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Apple has just pushed an update to XProtect’s security data

Apple has just pushed an update to the configuration data for its XProtect tool, which detects malware on […]

March 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Organ Rehearsal: The paintings, friends, and collection of Henry Lerolle

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His masterpiece is a prime example of Naturalism, but he was a close friend of Degas and Renoir, and a major patron and collector of Impressionism.

March 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

What can you do inside your Time Machine backups?

Time Machine backups look like ordinary files and folders, but you have to be careful what you do to them. Here’s how you can go inside them in safety, and what you can do.

March 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 78 – Aeneas in Italy, and with the gods

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Aeneas reaches Latium, where he founds the precursor to Rome, Alba. Only after war with Turnus, and a series of transformations.

March 12, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Aliases, links, clones, and Bookmarks

Do you know when it would be best to use a hard link? What’s the difference between a Finder alias and a symbolic link? And where to High Sierra’s new clones fit in?

March 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Last Naturalist: Émile Friant, 2

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After a series of major paintings in the 1890s, he devoted himself to print-making. An aviation enthusiast, he painted ballooning, and an early air ambulance.

March 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Enduring file references in macOS

First there were inodes, aliases, and links. Finder aliases already use the volfs file system, but Apple wants us to switch to its opaque Bookmarks

March 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Last Naturalist: Émile Friant, 1

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Trained in the same studio as Bastien-Lepage and Gervex, he emerged a bitter critic of academic painting. He painted several masterpieces of Naturalism.

March 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Preview any file from a macOS Bookmark, and an oddity in Quick Look

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Preciziun can now open documents from their macOS Bookmarks, and preview them in Quick Look.

March 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Face that Launched a Thousand Artists: Helen (and Paris)

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Was she abducted, seduced, or seducer? Victim or whore? Ovid’s pair of letters between Helen and Paris raises questions which many artists have tried to tackle.

March 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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