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A Hard Reality: the paintings of Christian Krohg, 1 – beginnings

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A social realist whose themes spanned controversial topics such as poverty and prostitution, he was a major influence of Edvard Munch, and central to Nordic and northern European art.

January 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Scripting in Swift: Key characters, or what character can’t be key

A hard to spot runtime error results if you try to embed the key < in a dictionary. But when converting plain text for embedding in XML, that's one character you need to substitute.

January 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

SearchKey can now add metadata to batches of files and folders

New batch file mode can add (e.g.) copyright metadata to hundreds or thousands of files. Handles unusual characters properly. Can also remove extended attributes.

January 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Seeing History: Is perspective learned or natural?

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If Brunelleschi had introduced Cubism instead of perspective projection, would that have altered human visual perception?

January 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Where did that metadata come from?

What metadata you are likely to encounter, where it is stored, and how you can view and edit it. A grand tour of the Finder’s Get Info dialog.

January 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Adobe has updated Flash Player

Adobe has just released version 28.0.0.137 of its Flash Player. If you one of the dwindling few who […]

January 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Loving Beauty: Gustav Klimt, 2, portraits and vacations

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A portrait of a lasting friend and patron, drawings of the female form, and some strangely restrained landscapes from summer holidays. His style evolves.

January 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Add metadata to files using SearchKey: first test release

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Adds keywords, author, copyright and other info to any file on your Mac. Runs in El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra.

January 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has updated Safari 11.0.2, High Sierra 10.13.2, and iOS 11.2.2

Apple has just released the following security updates, to address CPU security vulnerabilities known as Spectre: macOS High […]

January 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Does xattred 1.0b2 run on El Capitan too?

This new version should run OK on El Capitan, but has no functional changes apart from that.

January 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

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