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Paint fast, paint slow

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From 15 minutes to sketch a passing thunderstorm in oils, to more than a year for several masterworks of the 19th century.

February 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Do we have custom access?

Have you found Time Machine docs helpful in solving problems? Do you know what “custom access” means in the Permissions section of Get Info?

February 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

In memoriam Karl Isakson, the Nordic Modigliani 2

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He spent much of the war on the Danish island of Bornholm, planning a series of paintings about death and resurrection. He died young, a century ago today.

February 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 139

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

February 19, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: WindowServer

The master compositor of windows, WindowsServer is a key part of the GUI which runs from when the login window appears until your Mac shuts down.

February 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

In memoriam Karl Isakson, the Nordic Modigliani 1

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Born into poverty in Stockholm, he worked as an assistant to Carl Larsson before training in Sweden and Paris. One of the fathers of Modernism.

February 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How can you trust a disk to write data?

All disks cache data to be written, which makes benchmarking them tricky. It has more serious consequences which macOS tries to allow for in file systems and backups.

February 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

Altogether Now: 3 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565

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Remember the water cycle from school? Here’s the grandfather of such explanatory diagrams, told in one of the first modern landscape paintings.

February 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Can’t upgrade to Monterey? Try these

Upgrading to Monterey is simple for the great majority of users. But what can you do if you can’t get it to install? Here are plenty of options.

February 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

The 200th anniversary of Herman ten Kate, Reminiscences 2

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An assorted collection of his undated paintings, mainly interiors of inns. Although his oil paintings are extremely conservative, but watercolours are much looser.

February 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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