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Apple has just pushed security updates to MRT and XProtect

Apple has just pushed updates to its MRT and XProtect security tools for High Sierra, Sierra, and El […]

November 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 55 – Hippomenes’ race with Atalanta

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The man beats the woman quite unfairly, then on the way home they stop off to make love in a temple. Their misbehaviour is punished. More superb narrative paintings.

November 7, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Return of the zombie app: is it a feature or bug?

Why would anyone tell the user that an app had quit, but actually leave it hanging around, near-useless, in memory?

November 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Pont-Aven Artists’ Colony: a brief history – 3, after Gauguin

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A selection of paintings by other artists who painted there after 1886. Includes Laval, Moret, O’Conor, Sérusier, and of course Vincent van Gogh.

November 6, 2017 General, Painting

Did that app quit, or is it just napping?

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Put TextEdit or Preview into the background when they haven’t got an open window, and they quit automatically, don’t they? Actually they don’t, they just become zombies.

November 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

Pont-Aven Artists’ Colony: a brief history – 2, Gauguin and Bernard

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From 1886, the colony at Pont-Aven was dominated by the struggling former stockbroker Paul Gauguin. Among his friends was Émile Bernard. Here are some of the works from that period.

November 5, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Unfinished business

Each year, the last major version of macOS is abandoned, incomplete and still full of bugs. Apple needs to reconsider, and complete the cycle by bringing them to marketable quality before moving on.

November 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Pont-Aven Artists’ Colony: a brief history – 1, before Gauguin

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For the latter half of the 19th century, Pont-Aven in Brittany was one of the leading centres for painting in France. Here’s its history, from Weber and Wylie to PS Krøyer and Julian Alden Weir.

November 4, 2017 General, Life, Painting

This is what happens when Sierra’s backups become irregular

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When Sierra’s automatic backups stop or become irregular, other functions fail too. Here are some important and more obvious ones. Is this fixed in High Sierra, and does it affect iPhones too?

November 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 54 – The making of myrrh

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A dark tale of a wicked nurse, incest, transformation, the origin of the precious resin myrrh, and obstetrics in the arboretum. And a possible very early Titian.

November 3, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

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