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The gold-digger who painted Australia: 1 From Vienna to Victoria

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An Austrian who trained at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, joined a gold rush in Australia, then painted the continent’s landscapes.

March 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Hyperinflation: comparing update sizes from Mojave to Big Sur

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Total updates required by 10.14 were 21.5 GB in 10 updates; for 10.15, those rose to 32.2 GB in 12 updates. For M1 Macs, Big Sur has already required 22.3 GB in 6 updates, and it hasn’t got to version 11.3 yet.

March 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Rebirth: Was perspective essential to the Renaissance?

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For over a century, Italian painters had strived to achieve coherent perspective projection, but it was until about 1420 that this was achieved. How essential was it?

March 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine to APFS: Understanding backups

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How each of the three different backup schemes used by Time Machine has worked, and how snapshots can work as backups.

March 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: William John Burchell’s long treks for plants

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In four years, he travelled over 4,000 miles in largely unexplored parts of South Africa, and collected more than 50,000 specimens. And he painted.

March 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

iCloud Secure Backup comes to macOS

An important feature for many iOS users, this has now appeared in macOS, despite not apparently being exposed to the user. Here’s what I know.

March 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Introduction to a new series: Don Quixote

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Starting a new series, looking at paintings of the first modern European novel. With its deep humour, Cervantes’ masterpiece has been extensively painted.

March 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to check the integrity of your backups and iCloud files

How can you check the integrity of important files you have stored in iCloud, or in a Time Machine backup, such as those made by Big Sur to APFS?

March 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Time Machine to APFS: Initiating an auto backup

How the start of Time Machine backups to APFS volumes is scheduled and dispatched, and a fascinating Secure Backup Daemon.

March 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Big Sur 11.2.3 (updated)

Apple has this evening released yet another ‘patch’ update to Big Sur, bringing it to version 11.2.3. This […]

March 8, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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