The Eclectic Light Company
Finds
- Edward Wilson, the doctor who painted Antarctica An essay on the physician, ornithologist and watercolourist of Scott's two expeditions
- Ludwig Becker, the artist who died crossing Australia An essay on the German-born naturalist and painter of the Burke and Wills expedition
- Thomas Fearnley, the brief Wanderer An essay on the tiny back-turned figures in a Norwegian Romantic's landscapes
- Painting with impaired vision A new series asks whether Degas, Pissarro and Monet painted what their eyes let them see
- Painting a Good Story: Multi-frame Comic-book layouts in paint, from a 1263 saint swallowed by a dragon to Bosch
- Portraits of Trees: Birch From Fearnley's Sognefjord to Klimt's flattened forest to Astrup's moonlit farms
- Portraits of Trees: Pine From Altdorfer's Scots pines to Signac's Bonaventure Pine to Cézanne's red earth
- Helen Allingham The first woman elected to full membership of the Royal Watercolour Society
- Portraits of Trees: Willow From Sisley's pollarded willows to Ophelia's branch to Monet's last weeping willow
- Heracles and Omphale, in Paint The strongest man in myth, in a dress, spinning wool — from a Roman mosaic to Goya
- Painting la Manche: le Havre to Ouessant Monet's home port, Millet's trick of scale, and an island of a thousand souls
- Painting la Manche: Calais to Étretat The French Channel coast in a dozen paintings, from Turner's rough crossing to Monet's storm
- Monet's Poplars Trees painted as the landscape itself, not scenery within it
- Heracles' Labours 4 Through 8, in Paint A king hides in a bronze jar rather than face a live boar
- Paintings of Caves: Myth and Religion Why painters kept sending saints and heroes underground
- 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