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Calendars, Mathematica, and the Mac: a curious but productive union.

July 6, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Broken Clouds, or why you won’t find my embarrassing photos

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Even though images of you may not be as sought after as those of celebrities, we all need to sharpen up our Cloud security.

July 5, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Scanning paint colour charts

I have noticed that the colours in scans are not particularly accurate when compared with the originals. How can I improve them?

July 5, 2015 Macs, Painting, Technology

Beyond the French Impressionists: 24 Australia, Roberts, Streeton, Conder

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In the late 1880s, several painters started to work in the rural area of Heidelberg, east of Melbourne, adopting a style which later became known as Australian Impressionism.

July 5, 2015 Painting

Have you ever been had?

Imagine my horror when I found that I had installed an unwanted cleaning utility on my iMac.

July 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Target optical drives

Is it possible to access an optical drive using Target mode?

July 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Disposing of a dead hard drive

How can I make the files on a dead hard disk unreadable before I discard it?

July 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

Timing shots, a software obituary

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Barry Salt analysed film shot structure using a stop-watch and film viewer. The late TOKI Shot did this semi-automatically.

July 4, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Replacing an ‘Angle-poise’ iMac

Could I get my mother’s old iMac reconditioned? If not, how can I replace it like-for-like?

July 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Mark my words

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For reasons known only to Microsoft, Word will never tell you that your document is too tough for a 17 year-old to read.

July 3, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

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