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Painting underwater

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Some of the very few paintings that show what’s underwater, most usually a drowning woman like Shakespeare’s Ophelia.

July 14, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Did Apple forget its own App Store?

It has taken 2 years for virtualisation on Apple silicon to support Apple ID with iCloud and its features. But it still doesn’t let you run almost all App Store apps.

July 14, 2024 Macs, Technology

Commemorating 100 years since the death of Henrietta Ward, Victorian history painter

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Painter to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she was a friend of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. But the Royal Academy refused her, because she was a woman.

July 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 264

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

July 13, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Macs had malware long before Mac OS X

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Although viruses native to the Mac arrived slightly later, by the end of the 1990s there were at least 35. Here’s a brief look at the tools available then.

July 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

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

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