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Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

May 14, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Still Life History: 2 Clara Peeters the pioneer

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Between about 1607-21 she painted exclusively still lifes. Highly innovative, she led the way for the many painters who succeeded her.

May 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Cores shouldn’t all be the same: M1 Macs do better

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How the M1’s asymmetric cores can run background tasks more efficiently, or deliver high performance, according to Quality of Service.

May 14, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Painting Within Tent: Maria Sibylla Merian’s metamorphoses 2

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She was in Suriname for two years, painting butterflies, moths, their relationships with plants and their lifecycles, but had to return early with malaria.

May 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to restore Spotlight search of Rich Text files

Big Sur 11.3 fixed a bug which stopped indexing of the contents of RTF files. Here’s how to ensure all your RTFs are now accessible in Spotlight searches.

May 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Maria Sibylla Merian’s metamorphoses 1

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She set out to investigate, document and paint the lifecycles of butterflies and moths at a time when most thought they arose spontaneously.

May 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Booting an M1 Mac: external disks and local boot policy

How an M1 Mac can start up from an external bootable disk, and how that can fail. All about boot security policy, and how that’s applied.

May 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 9: The chain gang and the dead mule

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They meet 12 convicts, who Don Quixote frees before they stone him. On the run, they head for the mountains where they come across gold and a dead mule.

May 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to boot an M1 Mac into an older version of Big Sur

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How changing a volume’s boot policy can let you boot in older macOS, and update, if you wish. For anyone who uses external bootable disks with an M1 Mac.

May 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Rebirth: Manuals and learning

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The significance of Alberti’s textbook on painting and simplified perspective, followed by Piero’s account of perspective, and Vasari’s new history of painting.

May 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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