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Author: hoakley

Mojave’s Legacy Software is doubly wrong

How reliably does Legacy Software detect 64-bit compatible upgrades? For some apps, it doesn’t notice at all, it appears, and continues to give wrong information.

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Leonardo da Vinci: The Master’s Master 5

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Two lost paintings – a mural of the Battle of Anghiari in Florence, and a possible work showing Leda, plus his later Virgin and Child with St Anne.

April 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Podofyllin 1.0b16 now prints each of its views

Prints from any one of its six views, two as PDF, and four different text views, each of which is generated in Light Mode to save the black toner.

April 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Macs may need ARM processors to survive

Why change the processors used in Macs, when all that will do is cause loads of compatibility problems? Some thoughts on how important this could be.

April 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Medium Well Done: 5 Watercolour and gouache

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With a binder of gum arabic, watercolours came into use in the Renaissance, and have steadily increased in popularity.

April 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Take notes: Tinderbox 8 is the bee’s knees

One of the few apps that I still use frequently, and have used since version 1.0 in Mac OS X 10.0, Tinderbox has just been upgraded to version 8. Here’s why you should try it out.

April 16, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 9 Blasphemy, sodomy, usury

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These sinners are on barren sand, flakes of fire falling on their exposed flesh. Having spoken to some, Dante and Virgil board the monster Geryon.

April 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Update to fix printing and PDF issues in DelightEd, and a new product page

Printing now functions in Light Mode properly, and there are three different ways to generate better PDFs from Rich Text documents.

April 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Sandboxing makes quarantine flags almost meaningless

How the quarantine flag for apps and that for docs opened in sandboxed apps differ, and why there are now so many quarantine flags to trip us up.

April 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Painting the Floral Spring 2

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References to Botticelli’s Primavera and Poussin by Tiepolo, and in the late 19th century: Flora and the Spring.

April 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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