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Changing Paintings: 44 The birth of Hercules

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Juno won’t let the labour of Hercules’ mother progress, so one of maids tricks Lucina into allowing the infant’s delivery, for which the maid is turned into a weasel.

November 4, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 280

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 280. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Third […]

November 4, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

How does QuickLook create Thumbnails and Previews? With an update to Mints

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How to discover which QuickLook generator or app extension should be creating Thumbnails or Previews for different file types, using this new version of Mints.

November 4, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Paintings of Gloucester Harbour and Dogtown: 1910-1936

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Louise Upton Brumback moves from the harbour to the beaches, and with Marsden Hartley visits the abandoned settlement of Dogtown.

November 3, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: M4 incoming

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Comparing CPU core counts and maximum core frequencies across the four families in the M series, plus expected performance of Thunderbolt 5. Which M4 Mac should you buy?

November 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Gloucester Harbour: 1850-1910

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Paintings by Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Homer, Willard Metcalf, Frederick Childe Hassam, and Frank Duveneck.

November 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 280

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

November 2, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of icons, thumbnails and QuickLook

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From the original Desktop databases linking files to distinctive icons, to the sophistication of QuickLook, how display of thumbnails for files has changed in Mac OS.

November 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

Interiors by design: Revival

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Middle class collectors came to like paintings of interiors, sometimes without any figures at all. Others were Orientalist, or told open-ended narrative.

November 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Why you need to make archives, and how to

Backups are for recovery, while archives are for posterity. Plan for the future now by storing important files on durable media in your personal archives.

November 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

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