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Year: 2022

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

Painting Everyday London: 11 Walter Sickert before

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Initially, Sickert had tried to make a career in theatre before painting. He loved music halls, and painted many during the late 19th century.

March 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How Visual Look Up works in detail 1: paintings on Intel and M1 Macs

The first phase analyses, classifies and detects any objects within the image. When the user clicks on the white dot, this completes with a search for the best match.

March 23, 2022 Macs, Technology

Art and Science: 14 Back to alchemy

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Joshua Reynolds, who aspired to paint like Rembrandt; JMW Turner who explored colour contrasts and texture; Edgar Degas, who dried his oils before painting.

March 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Mints now opens up access to Visual Look Up

Not only does this version of Mints extract information from the log detailing what happens during Visual Look Up, but it includes it own browser window to look up with.

March 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 50: With outlaws into Barcelona

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They find themselves in the midst of hanged outlaws, then are surrounded by living bandits. Eventually they reach Barcelona and see the sea.

March 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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