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March 13, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Le Nabi Zouave: Édouard Vuillard 1

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Paintings from his student days through his active membership of the Nabis, including his superb triptych ‘Public Gardens’.

March 13, 2019 General, Life, Painting

When a window closes as soon as it has opened

In Sierra but not Mojave, when the user opens an ancillary window, it appears for a moment, then vanishes. Is it a bug in the code, or in AppKit?

March 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 18 Seeing inside PDF more clearly

Looking at the source of a PDF file isn’t easy, as most of it is streams of binary data. Here’s an easier way, which also comes with a search feature.

March 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

More Than Portraits: the paintings of Diego Velazquez 8 Las Meninas

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Not his last great painting by any means, but his greatest and most thought-provoking. Where are the royal couple, seen only in reflection, and who is everyone looking at?

March 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Diagnosing diagnostics and Apple Hardware Test

What should you do when you try to restart in Diagnostics Mode and can’t? And how to check and restore a Recovery partition.

March 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 2 Crossing with Charon

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Dante and Virgil enter Hell, where they first encounter the souls of those too cowardly to choose between God and the Devil. Then it’s time for a boat trip with Charon.

March 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Re-installing macOS: clean or what?

Should you install, re-install, or clean (re-)install macOS? Why, how to, and what they entail.

March 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 17 Unredacting Manafort’s documents and recovering PDF versions

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How to reveal incorrectly redacted content in a PDF document, and discover previous versions of that document inside its file.

March 11, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Glaciers: vanishing motifs

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Views of one glacier over 250 years show how it has changed. Others in Greenland and Iceland are rapidly vanishing too.

March 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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