Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs & painting – 🦉 No AI content
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • Freeware
  • All Macs
  • M1-M5 Macs
  • Troubleshooting
  • Painting
  • Mac Front Page

Preparing your Mac for disposal (Catalina edition)

Got a new Mac? Unless you’re going to keep the old one, you’ll be passing it on, selling it, or recycling. Here’s how to prepare the old Mac to go away.

December 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

Myrrh in paintings: 2 Adoration and penitence

T T Read More

Myrrh makes its appearance as one of the 3 gifts of the Magi, then as an attribute of Mary Magdalene. A history in paintings by Bosch and others.

December 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Flaws in re-installing Catalina

T T Read More

Follow Apple’s instructions for a clean re-install, and you’ll probably hit an error, and be left floundering in Recovery mode with an unbootable system.

December 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Myrrh in paintings: 1 Adonis born from a tree

T T Read More

We give presents at Christmas after the 3 kings. So what is myrrh, and what are its origins in paintings? A grim story of incest, deceit and metamorphosis.

December 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 26

Proposed solutions will be published here on Monday morning. You could get all three this week, perhaps.

December 21, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

What to do when a macOS update goes wrong (Catalina edition)

Safe mode, installing the Combo updater, re-installing macOS, and other potential solutions to get that update working properly.

December 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

The gentle surrealism of Paul Nash 2 International Surrealist Exhibition

T T Read More

The exhibition featured 360 collages, paintings and sculptures from 69 artists of 14 nations. It launched Surrealism in the UK.

December 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Opening documents, SIP and quarantine flags in Catalina

T T Read More

How does Catalina’s new privacy protection extend to folders such as ~/Documents? New information fills in detail.

December 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

The gentle surrealism of Paul Nash 1 Unit One

T T Read More

Formed in January 1933 with the sculptor Henry Moore, it was crucial to British Surrealism and modern British art more generally.

December 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine: 6 Networked storage

T T Read More

From its first release, Time Machine has been designed to back up over a network. So why the problems? And how you can make your own NAS.

December 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 575 576 577 578 579 … 1,062 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Free Software Menu
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Downloads
  • SilentKnight, Skint, SystHist, silnite, LockRattler & Scrub
  • XProCheck, T2M2, LogUI, Ulbow, blowhole and log utilities
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • xattred, SpotTest, Providable, Spotcord, Metamer & xattr tools
  • Versatility & Revisionist
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma, Taccy, Signet
  • System Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, DropSum, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Text Utilities: Textovert, Disclipper, Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • sysctl information
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • PDF
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Updates
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • Saturday Mac Riddles
  • Last Week on My Mac
  • Painting topics
  • Mac problem-solving
  • M-series Macs
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 9,012 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...