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Saturday Mac riddles 134

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Communion, Civil, banking, […]

January 15, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Metal

Metal provides low-level access to 3D graphics, rendering and compute features in GPUs. With the deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL, it’s vital, especially for M1 Macs/

January 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Painting Everyday London: 1 Spencer Gore started

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Son of the first Wimbledon tennis champion, he developed a Post-Impressionist style in his paintings from 1907 to the time of his marriage in early 1912.

January 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions for macOS Monterey and Big Sur

From killing a process, through a regular restart, to Recovery and a bootable external recovery disk, all you need to know about fixing your Mac in macOS 11 and 12.

January 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

Characters in Painted Stories: 13 Telling a new story

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Can a single painting tell the viewer a story which they don’t already know? Examples from Holman Hunt, Degas, Orchardson, Collier and Chierici.

January 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Scheduling of Processes on M1 Series Chips: first draft

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An accessible summary of the CPU cores in M1 chips, and how they appear to be managed by macOS to get the best for different classes of process.

January 13, 2022 Macs, Technology

Characters in Painted Stories: 12 Telling a familiar story

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Until the 19th century, narrative paintings showed stories which the viewer already knew, ideally at the moment of change or transformation.

January 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How macOS manages many processes on M1 cores

Results from running 10-70 identical compute-intensive processes on M1 chips shows the differences in strategy between background and high priority settings.

January 12, 2022 Macs, Technology

Art and Science: 4 The struggle with yellow

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Yellow ochre, orpiment, Naples yellow, lead-tin yellow, Indian yellow, chrome yellow, and cadmium yellow – most toxic or at least harmful to someone.

January 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Ruby text in Pages

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A valuable feature for many Pages users, it’s carefully hidden from anyone who doesn’t normally use Japanese, Chinese or Korean.

January 11, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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