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Pigment: Copper rust, Verdigris and Copper Resinate

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What turns statues and copper roofs blue-green? ‘Copper rust’, the basis of the intense green pigment Verdigris, used by all the Masters.

March 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Using macOS Bookmarks as enduring references: Precize and Preciziun

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Wouldn’t it be good to be able to locate important documents using Bookmarks, which endure even when you restart, or move the document? Now you can.

March 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Jules Bastien-Lepage: Avatar of Naturalism, 2

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1882 was a remarkably productive year for him, with a succession of major works, including landscapes, and Naturalist paintings which were dominant long after his death.

March 7, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Common packages: documents which are folders in drag

One of the Finder’s grand illusions, these are standard documents actually composed of a hierarchy of files and folders. Here are some details of common packages.

March 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Jules Bastien-Lepage: Avatar of Naturalism, 1

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A detailed look at his paintings of the rural poor which led up to Naturalism, and how he used a compositional formula so successfully.

March 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Bookmarks, APFS, and enduring file references

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More insights into how to create and use references to files which are unaffected when you move the file, or restart your Mac. And a new version of Precize to help.

March 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 77 – Circe’s bad habit

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What happens to men who Circe desires, but refuse her? This one was turning into a woodpecker, his men into wild beasts, and his wife simply vanished into thin air.

March 5, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Open Recent, inodes, and Bookmarks: How macOS remembers files

If apps can remember old documents in the Open Recent menu command, how can I do the same?

March 5, 2018 Macs, Technology

No Greater Naturalist: Paintings of Bruno Liljefors, 2

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After a rough patch in the 1890s, he found his earlier form and painted spectacular works showing seabirds around the fragment coast of the Baltic.

March 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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

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