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Gloves in paintings: 2 Fashion

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Gloves have long been objects of fashion: paintings from Fantin-Latour’s portrait of Manet to Khnopff’s mysterious symbolism.

March 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Whatever happened to Exposure Notifications?

Last April, Apple and Google surprised the world by collaborating on features to turn our smartphones into contact tracing systems. How did that work out then?

March 21, 2021 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Gloves in paintings: 1 Meaning

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Like eyes and the rest of the face, hands are most usually seen uncovered in figurative paintings. These paintings show gloved hands which have special purposes and meaning.

March 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 91

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: I might […]

March 20, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

To fly (un)like a bird with JSON and a drone

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Time to take to the air with a Parrot ANAFI drone. Early experiences, sample video and images. Why use a flight simulator when you can fly (un)like a bird?

March 20, 2021 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The gold-digger who painted Australia: 2 From the sublime to the distressed

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Superb, finely detailed views of Australia and New Zealand from its foremost landscape painter of the late 19th century.

March 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Window controls in Big Sur

Do you know what Shift-dragging the edge of a windows does to it? Or Option-double-clicking an edge? Here’s a summary of the window controls you may have missed.

March 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

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

March 18, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Rebirth: Changing to oils

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At the start of the 15th century, Italian easel paintings used egg tempera. By the end, Leonardo da Vinci was pushing the technical boundaries using oil paint.

March 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine to APFS: How processes have changed

Analysis of the phases of backing up to APFS shows the many similarities with that to HFS+. Crucial differences arise from the use of snapshots as backups.

March 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

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