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When the App Store says to redownload all your apps

What does the iCloud icon mean in the App Store? That the app has to be ‘redownloaded’. So what does it mean when every app you ever bought shows it?

December 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

LockRattler 4.18 should now highlight new updates

Recommended for all users: new updates since the app was last run should now be shown in red text.

December 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Jerusalem Delivered: 13 Summary and highlights

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Twenty cantos summarised with the very best of their paintings by Delacroix, Teniers the Younger, Domenico Tintoretto, Poussin, Tiepolo, and others.

December 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Rendering Rich Text in Dark Mode

A proposal for ensuring consistent display of Rich Text across apps and tools in macOS, and elsewhere.

December 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

How to fix a Secure Note (or anything else) which won’t display in Dark Mode

You open a Secure Note or other text, only to see its content seems to have vanished when viewed in Dark Mode. Here’s how to fix it.

December 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Alhambra: 3 Landscapes 1886-1913

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A couple of local artists, plus the virtuoso oil sketches of Joaquín Sorolla, a watercolour by John Singer Sargent, and two brilliant works by Muñoz Degrain.

December 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on my Mac: Crippling Rich Text with Dark Mode

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Mojave’s handling of Rich Text in Dark Mode is now broken in several places, including the new version of TextEdit, in QuickLook, and Pages.

December 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Alhambra: 2 Landscapes 1767-1883

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Increasingly popular during the 19th century, the Alhambra was painted by von Lenbach, Regnault, Childe Hassam, Australian Tom Roberts, and others.

December 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting

LockRattler 4.17 changes datestamping and offers a better file name

More accurate datestamping in its reports, and a default filename which incorporates date and time. Worthwhile for all users.

December 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Alhambra: 1 History

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Time for a long weekend in the warmth of Granada, Spain. Here’s some history of the palaces of the Alhambra in paintings by Regnault and others.

December 7, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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