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Changing Paintings: 22 Proserpine’s fate

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Cupid makes Pluto fall in love with Ceres’ young daughter Proserpine. When the king of Hades carries her off with him, there are consequences for the whole world.

June 3, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 258

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 258. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sneak […]

June 3, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Why you shouldn’t try cloning your Apple silicon Mac’s startup disk

For 18 years, cloning a boot disk was popular and effective. It was even used as a way of defragmenting free space in housekeeping. Why doesn’t it work with Apple’s new Macs?

June 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

Lovis Corinth and Charlotte Berend: 2 Recovering from disaster

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Thanks to the work and support of his wife, he made an excellent recovery and returned to painting. But this had taken its toll, and he died in 1925.

June 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Looking back from the future

Two watersheds that could occur in macOS 15: that it only supports Macs with Apple chips including an Arm processor, and that it opens access to older versions of macOS on Apple silicon.

June 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

Lovis Corinth and Charlotte Berend: 1 Painting days of wine and roses

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Corinth lived a bohemian life when he married his first painting student, when she was 22, and he was 44. All went well until 1911, when disaster struck.

June 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 258

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

June 1, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

PDF on Macs: the rise and fall of Preview

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PDF was introduced by Adobe in 1993, when its viewer Acrobat became popular, and PDFs were created from PostScript using Distiller. Then came Preview from NeXT to Mac OS X.

June 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

A to Z of Landscapes: Panoramas

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Although the term didn’t come into use until 1791, panoramic landscapes started earlier, and largely stopped by the end of the 19th century.

May 31, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Skint version 1.06 has a Dock menu command and is ready for macOS 15

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Adds a Dock menu command to run its checks without having to bring the app to the front, and should be compatible with macOS 15.

May 31, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

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