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Last Week on My Mac: No secret

What do we want the week after the US Presidential Election? Let’s have an Apple Event!

November 8, 2020 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Legendary Lands 1

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With Umberto Eco as our guide, explore Parnassus, the Garden of Earthly Delights, Alcina’s island, Colchis, and the Garden of the Hesperides.

November 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 72

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Mementos and […]

November 7, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Extended attributes as a vulnerability

Thirty years ago, many Macs were hit by the Wdef virus, which exploited a vulnerability which remains today: it travelled in an extended attribute. Should we be worried now?

November 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

Marie Spartali Stillman 2: The Enchanted Garden

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Painstaking watercolour technique using transparent layers like glazes gives marvellous results in the Renaissance narratives.

November 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

News for those who follow this blog by email

At the end of October, some of you who follow this blog by email started reporting to me […]

November 6, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Finder Comments: worth avoiding

So convenient to use – edit them in the Comments: section of Finder’s Get Info dialog. But as reliable as loose scraps of paper, and as easily lost.

November 6, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update

Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update, which weighs in at around 1.2 GB and includes […]

November 5, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Marie Spartali Stillman 1: Love’s Messenger

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Friend and model of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, taught to paint by Ford Madox Brown, and photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, her paintings are truly Pre-Raphaelite.

November 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

LockRattler version 4.27 supports manual installation of updates too

Now offers you the choice of automatically downloading and installing pending updates, or just downloading them for manual installation.

November 5, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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