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
Last Week on My Mac: Making better use of security extended attributes https://t.co/AxehVaWYjK via @howardnoakley
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In a typical ~/Documents folder, 14% of all files have a provenance xattr attached to them, that could enable the app that last modified them to be identified. Could we make use of that?
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More than a Nabi 2: Félix Vallotton 1900-1906 https://t.co/vwP9tSZdcg via @howardnoakley
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More mysterious interiors and cupboard views, a group portrait of the Nabis, and two of his models taking a break.
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Quarantine, MACL and provenance: what are they up to? https://t.co/L4RSmFpeM0 via @howardnoakley
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Why do so many files now have quarantine and other extended attributes, although they’re not apps, and may never have left that Mac?
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The Dutch Golden Age: Jan Miense Molenaer https://t.co/8ypiu45DQ4 via @howardnoakley
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A dentist draws a tooth outside a church, a man reckons he holds the winning card, and the five most humorous interpretations of the senses.
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Medium and Message: On a cigar-box https://t.co/LuDARVBhxF via @howardnoakley
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The Macchiaioli of Tuscany, James Whistler, Georges Seurat and the Australian Impressionists all like to sketch in oil on cigar boxes.
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How to restart Spotlight, and why you might want to https://t.co/zbgwbecBqU via @howardnoakley
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Instead of logging out and back in, it’s possible to relaunch Spotlight from the Finder, as demonstrated here with the aid of the log. And it might be useful too.
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I'm going to wrap this up by asking you give a read to @khronokernel's wonderful OCLP retrospective article. You can learn more about the history of OCLP in one last blogpost before he was hired by Apple. https://t.co/PvQqyy2r9a
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Seeing that this year will be OpenCore Legacy Patcher’s 5th anniversary and that there’s some bitter-sweet news to share (more at the end), I thought it’d be a good time to reflect on my time with...
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Painted stories of the Decameron: A father's revenge https://t.co/2ONkuoDgDI via @howardnoakley
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A gruesome tale of a daughter’s lover killed by her father, and his heart cut out. Also of one of Hogarth’s few failed paintings.
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Textovert 1.1 can now convert PDF files to other formats https://t.co/5T4RcUhDc9 via @howardnoakley
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Now additionally offers conversion of PDF files to plain text, RTF, HTML, Word doc and docx, Safari Web Archive and other formats.
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