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How to unshorten a URL

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Don’t trust those bit.ly and tinyurl.com shortened links, as they could take you somewhere nasty. This utility lets you check them out in safety.

April 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

Animal Sentiments: In memoriam Briton Rivière 1

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He became extremely popular, with his genre scenes containing animals, particularly dogs. A selection from the early years of his career.

April 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

How apps save changed files

Apps don’t work like the Finder. Most use ‘safe saves’ designed to prevent a failed save losing the original document. Here’s how they work.

April 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

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

April 16, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Goddess of the Week: Nyx (Night)

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She became quite popular in 19th century paintings, in association with Morpheus and his opium poppies.

April 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

File Integrity 4 : Error-correcting code is available for macOS

Do you want ECC for your important documents? It’s available now, free, without the complications of ZFS or cost of RAID 6.

April 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

Orlando Furioso: Jailbreak and a deceptive duel

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Ruggiero is thrown into jail, about to be cruelly killed, when his opponent for the hand of Bradamante helps him escape. Things then go from bad to worse.

April 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Drag and drop for file integrity checks with Fintch

A nimbler version of Dintch is designed to drag and drop files and smaller folders to tag then and check their integrity.

April 15, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Gods and goddesses of the week, a new series

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Reading many European paintings depends on identifying classical deities shown. This new series helps you do that, and understand what’s going on.

April 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Copy, move and clone files in APFS, a primer

What happens when you copy a large file to the same volume, or duplicate it, on the same APFS volume? Here are the answers.

April 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

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