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Celebrating the bicentenary of Eugène Boudin: Pioneer of Impressionism 2

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After the First Impressionist exhibition, he concentrated on achieving success at the Salon, and Durand-Ruel represented him.

July 12, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Sequoia, virtualisation and Apple ID

How to create and configure a Sequoia beta to run in a virtual machine on an Apple silicon Mac, either in Sequoia or Sonoma, and a surprise in its features.

July 12, 2024 Macs, Technology

A to Z of Landscapes: Valleys

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Two strategies illustrated: painting in the valley and de-emphasising the surrounding hills, or painting from above the valley, with the hills not visible.

July 11, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Why is kernel_task taking so much CPU?

Why you shouldn’t try killing kernel_task, but take action to help cool your Mac and reduce the heat it’s producing.

July 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

Commemorating Þórarinn B. Þorláksson, a founding father of painting in Iceland

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One of the founding fathers of modern Icelandic painting, he trained in Copenhagen and painted landscapes in the early 20th century.

July 10, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Snapshots aren’t backups

Most backup apps make snapshots, so why not use those instead of conventional backups? Because of the weaknesses of snapshots, as explained.

July 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator

Hot on the heels of the slightly earlier update to XProtect, Apple has just released an update to […]

July 9, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has just released an update to XProtect

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, […]

July 9, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Sea of Mists: Influenced, Arnold Böcklin 2

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Between 1880 and 1886 he painted 5 different versions of ‘Island of the Dead’, which owes much to German Romanticism.

July 9, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Excluding folders and files from Time Machine, Spotlight, and iCloud Drive

A brief reference to excluding items from being backed up, from Spotlight indexing their contents, and for them to be copied up to iCloud Drive.

July 9, 2024 Macs, Technology

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