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Author: hoakley

How to search successfully in Spotlight: GUI tools

Using the Spotlight window and Finder’s Find window to locate local files that match your search criteria. Word boundaries and their effect on search results.

June 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painting and Photography: Is it art?

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Degas’ photos of women bathing, GΓ©rΓ΄me supporting photography as a fine art, Pierre Bonnard’s snaps of Marthe, and the extreme realism of Ellen Altfest.

June 1, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Successful search strategies

Applying a sequence of criteria to narrow search until you find your target. How incremental search can help. The role of predicates, and how to search the log.

June 1, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painting and Photography: Early experiments

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JMW Turner photographed in a dageurreotype in 1847, paintings mocking early photographers, then their influence over views, and used by Thomas Eakins.

May 31, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 310

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

May 31, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac OS version numbers

How Apple adopted a triplet version numbering scheme by 1988, then complicated it with additional revision numbers, Supplemental Updates, RSRs, and more.

May 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: Summary and Contents

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Country folk lured by the promise of material goods and wealth, fine clothes and smart carriages, who end up working in coal mines and struggling to stave off poverty.

May 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Can you trust times shown in the log?

This compares short time intervals obtained from log entry timestamps obtained from the log show command via Ulbow, those from LogUI using OSLog, and Mach Absolute Time.

May 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Nursery and Children’s Areas

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Glimpses into the world of children, with the 2 daughters of Joseph Coomans, an Italian family, 2 daughters of the Alma-Tademas, and several others.

May 29, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Searching for the file that won’t be found

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How the name of one of the two ancient Greek Graces confuses Spotlight’s search box, and which characters can separate words.

May 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

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