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Last summer, artists across Europe were shocked at a proposal to ban the sale of artists’ paints containing […]
Q I have some important old documents which were created using Microsoft Word before 2002; most are from […]
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When MP3 and other forms of lossy audio compression were starting to become popular 15 years ago, I […]
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Wednesday, things started to go downhill.* It should have been straightforward: take my Dad (86 and fiercely independent) […]
Q I rearranged the room in which my iMac and Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID R4 live. Before doing anything, […]
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