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Author: hoakley

The Eclectic Light flickers: my iMac might be dead

You know, from soon after getting up, that some days are not going to be easy. Yesterday was […]

December 13, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Q&A: Bluetooth headphones

They work with my iPad, disconnect from my MacBook Pro, and don’t work at all from my old Mac Pro. Are they duff?

December 13, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: El Capitan keeps beachballing

After a difficult install, El Capitan nows spends much of the time beach balling. How can I fix it?

December 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

Storyspace 3: using guards to structure reading

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Guard links, only followed when conditions are met, allow us to structure the reading of a non-fiction book.

December 12, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Whatever happened to QuickTime?

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It may have become QTKit, but QuickTime is still going strong, and now 24 years old.

December 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Removing duplicate tracks in iTunes

Why is Automator so poor at a simple task like removing duplicate tracks from iTunes?

December 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

Trees in the landscape: 10. Thomas Gainsborough and cloud canopies

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He intended to be a landscape painter, and was co-founder of the British school of landscape painting. A major influence of Constable and others.

December 11, 2015 General, Painting

Internet-enabled toys, kids, and their safety

As a parent, threats to children now seem out of your control. Should you let them have that Internet-enabled Barbie doll, or remain a Luddite?

December 11, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: iTunes with a mind of its own

Whenever I plug a phono lead into my MacBook’s audio output, iTunes fires up and starts playing. How can I stop it?

December 10, 2015 Macs, Technology

KeyStrokes: the ultimate assistive keyboard

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The mother of all virtual keyboards, completely customisable, and operated by the input device of your choice.

December 10, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

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