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Clipping files: copying through the Finder

All about textClipping and pictClipping files: what they are, and how to access the data within them.

March 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 9 The story of Gretchen by Ary Scheffer & James Tissot

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Two superb series of paintings of scenes from Goethe’s Faust Part One, by Ary Scheffer and James Tissot.

March 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Mojave Finder Accent and Highlight colours shouldn’t create a third colour

Does Mojave blend the colours you set in Accents and Highlights to create a third colour, or is the appearance of a third colour just a bug?

March 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 13 PDF documents can readily leak data

Three ways to remove data from PDFs: redaction, deletion of content, and deletion of annotations. Can you trust them, or do they leak data?

March 4, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Paradise in paintings

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Only Tintoretto and Louis Janmot have dared show their visions of Paradise. For others including Bosch, it couldn’t be envisioned.

March 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Keyboard shortcuts killed by bug

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Want to use App Shortcuts in Mojave? You’re out of luck because its broken, and Apple can’t be bothered to fix it.

March 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Hell in paintings

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Deep underground, Satan and his demons are torturing and tormenting naked people. If you don’t live an exemplary life, that may be what you get in return.

March 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Mojave’s Time Machine 1.5: Working well but small quirks

With APFS, Time Machine underwent major change, to using snapshots to determine what to back up, rather than FSEvents. How well has this worked?

March 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

From revenge at the Salon to the Nabis: the Robert-Fleurys 2

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Tony Robert-Fleury’s pupils included Lovis Corinth, Cecilia Beaux, Lydia Field Emmet, Marie Bashkirtseff, George Clausen, Édouard Vuillard, and Ker-Xavier Roussel.

March 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Recovering a damaged document

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That document is damaged and can’t be opened. But you think it’s got versions saved, if only you could get at them. How?

March 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

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