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More than a Nabi 1: Félix Vallotton 1885-99
Eclectic and mysterious paintings first in academic style, then Naturalist, a few years as the 'foreign Nabi' before painting unusual landscapes.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Explainer: Text formats
All about plain text, rich text, RTFD, .doc, .docx, HTML, webarchive, WordML, ODT and Pages formats, and how much space they take.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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The Dutch Golden Age: Aelbert Cuyp 2
More rich and lucent skies light cavalry troopers, migrating peasants, the baptism of an Ethiopian eunuch, and a river scene. Then he suddenly stopped painting.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Podofyllin 1.5 beta can export PDF to RTF
Test version can now export PDF to Rich Text Format. For evaluation, please, to see if this would be worth adding to Textovert.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The Dutch Golden Age: Aelbert Cuyp 1
Trained as a landscape painter, he used his landscapes for genre scenes, animal and human portraits, even myths and a religious work, and was influenced by Claude Lorrain.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Inside the Unified Log 8: Find the error
Log entries mentioning errors are common and can mislead. Those marking the consequences of errors may not mention the word error. Turn detective to work out where the error really is with these tips.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Medium and Message: En plein air
How painting in oils in front of the motif became popular fifty years before paint became available in tubes, and how it was done by the experts.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Textovert 1.0: a convenient wrapper for text conversion
Drag and drop files you want to convert to a different format, and Textovert will call textutil to do that for you. Quick, simple and convenient.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Painted stories of the Decameron: Nastagio degli Onesti’s breakfast
A bizarre story of a ghost who repeatedly kills the ghost of the woman who spurned his love, and how it leads to a successful marriage. Illustrated by Botticelli.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 335
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 335. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Xeon […]
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Convert text between file formats, including webarchives
Convert between text, HTML, RTF, RTFD, Word .doc and .docx, WordML, ODT and Safari Web Archives using this command tool.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Painting along the Loing: Moret
A few miles down river from Grez was the town of Moret, where Sisley lived and painted for 19 years, in poverty and isolation. Here are some examples of his Impressionist landscapes from there.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Last Week on My Mac: The mystery of Safari’s Web Archives
When someone reports the most recent version of Safari that will open their webarchives is 18.6, and that's the only version that you find can't open some webarchives. You'll be only too familiar with the culprit.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Painting along the Loing: Grez
By 1880, an artist's colony was forming in this village on the southern edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, and attracted painters from all over the world.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Saturday Mac riddles 335
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Xeon and […]
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November 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Explainer: Data and metadata
Information about the data in a file can be found in different places: in the file's attributes, in extended attributes that tend to be Mac-only, and embedded with the data, as in EXIF.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Reading Visual Art: 236 Carpenter
In a myth invented by Piero, a radical annunciation, Pre-Raphaelite religious paintings, William Blake and others who allude to Joseph, the most famous of all.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Does Preview write PDF/A?
Preview offers PDF/A as an export option, intended for PDFs that are to be relied on long into the future, for archives. Do they comply with one of the PDF/A standards, though?
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November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The 400th anniversary of the birth of Paulus Potter
One of the founding fathers of animal painting, his Young Bull is almost life-sized and ranked alongside Rembrandt's work, but he died at the age of only 28.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Diagnose Spotlight local search problems
When Spotlight can't find the files you expect it to, it could be that they weren't indexed, or that Spotlight's search has failed to find their index entries. Here's how to tell those apart and work out what went wrong.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The Dutch Golden Age: Winter
A period in which the winters were exceptionally cold, landscapes showing folk skating on frozen canals and rivers, promenading, and playing kolf, and ancestor of modern golf.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Viewing metadata in the Finder
The Preview pane in Finder windows can show a comprehensive list of metadata, or a shortened list you can customise in Preview Options. Here's how to use it and how it can provide further information.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Medium and Message: Glazes and optical effects
Applying thinner layers of paint, or glazes, developed optical effects that were widely used into the late 19th century, but have now fallen from favour.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Which local file systems does macOS 26 support?
A survey of support for APFS, HFS+, FAT and ExFAT, NTFS, ZFS, Linux file systems, and MacFUSE with its potential for file systems running in user-space.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Painted stories of the Decameron: Introduction
Written by Giovanni Boccaccio by 1352 and revised in 1370-71, it consists of a hundred stories told by 7 women and 3 men who fled Florence during the Black Death. Some of those tales have been extensively painted.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM