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Month: March 2022

Updating your Mac using softwareupdate, SilentKnight and silnite

If you don’t want to leave Software Update to install updates automatically, here are the options for using softwareupdate, SilentKnight and silnite instead.

March 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

The Start of the Year: Paintings of Spring 2

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Twentieth-century paintings of Spring, from Renoir to Grant Wood, with the help of Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Granville Redmond and others.

March 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: When Visual Look Up fails

For some images, Visual Look Up fails so completely that it’s not even offered. Could this be exploited as a way of blocking image recognition?

March 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

The Start of the Year: Paintings of Spring 1

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This is when the year should really begin. A celebration of the real New Year from Botticelli to Pissarro, aided by Sisley, Van Gogh and others.

March 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 144

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A brisk march […]

March 26, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Whatever happened to QuickTime?

QuickTime ruled from 1991-2019, and was bigger than Apple itself. But can you name what replaced it, and whether it works as well?

March 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the Hutsuls in the Carpathians

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Around 25,000 live in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine. Here are paintings of traditional life in the rugged and snowy terrain.

March 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How Visual Look Up works in detail 2: Object recognition and Live Text

Visual Look Up also recognises flowers, landmarks and pets, as well as well-known paintings. Here’s how it does those, and how Live Text is different.

March 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

Altogether Now: 8 Ford Madox Brown, Work, 1863

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Crammed into this crowded street scene in one of London’s leafy suburbs is a detailed account of the breadth and depth of contemporary Victorian society.

March 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Understanding digital audio

How analogue sound is turned into digital audio, how the limits of human hearing determine how that conversion should be performed, and how you should set your Mac’s audio up.

March 24, 2022 Macs, Technology

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