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Paintings of the flatlands of England 2

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John Crome, a quiet innovator and founder of the Norwich School, Frederick Sandys, Thomas Girtin and others in Norfolk and Lincoln.

April 23, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: When the numbers don’t add up

One volume has 60 GB of purgeable space, giving 295 GB available; the other has only 15 GB purgeable, so 250 GB available. How can they be in the same container?

April 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the flatlands of England 1

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From Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, via the wooded countryside of Gainsborough and Constable, to the coast of Philip Wilson Steer.

April 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 200

Almost four years ago, on 29 June 2019, I posted my first Saturday Mac Riddles. To mark their […]

April 22, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Should you remove duplicate files?

Save space on your storage and backups by removing all copies. But does it work if they’re APFS clone files? And does that housekeeping utility detect clones for you?

April 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Hard Reality: 1 Surface textures

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Key factors making oil paint most suitable include its slow drying, wide range of viscosity, and robust paint layer. But it has its rules too.

April 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

When it doesn’t work, try it again in Safe mode

A simple task: deauthorise an M1 Mac mini to hand on, then use EACAS to wipe it ready for its next user. But deauthorisation wouldn’t work.

April 21, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 50 Hell

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Depicted as a physical place full of demons, torment and eternal suffering, and a deterrent to all those who commit sins on earth.

April 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Which files are purgeable? Look with new versions of Sparsity and Precize

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Where are all those purgeable files? Two updated utilities to help you find them: Precize and Sparsity, which will crawl folders checking which files are purgeable, sparse or clones.

April 20, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 49 Heaven

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Christian visions of Heaven or Paradise are usually less of a location than an array of figures. Examples from 1475-1916.

April 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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