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God of the Week: Janus

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The god of transitions, gates and doorways, who may have lent his name to the month of January. Paintings by Rubens, Poussin and Mengs.

January 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 80

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 80. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Hold […]

January 4, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Disk read and write tests go random in Stibium 1.0b6

Now with proper random write and read tests, sophisticated analysis including group medians and linear regression, and detailing reporting.

January 4, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Debut: 2 The answers, who painted what

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The answer to yesterday’s quiz: ten wonderful paintings which launched ten major artists of the 19th century, although their better-known works are quite different.

January 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Fessing up

If you’re using Catalina or Big Sur, you should by now only be obtaining apps from four sources: […]

January 3, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Debut: 1 Can you identify the artists?

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Ten early successes of well-known nineteenth century artists. Can you identify who painted each of them? Answers tomorrow.

January 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 80

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

January 2, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Macs of the past and the future

Processors haven’t just increased in speed and packed more transistors into a smaller space. Features such as the Neural Engine in the M1 show Apple is moving in a different direction.

January 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Next year in paintings: Ford Madox Brown, Antoine Watteau, Fernand Khnopff

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A look forward to the eclectic collection of painters whose anniversaries I’ll be marking here, and a glimpse of some of the paintings to come. Happy New Year!

January 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Let’s make 2021 the year of Disk Utility

There’s no more critical app on your Mac, yet Disk Utility has suffered years of neglect – years in which APFS has grown many new features, and all Disk Utility gets is bugs and workaround.

January 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

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