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Category Archive: Technology

Alchemy: 8 – Bladders and Megilp

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Putting oil paint into bladders allowed painters to take it out for use outdoors. But adding some media caused paintings to age badly and fall apart.

September 1, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

Aliases and links: understanding their differences

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Do you know the differences between an alias, hard link, and symbolic link? Each has its uses, and understanding them is important.

September 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple updates Gatekeeper data to version 97

Apple has pushed out a silent update to El Capitan’s Gatekeeper configuration data, bringing it to version 97, […]

September 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Dynamic stories: text substitution and stretchtext in Storyspace (and Tinderbox)

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True hypertext is dynamic, and changes according to context, reader actions, and more. Here’s how to use it – including stretchtext.

August 31, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Another malicious version of Transmission

You may recall an earlier infected version of the BitTorrent client Transmission. History has now almost repeated itself: […]

August 30, 2016 Macs, Technology

Is crapware now the price of blocking tracking?

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Are advertisers now deliberately delivering unwanted crapware to those using ad and tracker blockers?

August 30, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

The app sandbox and how it protects

Unlike iOS, OS X does not require apps to run in a sandbox. But when they do, there are important benefits to the user.

August 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Where the law fails to protect

A chilling tale with a happy ending – for once – which shows how our governments don’t want to improve our computer security.

August 28, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Alchemy: 7 – Rembrandt and surface texture

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His later paintings in particular were the first major works to exploit the visual effects produced by surface texture. How?

August 27, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

AI and robots: a better understanding

We have become confused as to what artificial intelligence might be, and condemned remote-control vehicles as robots. Let’s correct this, and refocus more accurately.

August 27, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

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