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Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 171, dated […]

July 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Medium Well Done: 16 Varnish

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Until 1880, varnishing oil paintings was standard practice, but three completely different types of varnish were used. A journey through names like sandarac and colophony.

July 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Checking whether apps are notarized using Signet

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Now can check apps (bundles with the extension .app) to determine whether they’re notarized, from Apple, App Store, etc.

July 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe 25: If at first you don’t succeed, try OCRing again

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This PDF contained 161 scanned pages from a book, but not one word could be accessed as text, despite using OCR on them. What can you do?

July 2, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The Divine Comedy: Purgatory 4 Pride and Envy

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So into the first terrace of Purgatory proper, for those who suffered from pride. On up to the second, for the envious, whose eyelids are sewn shut.

July 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 1

Here are the answers – and are always open to alternatives.

July 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Does replacing internal storage cause EFI updating problems?

When you replace the internal disk fitted by Apple, some Macs seem to stop installing EFI firmware updates. Is there anything to be done?

July 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Arteries of Industry: paintings of canals 2

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Canals from Sisley at the end of the 19th century, and paintings of Venice by Canaletto, Rico, and of course John Singer Sargent.

June 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Last of the Mojave

In the next week or two, 10.14.6 should be released, the last version of Mojave, and the last macOS to run on cheesegrater Mac Pros. Where has it got us?

June 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

Arteries of Industry: paintings of canals 1

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From Hobbema in 1663 to Sisley in 1884, here are views of the canals of Europe carrying commercial traffic, and in their later decline.

June 29, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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