Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs & painting – 🦉 No AI content
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • Freeware
  • M-series Macs
  • Mac Problems
  • Mac articles
  • Macs
  • Art

Author: hoakley

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 26 – Triptolemus and Lyncus

T T Read More

The final story in Book 5 tells of the spread of grain cultivation through Europe, and attempted murder.

June 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Silent Sierra night: security settings files in macOS Sierra (version 2)

In amongst the tens or hundreds of thousands of files which together make macOS Sierra work, there are […]

June 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Of characters and closures

There are lots of different ways to modify a string, but some would turn out to be very inefficient. A gentle wander through CharacterView and a mapping closure.

June 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Totems and trees: Emily Carr’s paintings, 1914-1930

T T Read More

She wasn’t a late developer at all: for over ten years her work was shunned. Then in 1924, this started to change, as did her painting.

June 13, 2017 General, Painting

Dystextia: a platform for exploring Unicode encoding problems, obfuscating text, and spoofing

Want to hide text from electronic searching and matching? Or just explore some of Unicode’s encoding issues? Here’s a useful tool.

June 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Carl Larsson’s Ideal Home: 1 France 1877-1885

T T Read More

Known best for his watercolours of his wife and family in their ideal and idyllic Swedish home, his work is far richer and more varied.

June 12, 2017 General, Painting

The return of the volume

In recent years, most Mac users have stopped partitioning drives into volumes. In High Sierra, you will probably want to use volumes again. Lots.

June 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Two Marriages of Great Convenience: 2 The exchange of princesses

T T Read More

Marie’s plan to bring peace to Europe is implemented in double royal weddings. The paintings say it brought a new age to France, but history says otherwise.

June 11, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week Off My Mac: A1 and AI

Apple keeps its promise with High Sierra and new Macs, but is less helpful in the log, and courts danger in AI.

June 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

Two Marriages of Great Convenience: 1 Marie de’ Medici’s grand plan

T T Read More

An introduction to some of the history and panegyric behind Rubens’ Marie de’ Medici Cycle, in the Louvre.

June 10, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 795 796 797 798 799 … 1,042 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • Free Software Menu
  • About & Contact
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Downloads
  • Mac problem-solving
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • Painting topics
  • SilentKnight, Skint, SystHist, silnite, LockRattler & Scrub
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • xattred, SpotTest, Providable, Spotcord, Metamer & xattr tools
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • XProCheck, T2M2, LogUI, Ulbow, blowhole and log utilities
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma, Taccy, Signet
  • Versatility & Revisionist
  • Text Utilities: Textovert, Disclipper, Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • PDF
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, DropSum, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • M-series Macs
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • System Updates
  • Saturday Mac Riddles
  • Last Week on My Mac
  • sysctl information
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 8,950 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...