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Woman Sewing: By hand 1

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From Velázquez in the 1640s to Renoir in 1882, portraits and scenes of women sewing were popular. How did they develop?

April 21, 2018 General, Life, Painting

iOS 11, or maybe 11.2.6, may change Photos’ handling of screenshots

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How the iOS Photos app may save your PNG screenshot images in JPEG format: one mystery solved, another opened.

April 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

32-bitCheck: version 1.1 scans in the background

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Now runs in the background – no more spinning beachballs! Also handles errors in folder paths better, and shows a ‘busy spinner’ when scanning.

April 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: The Forgotten Yellow of the Masters

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Lead-tin yellow features in many paintings of the Old Masters, until about 1750. It was then replaced and forgotten until 1940. Examples in major masterpieces from Rembrandt, da Vinci, Vermeer, and others.

April 20, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Lost in iCloud Translation? When PNGs suddenly become JPEGs

When you take a screenshot in iOS, it is saved in PNG format. There is no option. So why do mine come across on iCloud Drive as a JPEG?

April 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Awe of the Alps: Alexandre Calame 2

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He came to specialise in views of Lake Lucerne, but also painted some superb views of trees, and some chalets above Turner’s favourite Rigi.

April 19, 2018 General, Life, Painting

32-bitCheck: version 1.0 released with improved interface and Help book

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First full release: the only tool to check thoroughly for 32-bit apps and code bundles in whichever folders you want.

April 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

Ferdinand Hodler, Distant mountains, 1895-1902

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His Symbolism or Parallelism continued to develop in figurative works, whilst his landscape included breathtaking views over Lake Geneva, and in the Bernese Alps.

April 18, 2018 General, Life, Painting

How to browse the log on an iOS device

If you’re familiar with the macOS log and have problems with an iOS device, you can easily access its log to help in diagnosis.

April 18, 2018 Macs, Technology

All Out! Paintings of strikes

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Some superb and very different paintings of industrial unrest, an important subject for the Naturalist painters of the late 19th century.

April 17, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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