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Author: hoakley

Last Week on My Mac: What emergency? We’ve got serious photos

Snow, freezing rain, and thaw – just when you need the Met Office’s webpages. So it took its live weather pages offline, and promoted its mobile apps.

March 4, 2018 General, Life, Macs, Technology

No Greater Naturalist: Paintings of Bruno Liljefors, 1

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Following DΓΌrer’s 1502 painting of a Young Hare, Liljefors painted wild birds and animals in their natural environment. He remains one of the most important wildlife artists.

March 3, 2018 General, Life, Painting

How macOS tracks your files: inside the inode

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Some apps track old documents wherever they go; others lose them if they are put in a different folder. Here’s why, and some new features for the next release of Precize.

March 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Lovers die swimming the Hellespont: the tragedy of Hero and Leander

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Boy meets girl but has to swim a mile in treacherous waters to keep meeting her. When she tells him how she burns with passion, he pushes his luck in the sea.

March 2, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Revisionist now a single app: Version management in one

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Single app now explores versions, lets you preview and manage them – all in one.

March 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

Run The Time Machine Mechanic from a regular user account

Do you work from a normal user account rather than an admin one? This should let you check Time Machine using the T2M2 app.

March 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: Vermilion, the red of heaven

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Used since Roman times, it was common in the dress of saints. Highly toxic, it was progressively replaced by cadmium red in the late 19th century.

March 1, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

What are all those hidden folders then?

Summary of the hidden folders and files you’re most likely to encounter at the top level of a volume, and at the top level of your Home folder.

March 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Amsterdam for Real: Paintings of George Breitner 2

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‘Girl in a Red Kimono’ is a major work of Japonisme, and relied on photos as well as drawings and sketches. His name has even entered the Dutch language.

February 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Workthrough: Using the macOS version system to recover lost content

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An important section of a document that you’re working has gone missing. Do you search back through backups, or use the versioning system to recover and replace it?

February 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

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