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A volcanic weekend of paintings 1 Fuji to Hekla

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Mount Fuji by Hokusai, Naotake, Hiroshige, and pioneer botanical painter Marianne North. Childe Hassam’s Mounts Adams and St Helens, Church’s Cotopaxi, and others.

August 15, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 373

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: King Harald […]

August 15, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Identify files in APFS using inode numbers

How to resolve an inode number to a path and filename, and how to go the other way from a file to an inode number. How you can tell which files are on System and Data volumes.

August 15, 2026 Macs, Technology

A cold countryside: James Ward 2

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Some innovative sketches and studies, with a series of major commissions including his huge landscape of Gordale Scar that wouldn’t fit.

August 14, 2026 General, Life, Painting

What to do when a macOS update goes wrong

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Anything can happen, but so long as you have a recent backup you should be able fix the problems and get back up and running again. Here’s how.

August 14, 2026 Macs, Technology

Brushstrokes: Divisionism

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Seurat intended to use optical mixing of many tiny dots of colour, often contrasting, in Divisionism. How this worked out in his major paintings.

August 13, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Why and how to check your SSDs Trim correctly

Trimming ensures an SSD can write data as fast as it can read it. Although most SSDs should be Trimmed when they’re mounted, if you’re unsure, here’s simple test to tell whether any SSD does Trim correctly.

August 13, 2026 Macs, Technology

In the shadow: Not quite

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Among the greatest challenges in painting, cast shadows aren’t always correct. Examples from Masolino, Canaletto, Prendergast, Ravilious, Cézanne and Seurat.

August 12, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Why do macOS update sizes vary so much?

With yet another macOS security update to 26.6.2 due shortly, why do the download sizes of these updates vary so widely?

August 12, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to […]

August 11, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

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