Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co
@howardnoakley
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Chief illuminator at the Eclectic Light Company, writing about macOS, paintings; author of over 40 free utilities for macOS.
Isle of Wight, UK
Joined January 2015
Medium and Message: Watercolour on paper via @howardnoakley.
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Huge paintings using opaque watercolour paint, layered combinations of transparent and opaque, scratching out, wax resist and even grains of salt.
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How do Live Text and Visual Look Up work now? via @howardnoakley.
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How images have text recognised within them as Live Text, and objects of interest are classified, using VisionKit, mediaanalysisd, Espresso, the ANE and more.
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Generate videos in just a few seconds. Try Grok Imagine, free for a limited time.
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Paintings of Dante's Inferno: 3 In Limbo via @howardnoakley.
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Dante and Virgil enter the first circle of Hell, Limbo, where those who never sinned but weren’t baptised in the Christian faith are confined.
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Inside XProtect Remediator, and how it could save us from disaster via @howardnoakley.
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Six years ago, the old MRT saved millions of Macs from coming under attack. XPR could one day do the same. A new deep dive into its function has just been presented at Black Hat. Also updates on st…
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Painting the summer storm 2 via @howardnoakley.
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Summer storms from Constant Troyon, Albert Bierstadt, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Pierre Bonnard and others.
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Painting the summer storm 1 via @howardnoakley.
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Paintings of summer storms from the dawn of landscape art and Giorgione, through Poussin and Vernet, to Palmer and Constable.
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Reading Visual Art: 221 Club and skin B via @howardnoakley.
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While other uncouth figures fought with their clubs, animal skins appealed to a different group, as John Godward’s beauties draped their bodies on them.
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macOS Sequoia end of cycle report via @howardnoakley.
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How frequent and large were macOS Sequoia’s updates? How has it grown in total system bundles and apps? Which categories have grown most?
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RT @yiningkarlli: GPT5 is like having a team of PhDs in your pocket. Bar graph from GPT5 team of PhDs announcement video: . 🤔 https://t….
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Reading Visual Art: 220 Club and skin A via @howardnoakley.
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That well-muscled man brandishing a large olive-wood club and wearing a lion-skin can only be the ultimate high-testosterone uncouth hero, Hercules.
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What does RunningBoard do? 5 Log insights via @howardnoakley.
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How to discover which apps were launched, which appexes were run, and life cycle events for executable bundles, and map waypoints and events in the log.
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Is your Mac's firmware up to date? via @howardnoakley.
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Gives the latest firmware versions for all Macs running the most recent supported version of macOS, and which are expected to change in the future.
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Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator via @howardnoakley.
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Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5309, and to XProtect Remediator for all macOS from Catalina onwards, to version 153. As usua…
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RT @MikeMcQuaid: 🍺 Homebrew 4.6.0 is out! . Opt-in concurrent downloads (`HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY`), early macOS 26 (Tahoe) support,….
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Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 4.6.0. The most significant changes since 4.5.0 are opt-in concurrent downloads with HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY, preliminary macOS 26 (Tahoe) support and a...
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