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The Price of Free Software: Trend Micro’s apps exfiltrate your browser history

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Surely you don’t mean the Trend Micro? The cybersecurity experts? No – it must be a fake site. But is it?

September 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 16 Agesilaus and Pompey

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A glimpse into the fascinating story of Pompey, one of Rome’s most successful military commanders, who was murdered off the coast of Egypt when a fugitive from his father-in-law, Caesar.

September 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Repairing permissions diagrammed

Why might we want to repair permissions, and how does it differ now from what is used to be? As shown in a clear diagram.

September 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Legends of England in Paint: Lady Godiva

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Why did the Countess of Mercia ride naked through the streets of an Anglo-Saxon town? And who was Peeping Tom?

September 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: App Store Eavesdroppers

The Mac App Store has been selling (or giving) us spyware. How can Apple ever live this down?

September 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Legends of England in Paint: Robin Hood

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The first of two looking at the telling of English legends in paintings: Robin Hood and his ‘Merry Men’, popular for the last 500 years.

September 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Security, privacy, and why XProtect won’t stop apps reading your email

The differences between security and privacy, why we need effective controls over both, and how those controls are different.

September 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto, 12: Back to mythology for the Doges

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Six mythological works, which culminate in what is probably his finest of all: the Origin of the Milky Way, analysed in detail here.

September 7, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Privacy + Scripting = Problems

Control of one app by another is an important but difficult aspect of Mojave’s new privacy controls. Here’s how it handles that at present, and some of the issues it raises.

September 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Italian History and the Classics: the paintings of Giuseppe Sciuti

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The story of a Renaissance city-state on Sardinia, a good mother, and the state funeral of a great Greek general on Sicily – some of the paintings shown.

September 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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