Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs & painting – 🦉 No AI content
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • Freeware
  • All Macs
  • M1-M5 Macs
  • Troubleshooting
  • Painting
  • Mac Front Page

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 109

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 109. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Nearby, […]

July 26, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

A Short History of Malware Protection in macOS

From the start of voluntary code signing in 2007, defences against malware in macOS have changed dramatically. Here’s an overview of what has happened.

July 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

River in Flight: paintings of waterfalls 2

T T Read More

From Church’s view of Niagara, Bierstadt in the Sierra Nevada, to two early landscape views of Ferdinand Hodler.

July 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Is that a thunderstorm coming? macOS 11.6, 12, and Apple Silicon Macs

When should we expect macOS 11.6? When will Monterey be released, and when will the next Apple Silicon models be announced? Here are some wild guesses.

July 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

River in Flight: paintings of waterfalls 1

T T Read More

From Tivoli, near Rome, in 1757, through the Alps with Wolf and Turner, to remote Albania as seen by Edward Lear, artist and poet.

July 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 109

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

July 24, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Six years on from Yosemite to Big Sur

Haven’t Macs and macOS changed over the last six years? Here are fictitious diary entries to illustrate the deep-seated changes.

July 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 1 Foundations

T T Read More

Before the 1880s, Whistler’s landscapes were very painterly, painted alla prima, showed views later featured by Impressionists, and even used wooden panels of the same size.

July 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Code in ARM Assembly: Floating point registers and conversions

T T Read More

Floating point numbers are very different from integers, but are loaded and stored much the same. Conversion between registers, including to and from integers, is complex.

July 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

Reject: Gustave Caillebotte’s Parquet Planers

T T Read More

How on earth could three workmen preparing the wooden floor of an artist’s studio be vulgar? And how could that change a realist into an Impressionist?

July 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 427 428 429 430 431 … 1,067 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Free Software Menu
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Downloads
  • SilentKnight, Skint, SystHist, silnite, LockRattler & Scrub
  • XProCheck, T2M2, LogUI, Ulbow, blowhole and log utilities
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • xattred, SpotTest, Providable, Spotcord, Metamer & xattr tools
  • Versatility & Revisionist
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma, Taccy, Signet
  • System Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, DropSum, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Text Utilities: Textovert, Disclipper, Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • sysctl information
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • PDF
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Updates
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • Saturday Mac Riddles
  • Last Week on My Mac
  • Painting topics
  • Mac problem-solving
  • M-series Macs
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 9,143 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar

Loading Comments...