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In memoriam Maurice Prendergast who died a century ago

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Best-known for his watercolours of Venice, he was a Post-Impressionist, and an early promoter of the art of Cézanne and Matisse in the US.

February 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

PDF, Live Text and Spotlight: troubled relationships

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Searching the text content of PDF documents often doesn’t work well, sometimes not at all. And recovering what you can see is text can also fail miserably.

February 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 109 Candles for effect

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An early Rembrandt, chiaroscuro lighting, one of Adam Elsheimer’s oil on copper paintings, above Frederick the Great, and adorning Goya’s painting hat.

January 31, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Apple has released an update to XProtect

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

January 31, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Skint 1.01 fixes SSV checks on Macs with multiple boot systems

If you run a Mac with more than one boot system, this update should enable it to check the SSV, although some Macs remain different.

January 31, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 108 Candles as symbols

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Candles in Candlemas, as votives, at pardons and funerals, and snuffed out as part of excommunication. Used in sorcery, allegory, and Vanitas.

January 30, 2024 General, Life, Painting

The World According to Macintosh (in 1994)

An article published in The Mac 30 years ago to celebrate the Mac’s tenth birthday, with a glance back at the realities, and some predictions of the future in 2004.

January 30, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 4 Io as a cow, the eyes of Argus, and Syrinx

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Jupiter wants Io, but after raping her turns her into a cow for safe-keeping. Juno suspects, though, and puts the cow under the watchful hundred eyes of Argus.

January 29, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 240

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 240. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Before […]

January 29, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Skint will keep a quiet eye on your Mac’s key settings

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Checks 8 key settings and functions essential for your Mac’s security and well-being, from whether SIP is enabled to XProtect. Runs automatically every hour, or as a single-shot.

January 29, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

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