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The App Store by numbers, and Wikipedia wherever you want

How to get the better of the App Store, and how you can take reference material even where you can’t get a good internet connect – for free.

August 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Libraries have not been replaced by the internet

Online and print publications and other sources of information are usually complementary. The internet enriches, it does not replace.

April 29, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Wikipedia: happy birthday!

Thank you, Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, and the many who have given their time and effort to this Wonder of the Web.

January 15, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

The making of “From silk to canvas”

When writing for this blog is far tougher than performing a tracheotomy.

August 17, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Primum non nocere

For my money, at the moment, Objective-See’s free products are targeted at the real threats, and don’t screw OS X up or around.

June 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Knowledge to rely on?

On 18 January 2012, (English) Wikipedia shut us out in protest at proposed US legislation. I was deeply upset, and wrote this in response.

June 14, 2015 Macs, Technology

Shipwrecked art history: Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa

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Géricault’s painstaking research resulted in a painting which is not true to any moment in time, so it is ironic that publications about the painting and its production appear not to be true to the painting itself.

June 5, 2015 General, Painting

A Fair Copse

Will an efficient market weed out unreliable content, or are we doomed to wholesale inaccuracy?

May 13, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

A peevishness beyond

We all have our peeves about language. But Andrew McMillen’s fascinating article about those who contribute to Wikipedia […]

February 4, 2015 Language, Life, Technology
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