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Art and Science: 2 Synthetic pigments

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As a primary colour, blue is essential in painting. The quest for the right blues has spanned the world and resulted in a succession of synthetic pigments which have influenced art.

December 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

CoreServices apps: Wireless Diagnostics

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If you want to check out your Mac’s Wi-Fi connection, Wireless Diagnostics is ideal. It’ll show you signal dropouts and give its opinion.

December 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

Landscape Composition: 17 A short history

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From Giorgione, DΓΌrer and Altdorfer to Turner, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir: landmarks in the composition of landscape paintings.

December 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Anomalies in base performance of M1 cores

How can the two E cores in an M1 Pro/Max apparently match the performance of the four in the original M1? Answers, please.

December 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Characters in Painted Stories: 11 The moment of change

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Do Booker’s Seven Basic Plots reduce to a series of events leading to a change in fortune (reversal, peripeteia), and establishing the outcome?

December 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Is backing up to networked storage improving?

Backing up using Time Machine over Gigabit Ethernet to another Mac providing shared backup storage in Monterey 12.1 delivered good performance of 35-43 MB/s.

December 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1921: 3 Landscapes and the future

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Landscapes from Lovis Corinth, Pierre Bonnard, Georg Janny, Anita RΓ©e, Charles Demuth, and the last word from Piet Mondrian.

December 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 130

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 130. Here are my solutions to them. 1: They […]

December 20, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How to get an old version of macOS, OS X and Xcode

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You might want an old macOS or OS X installer to build a Virtual Machine, or for an old Mac. Here’s how to get them, and old versions of Xcode.

December 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painted Deserts 2

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When the Salons were flooding with fleshly dreams of harems, landscape artists were depicting the desert with its camels and caravans.

December 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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