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Last Week on My Mac: Is Dark Mode overdesigned?

It’s not just inversion of display colours, but has colour tinting from the Desktop, accents which change the colour of controls, and all icons need to be redesigned. Just to be cool?

June 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Painting the Class: schools from 1640 to 1860

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Chaos and physical punishment in the schoolrooms of the 17th and 18th centuries gave way to improvements in the 19th.

June 16, 2018 General, Life, Painting

LaTeX and MathML equations come to iWork, as well as iBooks Author

Welcome and useful additions, particularly to Pages, where these additions fit in well with styles. But some surprising shortcomings too.

June 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: Controversial Cadmiums, yellow to red

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Slow to be taken up, as they were so expensive and Chrome Yellow almost as good, they then came to dominate palettes, until their sudden fall from favour.

June 15, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Mail Drop, iCloud, and large files

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Need to send large files to someone? Don’t have time to let iCloud get round to it when it’s ready? Try Mail Drop – but not in the Mail app.

June 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

Alberto Pasini’s Oriental World, 2

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Although intricate in their detail, none of these paintings is larger than 90 cm in either dimension – and several are quite painterly in a miniature way.

June 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Compatibility of my apps with Mojave: details and advice

If you’re already using the developer preview of Mojave, or considering being one of the public beta-testers, here’s detailed information about compatibility of all my apps and tools.

June 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Alberto Pasini’s Oriental World, 1

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A pupil of the great Chassériau, he spent several years touring the Middle East with French diplomatic missions. Here are his paintings.

June 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Unified but not uniform: how the log has changed

The fields stored in the log have changed across Sierra and High Sierra. Analyse them on the wrong system, and you could lose content without being aware of it.

June 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pierre Bonnard: Light and Mirrors, 1908-1909

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Focussing his development and innovation on his intimate domestic scenes, he brought a new light, more mirror play, and a first glimpse of his future style.

June 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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