Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs & painting – 🦉 No AI content
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • Freeware
  • All Macs
  • M1-M5 Macs
  • Troubleshooting
  • Painting
  • Mac Front Page

Author: hoakley

Don Quixote 18: Escape and reunion

T T Read More

The man from Algiers completes the story of how he escaped with the Moorish woman. When a judge arrives at the inn, he thinks he recognises him as one of his brothers.

July 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 107

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 107. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Unenclosed, […]

July 12, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How to share large files without using your iCloud allowance

This free service doesn’t use up any of your iCloud space allowance, and can send attachments of up to 5 GB in size. Here’s how to use it on the Web, and in the Mail app.

July 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

How the Other Half Live: paintings of stately homes 2

T T Read More

Chillon Castle, Lake Geneva, Éragny Manor, a mansion in New York City, Kelmscott Manor (home of William Morris), Florence Griswold’s home in Old Lyme, CT, and more.

July 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: A tendency to panic

Close to the top of my shortlist of new features in the next Apple Silicon Macs is that kernel panics become a thing of the past.

July 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

How the Other Half Live: paintings of stately homes 1

T T Read More

Palaces of Albert VII, Rubens’ own Het Steen, an imposing Swiss castle, Wivenhoe Park in hiding, and an Australian pastoral station.

July 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 107

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

July 10, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: checksums, CRCs, hashes and cryptography

What are checksums, CRCs and hashes? What is required for a hash to be cryptographic, and how any of these affect your Mac? Some answers and explanations.

July 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Reject: Eakins’ unsightly medical history

T T Read More

Rejected from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition as ‘unsightly’, The Gross Clinic was hidden in an Army hospital. In 2006, it was almost sold for $68 million.

July 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Finder’s metadata puzzles

T T Read More

Useful metadata shown in two places, and available as columns in List views. But some things don’t match up, and information changes in front of your eyes.

July 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 422 423 424 425 426 … 1,059 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Free Software Menu
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Downloads
  • SilentKnight, Skint, SystHist, silnite, LockRattler & Scrub
  • XProCheck, T2M2, LogUI, Ulbow, blowhole and log utilities
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • xattred, SpotTest, Providable, Spotcord, Metamer & xattr tools
  • Versatility & Revisionist
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma, Taccy, Signet
  • System Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, DropSum, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Text Utilities: Textovert, Disclipper, Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • sysctl information
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • PDF
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Updates
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • Saturday Mac Riddles
  • Last Week on My Mac
  • Painting topics
  • Mac problem-solving
  • M-series Macs
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 8,964 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...