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Last Week on My Mac: Where’s the accelerator?

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Three recent WWDC sessions extolling Apple’s “extensive reference material” and Xcode can’t find anything on these rich and extensive libraries.

August 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Blur in paintings: 1 perspective and edges

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There were few good reasons to blur what should be sharp edges in paintings. Aerial perspective and Vermeer’s unusual optical effects explored in paintings.

August 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 111

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Twenty-three years ago, […]

August 7, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: File systems

Turning the data blocks into files and directories, these have common functions and additional features which can give rise to tricky problems.

August 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 3 The New English Art Club

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In the early 1880s, several young British artists returned from training Paris, and in 1886 formed a new club as an alternative to the Royal Society.

August 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Accelerating the M1 Mac: an introduction to SIMD

More cores are great for running more processes, but how can you make individual operations within a process faster? SIMD is one solution.

August 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has released standalone updaters for 10.14 and 10.15 Security Updates

Apple has today, 5 August, released standalone updaters for the last two Security Updates, which were first released […]

August 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Reject: John Brett’s breathtaking view of Florence

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Painted entirely in front of the motif, and in fine detail, Brett followed Ruskin’s rules for landscape paintings, but this was rejected by the Royal Academy.

August 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

There/their/they’re goes the Cupertino

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Driven crazy by spurious spelling corrections? Don’t get mad with your spell-checker, train it.

August 5, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: 7 Gathering darkness

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Now deaf and suffering from tinnitus, Goya required a long period of recuperation from his illness. His paintings moved away from light rustic view, and became darker.

August 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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