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Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 147, […]

July 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 5a Aristides

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Aristides the Just, who was a general at the Battle of Marathon, but refused to line his pockets from the public purse.

July 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Open a document: how it works, and where it can go wrong, 1: identification

How does macOS open the document that you double-click/tap? First of 3 parts explaining what should happen and where it can go wrong.

July 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Monkeying Around: Painting apes 2

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Landseer paints a La Fontaine fable; Bonnard, Corinth, and others complete the history.

July 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Beyond mere coding

The moment you start writing apps that work with documents, you’ll need to know how to use UTIs. That requires inspired searching, guesswork, and trial and error.

July 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Monkeying Around: Painting apes 1

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For the last 3,500, monkeys have often appeared in European paintings. Here’s a brief survey, with examples from Botticelli, Brueghels, Clara Peeters, Watteau, and others.

July 7, 2018 General, Life, Painting

UTIutility 1.0b2 now looks even deeper into UTIs and file type designators

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Additional information is now shown for UTIs, it has its own custom app icon, and works wonderfully in Dark Mode.

July 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

More app updates: Unicode and text tools

Apfelstrudel, which explores Unicode normalisation and string operations; Dystextia for obfuscating Roman text using spoofing; and Rosettavert for converting between text encodings.

July 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: What used to be Naples Yellow

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Lead antimonate yellow was the original Naple Yellow, but had first been used long before in glassware. Paintings by Claude Lorrain, BΓΆcklin, Renoir, and others.

July 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Is this the longest-running bug in macOS?

For around 5 years, if not longer, the Finder has suffered from an obvious bug which disrupts the workflow. Will Mojave fix it?

July 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

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