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Art and Science: 5 Colour theory

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Colour theory from the ancient Greeks to Munsell, via several artists including Leonardo da Vinci and Phillip Otto Runge.

January 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Memory Lane: Grokking memory problems in Activity Monitor

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Activity Monitor’s Memory view is the perfect place to watch for memory problems, such as a leak. Demonstrated here in macOS 12.0.1 and 12.1.

January 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 42: The governor and the wooed

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When Sancho Panza is awarded the governorship of a local town and leaves the castle to assume office, the knight is left forlorn, and amenable to a young maidservant.

January 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Did someone forget their password? Getting access to a locked Mac

Maybe you’ve just forgotten the password, or perhaps the owner/user of the Mac is no longer able to enter it. How to restore access to different models.

January 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

Coming Genius: the short art of René Beeh 1

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Four years older than Egon Schiele, Beeh was brilliant and expected to become a major artist. A century ago he died young, victim of seasonal flu.

January 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 134

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 134. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Communion, […]

January 17, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

What does Safe Mode do to an M1 Mac?

According to macOS Help, safe mode stops some software from loading, and performs a check of the startup disk. Here’s a more detailed and accurate account of what it does.

January 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of drawn carts 2

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Two famous hay wains, Goya’s stone cart, horses and carts assisting a heavy steam crane in Paris, and carrying goods in the centre of New York in 1911.

January 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: On-board diagnostics

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Handling errors means more than a couple of jargon phrases and a magic number. Designing for error requires the user to be at its centre.

January 16, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of drawn carts 1

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From two pairs of unicorns drawing the Duke and Duchess of Urbino to a horse-drawn fire engine racing through the countryside, how animals have drawn people everywhere.

January 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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