How oil paint can be used to create crisp and blurred edges, and sfumato. Implications of paint drying in some of Monet’s paintings, including his Grainstack series.
Month: August 2025
You can disable Live Text in Language & Region settings, but what exactly does that do? Does it also block Visual Look Up, or connection to Apple?
Passing Minos, who directs the dead to the right circle for their sins, they enter the circle for those guilty of lust. There they hear the story of Paolo and Francesca and their violent deaths.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 321. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Where […]
New app tests Spotlight indexing and search of local files across 15 test files and two search methods. This should provide valuable clues for diagnosis.
Derived from the dull yellow-green of chromium oxide, it was widely used by Impressionists, and well into the 20th century. Less toxic, but an environmental hazard.
We’re in the midst of a drought in the UK. We’ve all been recommended to delete old emails and photos to economise of water use. Is that wise?
A highly toxic arsenic salt, it succeeded Scheele’s green and was widely used until the 20th century, and finally discontinued in the 1960s.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Where to […]
From GML in 1969 came SGML, then in 1998 XML 1.0 was released. This was used to set out property lists in Mac OS X, and more recently have been stored in binary format.
The Eclectic Light Company 