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Mojave System Preferences bug: Accent colours get confused

Grey, non-grey, grey – and the General pane has already lost track of the Accent colour. Another sloppy bug.

February 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 7 Adding a PDF Help book

A simple way to provide a proper Help book for your app, and separate PDF documentation without wasted effort. Uses Swift in Xcode.

February 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Landscape oil sketches from Valenciennes to Pissarro

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Examples of the work of Thomas Jones, Constable, Corot, Blechen, Boudin, Jongkind, Pissarro, CΓ©zanne, Sargent, Monet, and more.

February 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Some apps break LockRattler’s update features

Don’t the update buttons work in LockRattler? It’s probably because something is blocking outgoing traffic.

February 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Problems of PDF

Why don’t some PDFs display properly outside Adobe software? Will PDFs ever become more accessible? And what to do when they get damaged?

February 17, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

In Memoriam Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes 2 Oil sketches

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Nine of his brilliant oil sketches made in front of the motif in the Roman Campagna between 1782-85, which helped change the history of art.

February 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting

PDF without Adobe: 6 Quartz and Preview

A close look at just what macOS PDF support and Preview can do well, including a hidden file conversion feature.

February 16, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

In Memoriam Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes 1 Finished paintings

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Almost a century after its publication, Pissarro still recommended Valenciennes’ textbook on landscape painting. Here’s why.

February 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

PDF without Adobe: 5 Building your own PDF reader 3

By popular request, how to customise the PDF reader’s interface to enlarge the window and show larger thumbnails. With two lines of code.

February 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Quick Actions 5: Third-party solution

Searching for third party Quick Actions, I came across the excellent Yoink, the only app which seems to have solved them. Or has it?

February 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

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