27, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Logs

Since macOS Sierra, the Unified log has been an unrivalled source of information about what’s going on in macOS. But access isn’t simple.

September 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

A life of Perseus in paintings 2

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From his battle with the sea monster to the deadly fight at his wedding to Andromeda, paintings by Titian, Veronese, Burne-Jones, Vallotton and others.

September 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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