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The best of 2025’s paintings and articles 1

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Lower East Side tenements, King Midas with ass’s ears, unusual interiors, Napoleon’s retreat in 1812, marble quarries, British music halls, and more.

December 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Data formats used in textClipping, webloc and mailloc files 1994-2025

A summary of the resource types used in these files, and their modern data equivalents, from ‘classic’ Mac text to Unicode, RTF and even WebArchive.

December 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the centenary of Félix Vallotton’s death

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Domestic interiors that aren’t quite right, a woman’s black silhouette that seems to absorb light, a colour-coded account of Perseus rescuing Andromeda, and his last landscapes.

December 29, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 340

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 340. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Controversial […]

December 29, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Is your XProtect stuck on 5324?

Is your Mac running Sequoia or Tahoe? Is its XProtect up to date and using version 5325? If not, you might have to wait until the return from holidays before that’s fixed.

December 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Jacques-Louis David 2: Revolutionary

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Among the leaders of the French Revolution, he was almost guillotined alongside Robespierre, but got on well with Napoleon, and was even offered the post of court painter to King Louis XVIII.

December 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief

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If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t […]

December 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1925: past and future

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John Singer Sargent’s huge murals of classical myths, two last narrative paintings by Lovis Corinth, modern style in portraits by Anita Rée, and Oleksandra Ekster’s ‘Theatrical Composition’.

December 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 340

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

December 27, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Use and access clipping files: textClippings, weblocs, and maillocs

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Introduced in about 1999, they come in 3 flavours: weblocs, maillocs and textClippings. How they have changed, how you can still use them, and how to fix them.

December 27, 2025 Macs, Technology

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