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Landscape Composition: 9 One piazza, eight views

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A tough compositional challenge: a square that isn’t even rectangular, with unequal sides and a high tower. Solutions by Canaletto and other masters.

October 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How macOS is more reliable, and doesn’t need reinstalling

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How APFS, the boot volume group, hashes, and Secure Boot all combine to guarantee the integrity of your system, and save you trouble and work.

October 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 14 Wynford Dewhurst

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With Claude Monet as his mentor, he painted in thoroughly Impressionist style. Also the author of the most influential contemporary account of Impressionism in English.

October 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Shortcuts: counting files and Quick Actions

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Basic tutorial to iterate recursively through a folder and count the number of files within it, then to do the same but as a Quick Action.

October 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

Landscape Composition: 8 Tearing the book up with trees

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How trees came to invade Impressionist landscape paintings, in direct contravention to established principles.

October 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Silently updated security data files in Monterey

From CompatibilityNotificationData to XProtect, details of all the security data and related components in Monterey.

October 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

Monterey 12.0.1, Big Sur 11.6.1 and Catalina Security Update 2021-007: a summary

If you haven’t yet installed any of the updates and upgrades released by Apple on 25 October 2021, […]

October 26, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Don Quixote 31: The wedding trick

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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza attend the grand wedding. But the bride’s original suitor turns up and says over his dead body.

October 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

AsmAttic 4 gives insight into M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max performance

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Explore running test code of different types on the different cores in your M1 Mac. Provides insight into how your Mac performs, rather than just how fast it is.

October 26, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released Monterey 12.0.1, Big Sur and Catalina security updates

As announced last week, Apple has just released the first full public release version of macOS Monterey, 12.0.1. […]

October 25, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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