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Month: November 2025

The earthly delights of Hieronymus Bosch 2

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Adam and Eve during a happy moment before the Fall. Countless naked men and women cavorting with giant fruit. Gambling and music seen as sure ways to hell. Delving into Bosch’s details.

November 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence

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What was the key to successfully learning to drive, ride a bike, or speak a foreign language? Confidence, and it’s every bit as important in computing, and in macOS.

November 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

The earthly delights of Hieronymus Bosch 1

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Inside its restrained and modest grisaille cover there are three panels showing the Garden of Eden, a pleasure garden, and the garden of Hell.

November 29, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 336

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

November 29, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: PDF format

How PDF is different from PostScript, how to identify key parts of PDF source code, layout problems, verbosity, flattening and mojibake.

November 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

More than a Nabi 1: Félix Vallotton 1885-99

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Eclectic and mysterious paintings first in academic style, then Naturalist, a few years as the ‘foreign Nabi’ before painting unusual landscapes.

November 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Explainer: Text formats

All about plain text, rich text, RTFD, .doc, .docx, HTML, webarchive, WordML, ODT and Pages formats, and how much space they take.

November 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Aelbert Cuyp 2

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More rich and lucent skies light cavalry troopers, migrating peasants, the baptism of an Ethiopian eunuch, and a river scene. Then he suddenly stopped painting.

November 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Podofyllin 1.5 beta can export PDF to RTF

Test version can now export PDF to Rich Text Format. For evaluation, please, to see if this would be worth adding to Textovert.

November 27, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Aelbert Cuyp 1

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Trained as a landscape painter, he used his landscapes for genre scenes, animal and human portraits, even myths and a religious work, and was influenced by Claude Lorrain.

November 26, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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