In a language with so many words, this is another which has several different meanings, which seem to be growing away from their origins.
Author: hoakley
We now have a choice of models: those that grip you by the short and curlies, such as Adobe’s Creative Cloud, or the App Store’s take-it-or-leave-it, in which you pay full price for every major release irrespective of existing licences.
My task was to turn over 7500 files into a database, in which we could search, sort, and analyse – something normally viewed as requiring prolonged labour and great cost. I had just 3 days.
One of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance, and one of the later huge works in egg tempera, its interpretation remains controversial.
In case you ask, yes, I have just ordered an Apple Watch. Well, strictly speaking two – one […]
We were returning from an idyllic Pyrenean holiday, and had just boarded the Eurostar in Paris, when my wife announced that she had lost her passport.
One of the security fixes announced in OS X 10.10.3 was a puzzle. In the words of Apple’s […]
Freshly installed OS X has clear ideas about what should go where. Does it really matter, or can […]
Now that my logs have stopped spewing errors, the hard disk is no longer churning, and the dust is settling, it is time for a hot washup on the OS X 10.10.3 update.
I sat in front of my iMac, only to discover that the Internet was gone. The right lights still shone on my modem-router, but no matter where I pointed Safari, I got a near-instant error.
The Eclectic Light Company 