The word ‘perk’ has three quite separate meanings and origins, and is a microcosm of English etymology.
Author: hoakley
Ask which were the first landscape paintings in Western art, and most would suggest works of Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer, or Joachim Patinir. But they were actually very late compared to frescoes of the Cycladic civilisation, some three millenia before.
Chroma is hard to separate from lightness. An important painting point is that mixing paints cannot increase chroma. Instead it tends to reduce it towards muddy grey.
This second article considers how text is entered into your Mac: mainly by the keyboard, but also briefly covers speech and scanned input.
Latest news on dylib hijacking, with a list of vulnerable apps and a free tool to inspect Disk Images for suspect contents.
If you were looking for a ‘good’ night out with a ‘bad’ man or woman, would you prefer someone who was amoral, immoral, or non-moral? Here comes a strange trip into English morphology…
OS X security has just changed. Very significantly. Why downloading apps or updates over non-secure connections puts your Mac at risk.
A distinctive presumed self-portrait of this exceptional woman painter, cropped close, from an unusual viewpoint, using chiaroscuro, colour, and the most amazing fabric textures.
This is a follow-up to my previous article about DLL hacking and OS X here. Patrick Wardle of […]
In the first of a series, this explains how Macs work with Unicode, how to get the best out of that, and how to fix its problems.
The Eclectic Light Company 