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Month: November 2025

Inside the Unified Log 8: Find the error

Log entries mentioning errors are common and can mislead. Those marking the consequences of errors may not mention the word error. Turn detective to work out where the error really is with these tips.

November 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: En plein air

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How painting in oils in front of the motif became popular fifty years before paint became available in tubes, and how it was done by the experts.

November 25, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Textovert 1.0: a convenient wrapper for text conversion

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Drag and drop files you want to convert to a different format, and Textovert will call textutil to do that for you. Quick, simple and convenient.

November 25, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Painted stories of the Decameron: Nastagio degli Onesti’s breakfast

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A bizarre story of a ghost who repeatedly kills the ghost of the woman who spurned his love, and how it leads to a successful marriage. Illustrated by Botticelli.

November 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 335

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 335. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Xeon […]

November 24, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Convert text between file formats, including webarchives

Convert between text, HTML, RTF, RTFD, Word .doc and .docx, WordML, ODT and Safari Web Archives using this command tool.

November 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painting along the Loing: Moret

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A few miles down river from Grez was the town of Moret, where Sisley lived and painted for 19 years, in poverty and isolation. Here are some examples of his Impressionist landscapes from there.

November 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The mystery of Safari’s Web Archives

When someone reports the most recent version of Safari that will open their webarchives is 18.6, and that’s the only version that you find can’t open some webarchives. You’ll be only too familiar with the culprit.

November 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painting along the Loing: Grez

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By 1880, an artist’s colony was forming in this village on the southern edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, and attracted painters from all over the world.

November 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 335

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

November 22, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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