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Paintings of writing 1

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Paintings by Botticelli, Raphael, Velรกzquez, Gerard ter Borch, and Vermeer, including an unusual Madonna in which the Virgin Mary is writing the Magnificat.

December 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 76

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

December 5, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Bad design makes macOS a Tower of Babel

SilentKnight was producing some results in a mixture of English and Dutch. Its environment settings needed correction. When that didn’t fix it, I looked deeper to find language-unfriendly design in a command tool.

December 5, 2020 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1920: Portraits

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Featuring paintings by Paul Helleu, Anita Rรฉe, Anna Hills, Pierre Bonnard, Edvard Munch, Lovis Corinth and others.

December 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

How fast is an M1 Target Disk?

How to connect your M1 Mac in Target Disk mode, avoiding an endless restart loop, and how fast to expect it to perform. Plus more on benchmarks.

December 4, 2020 Macs, Technology

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 […]

December 3, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood: an index of its members

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A table of contents and index to all the women Pre-Raphaelite painters covered in this series. Complete with some of their finest work.

December 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Does Big Sur need a bit more Help?

macOS Help system was last revamped in High Sierra, and has worked well. Until Big Sur has problems finding Help books, and shows some in French. How Help should work.

December 3, 2020 Macs, Technology

The Faerie Queene 16: Two monsters slain

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Amoret is held captive by a monster who deflowers virgins and eats them. A giant riding a dromedary captures a young squire and has to be rescued by Prince Arthur.

December 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Use AppleArchive for compressing and decompressing files with Cormorant 1.0

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First full release of this free utility designed to help move apps and more using AirDrop, as it doesn’t put decompressed contents into quarantine.

December 2, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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