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The Faerie Queene 23: The healing hermit, and Turpine corrected
In the last episode, Calepine’s lady, Serena, had been badly wounded by the Blatant Beast. While Sir Calidor rode off in its pursuit, Calepine sought aid in Sir Turpine’s castle, but was refused and...
View ArticleSpotlight on search: How Spotlight works
Spotlight – the macOS subsystem which supports search of both metadata and content – goes right back to Classic Mac OS days, in a feature which started off finding files in the Finder. It then became...
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Painting within Tent: Icefast on the coast of Greenland
There hasn’t been another expedition like it, sponsored in full by a banker who wanted to add unusual paintings to his art collection. But in 1869, LeGrand Lockwood, a railroad and banking magnate in...
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Spotlight on search: Search and you might be lucky
In the previous article, I explained how Spotlight builds and maintains its indexes of the files on volumes. What I didn’t examine was exactly what goes into those indexes, nor how to search them. The...
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Léon Bakst, artist to the Ballets Russes
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many talented and successful artists painted and designed for theatres, operas and ballets, which flourished across Europe and North America. Among...
View ArticleWhy your laptop Mac may not be recharging
It’s a long time since laptop Mac models recharged in simple ways: when the battery was lower than 100%, plugging in the mains power adaptor resulted in them recharging to 100%. Yet in our mental model...
View ArticleSaturday Mac riddles 84
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Tooth, glue, insert a copy. 2: Reconstruct a building or painting, to return what you had before. 3: US...
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Paintings in a Country Churchyard 1
In the more rural parts of Europe, at least until well into the twentieth century, the village church and its churchyard were the centre of the community. This weekend I look at what went on in those...
View ArticleLast Week on My Mac: Finding not hiding
I’m no interior designer, and have a lifelong hatred for open-plan offices anyway, but there’s one feature that I’m sure Apple’s headquarters still needs: at each level, at least one working Mac from...
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Paintings in a Country Churchyard 2
In the first of these two articles featuring paintings of country churchyards, I showed examples of their roles in everyday life, as used by William Hogarth, through their use in Romantic horror, to...
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