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Changing Paintings: 57 The sacrifice of Iphigenia

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The Greek fleet is stuck in the port of Aulis due to strong winds and heavy seas. A seer tells Agamemnon the only solution is to sacrifice his daughter to Diana.

February 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 294

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 294. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Cool […]

February 10, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Watch your background: In-app background tasks

Easy to code, these don’t need to use XPC although it’s used by the DAS-CTS scheduling and dispatch system. They aren’t run at constant time intervals, but when appropriate according to other loads.

February 10, 2025 Macs, Technology

Inglorious mud: 2 To the War to End Wars

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Mud during the Franco-Prussian War, in Nordic countryside, and enveloping everything including the dead during the First World War.

February 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: A brief history of what we take for granted

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Achieving reliable colour reproduction with computers drew from several fields from neurophysiology to physics. Could it have been accomplished by anything other than humans?

February 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Inglorious mud: 1 On the move

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How the rich paid to walk on planks to cross muddy streets, and hussars helped ladies over mud ruts, children at play, roads in London and Leeds, and a cheeky ploughboy.

February 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 294

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

February 8, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of ColorSync

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First released in 1993 to support colour printing, version 2.0 in 1995 brought fuller features and ICC support. Still going strong despite the decline of colour printing.

February 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: 3 Factories

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Iron and steel mills and foundries, a printing shop, a lead mine still employing children, and spinners – all relentlessly demanding, without lighter work.

February 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Add custom file and folder icons in Sequoia

Adding your own custom icons to files and folders goes back a long way, to Classic Mac OS […]

February 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

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