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Month: June 2025

Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1915-19

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From patriotism and optimism, the war took Corinth into depression that was only relieved when he got out of Berlin into the countryside.

June 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 314

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 314. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Expedition […]

June 30, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Updates to Apfelstrudel (Unicode), AppexIndexer (Appexes), Ulbow (logs) and Versatility (versions)

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Wrangle Unicode normalisation, discover all the app extensions in your Mac, browse the log with nanosecond times, and preserve documents versions when moving them.

June 30, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Yellows cruel and Impressionist

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Indian Yellow was allegedly made from the urine of cows fed on mango leaves, dried into balls, but was outlawed as it cruel to the cattle. Chrome Yellow was widely used by the Impressionists.

June 29, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Plan ahead with this summer’s mallyshag

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To avoid your app’s icon going into the sin bin, replace it with one generated by Icon Composer. But that in turn requires overhauling some windows, and there’s a catch in NSLog waiting to get you.

June 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

The lost yellow of the masters

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Used by all the masters from about 1300, including Leonardo da Vinci, Veronese, Rubens and Rembrandt, this pigment was lost in the early 18th century and wasn’t rediscovered until 1940.

June 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 314

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

June 28, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of web browsers

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Netscape Navigator 1994, Cyberdog and Internet Explorer in 1996, Chimera/Camino in 2002, OmniWeb in 2000, and finally Safari in 2003, and more besides.

June 28, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: 1913-14

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Self-portraits during his recovery show how he was changing style to Expressionism, oddities with depth, Odysseus battling with the suitors, Ariadne on Naxos, and Joseph with Potiphar’s wife.

June 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Updates to Cirrus (iCloud), Revisionist (versions), Spundle (sparse bundles) and T2M2 (Time Machine)

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Four updates to popular tools, aimed mainly at compatibility with Tahoe, covering iCloud Drive tests, tools for document versions, creating sparse bundles, and checking your Time Machine backups are working properly.

June 27, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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