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Category Archive: Technology

Hazel and SearchKeyLite bring order to your documents

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My screenshots are now tagged with metadata supporting Spotlight search, and Hazel uses that to sort them into folders automatically.

February 10, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

The Tables Turned: Painters paint photographers

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Some painters couldn’t miss the chance to promote their art over the new medium of photography. Even though the war was lost, top photographers still liked their portraits painted.

February 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Watching folders – 1 for users

A quick tour through Folder Actions (AppleScript), Hazel (System Preferences pane, commercial), and fswatch and their potential uses.

February 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Under spam attack again: commenting requires login (temporary measure)

I am afraid that this blog has once again been under a spam attack all day, in which […]

February 8, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Adobe has fixed a Flash Player vulnerability which is already being exploited

Adobe has released an updated version of its Flash Player, bringing it to version 28.0.0.161. This fixes a […]

February 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: Cobalt Blue, the 19th century sky

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Introduced in about 1806, it was used by Turner, Friedrich, Delacroix, Corot, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Impressionists, and many others. With examples of those works.

February 7, 2018 General, Painting, Technology

Pigment: a new series looking at pigments in paintings

Materials determine what is possible in painting, and pigments are central to that. This series looks at the history and use of different pigments, with extensive examples of their use.

February 7, 2018 General, Painting, Technology

xattr: org.openmetainfo: and org.openmetainfo.time: families, third-party metadata

Families of types covering most forms of metadata, published in open source in 2009. Now largely superseded by com.apple.metadata equivalents.

February 7, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

What to do when a disk image won’t mount

You have double-clicked on a disk image, and macOS refuses. Here is what you can do to get that image to mount, even when it’s damaged.

February 6, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Scripting in Swift: Checking free disk space

Robust example Swift code for checking the free space available on a volume. A good quick check to run before trying to write out anything hefty.

February 5, 2018 Macs, Technology

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