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Still Life History: A is for apple

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In myth and legend, apples have determined the future of civilisation twice. They’re also some of the most enduring objects to be seen in still life paintings.

August 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Knowing what not to back up, and how

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Don’t clutter your backups with files you’d never want to restore. Here are five methods to exclude items from Time Machine backups to keep them leaner.

August 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 21: Spellbound

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Seeing that Don Quixote might discover their deception, the priest and the barber hurry him away in a cage on the back of an ox cart. He still thinks he’s enchanted by a spell.

August 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 110

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 110. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Errand […]

August 2, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Forming unusual characters using Unicode and typography

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How can you create a new accented or other character which doesn’t appear in Unicode? It depends on whether you want it in text, or PDF.

August 2, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Landscape embedded 2

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More landscape views embedded in 19th and 20th century paintings, as a posthumous tribute to a colleague, or a context for a still life, perhaps.

August 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Squeezing a thimbleful of update into a ten-gallon can

In macOS 11.5.1, Apple has squeezed a thimbleful of a patch into a ten-gallon can of update, more than 99% of which is overhead.

August 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Landscape embedded 1

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Miniature landscape views embedded in more conventional paintings were not uncommon during the Renaissance, before landscape was established as a genre.

July 31, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 110

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Errand boy configured […]

July 31, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Snapshots

A great advance in APFS which enables Big Sur’s Sealed System Volume, and backups being made to APFS. Here they’re fully explained.

July 31, 2021 Macs, Technology

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