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Great Ladies of Impressionism: Berthe Morisot 1874-1891

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Her turning point in 1874 – rejected from the Salon, joining the first Impressionist Exhibition, and marrying Édouard Manet’s brother. How those changed art.

June 26, 2026 General, Life, Painting

What to do with a hot Mac

Scrolling becomes sluggish, switching between apps is slow. Look in Activity Monitor and kernel_task is hogging the CPU. It’s time to help your Mac cool down,, as detailed here.

June 26, 2026 Macs, Technology

Brushstrokes: From El Greco to Rembrandt

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El Greco’s uniquely painterly brushstrokes, the oil sketches and studies of Rubens, and Rembrandt, the first major artist to intentionally leave brushstrokes in prominent passages.

June 25, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Deprecations and removals from Golden Gate

A round-up of what we know so far, including Time Capsule support, encrypted HFS+, DVDPlayer framework, preparations for Rosetta removal, and logarchive format.

June 25, 2026 Macs, Technology

In the shadow: The Dutch Golden Age

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With great interest in optics, depicting shade and shadows advanced in the 17th century, in paintings by van Honthorst, Judith Leyster, and above all Rembrandt, whose promoter was the father of Christiaan Huygens.

June 24, 2026 General, Life, Painting

How to get the most from SilentKnight 3

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A complete guide to using this new version, with explanations of how to keep XProtect up to date, which updates the app will install, and where to get further information.

June 24, 2026 Macs, Technology

Portraits of trees: Dutch Golden Age

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Paintings of Jacob van Ruisdael, probably the first in which species can be distinguished reliably, and leaf forms are depicted accurately, plus delights from Paulus Potter and Jan van der Heyden.

June 23, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Choose and use in-document metadata

Many document formats store metadata with their data. Choosing the right ones to use must ensure their access, indexing and search. Here’s how to check those, and why Keywords are usually a good choice.

June 23, 2026 Macs, Technology

Hero or hooligan: Achilles becomes the warrior

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The son of Thetis, he was dipped in the water of the River Styx to make him invulnerable, apart from his left heel. He went missing from the thousand ships, when he went into hiding, but was recovered by Ulysses.

June 22, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 365

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 365. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Half the […]

June 22, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

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