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Month: May 2025

Painting and Photography: Early experiments

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JMW Turner photographed in a dageurreotype in 1847, paintings mocking early photographers, then their influence over views, and used by Thomas Eakins.

May 31, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 310

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

May 31, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac OS version numbers

How Apple adopted a triplet version numbering scheme by 1988, then complicated it with additional revision numbers, Supplemental Updates, RSRs, and more.

May 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: Summary and Contents

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Country folk lured by the promise of material goods and wealth, fine clothes and smart carriages, who end up working in coal mines and struggling to stave off poverty.

May 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Can you trust times shown in the log?

This compares short time intervals obtained from log entry timestamps obtained from the log show command via Ulbow, those from LogUI using OSLog, and Mach Absolute Time.

May 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Nursery and Children’s Areas

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Glimpses into the world of children, with the 2 daughters of Joseph Coomans, an Italian family, 2 daughters of the Alma-Tademas, and several others.

May 29, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Searching for the file that won’t be found

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How the name of one of the two ancient Greek Graces confuses Spotlight’s search box, and which characters can separate words.

May 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 214 Problem pictures B

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By the end of the 19th century, problem pictures were popular features in the press. Most successful of British painters was John Collier, but they soon died out in the early 20th century.

May 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Save space on the internal SSD by adding another volume

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If you’ve got large files like Virtual Machines or media libraries on the Data volume on your Mac’s internal SSD, use this method to keep the size of its snapshots smaller.

May 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 213 Problem pictures A

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In the 19th century, literary stories changed with the coming of detective and mystery novels. In the latter half of the century, painters gained fame in problem pictures.

May 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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