The Eclectic Light Company
Finds
- The cost of the blue from over the sea Why van Gogh could afford to stir ultramarine into his greens
- An Unnatural History of Footwear in Paintings From Mercury's winged sandals to van Gogh's battered pair
- Cirrus Stop guessing whether iCloud Drive is stuck
- DeltaFree Answers the actual question: how many weeks of backup space are left
- Identify files in APFS using inode numbers Disk Utility tells you a file is broken without telling you which file
- Brushstrokes: Divisionism Seurat's argument that the eye should mix the paint, not the palette
- Portraits of Trees: Chestnuts Two different trees, one English name, a century of paintings
- SpotTest 1.3 Finds out why Spotlight quietly refuses to index a file
- SpotTest A drag-and-drop diagnostic for why Spotlight can't find a file
- Revisionist See every hidden version macOS quietly saved
- Mints Free Mac utility that surfaces QuickLook generators and diagnostics
- SilentKnight 3 Free Mac security checker now exports results as text and JSON
- Fixing Generic QuickLook Thumbnails on macOS Systematic guide to fixing blank icons after a macOS upgrade
- UTIutility Free Mac app for exploring Uniform Type Identifier hierarchies
- Protect files with the Immutable flag on macOS When Finder's Lock isn't enough
- Versatility Preserve macOS file versions across iCloud and create versioned PDFs
- Roll back to a macOS snapshot without Time Machine tmutil snapshot before risky changes; Recovery + Time Machine to roll back
- Check what Spotlight actually indexed with mdimport and mdls When Spotlight ignores a file, ask the importer directly
- Finder Tags as Categories Use Finder's seven colors as exactly seven categories — no more