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

Category Archive: Life

Emojis: cute but deeply flawed

T T Read More

Akihabara is fertile territory for the likes of emoji: exploratory, fun, chic, mobile, language-free, but deeply flawed.

December 5, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Storyspace: the original hypertext app

T T Read More

Born in the same year as HyperCard, this is the most sophisticated authoring environment for true hypertext. It is now available for OS X El Capitan.

December 4, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

The Art Fund: a UK charity which can save you more than you give

How you can give money to a deserving charity, and get back more in savings than you gave in the first place.

December 4, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Give us a break: keep Unicode clean

T T Read More

Branding Unicode emojis is just too much. Just say no to Nestlé’s ‘break’ proposal.

December 2, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Locked on the lochs

What is the best navigation system for driving through Glasgow? Perhaps not a bricked satnav.

November 27, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Lost in translation: an amusing ad

Machine translation has come on leaps and bounds, but there are still times when Google Translate and other […]

November 23, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Problems viewing images on this blog: an apology

You have, I hope, noticed that I try to obtain good images for the articles on this site, […]

November 22, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Rhetoric of the impossible: Paris and privacy

Rather than blathering on about surveillance, our politicians had better start preparing their excuses.

November 19, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Triple Book Review: Richard Mabey and a cavalcade of plants

Three fascination explorations of the relationships between humans and plants.

November 18, 2015 General, Life, Painting, Technology

How GPS usually exaggerates your performance

T T Read More

Now you can accuse others of inflating their workout performances, with science to back you up.

November 15, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 334 335 336 337 338 … 356 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, 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, 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 8,904 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...