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The Current Version: fixing macOS versioning

macOS versioning is sophisticated and valuable, but let down by flaws in implementation. Can we fix some of its problems?

April 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: Indigo the unreliable

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When it was first used as a pigment, this vegetable dye proved reliable and lightfast. Later technique, though, resulting in it fading. Why?

April 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Inside iCloud Drive: Optimize Storage, and its bugs

How does the ‘Optimize Storage’ feature work? Indeed, does it work? A look at its confusions and a couple of bugs.

April 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Ferdinand Hodler, Early Realism, to 1885

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At the start, he was a traditional realist.

April 5, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Inside QuickLook previews with qlmanage

Problems with a document thumbnail or preview? Here’s a neat command tool which can help you diagnose and solve them.

April 5, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Naturalism of Gustave Caillebotte 2

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Works from 1880, in which his style became looser and possibly more Impressionist. Or was he still a Naturalist?

April 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Inside iCloud Drive: Downloading

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When does macOS decide to download new and changed items in iCloud Drive? This steps through the process from decision to completion.

April 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Naturalism of Gustave Caillebotte 1

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A prolific artist over a decade, his paintings remain as enigmatic today as they were then. Was he an Impressionist, or one of the major Naturalists? Works from the 1870s.

April 3, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Mixing Terminal with GUI apps

Using files and the macOS clipboard to move content between commands in Terminal and GUI apps.

April 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 82 – The death of Numa, and a nymph turned into a spring

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Paintings by Poussin and Claude give different accounts of the meeting and separation by death of King Numa and the nymph Egeria. Did she dictate to him the laws of Rome?

April 2, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

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