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In 1866, Charles Daubigny’s sketchy landscapes had earned him sufficient reputation that he was elected to the jury for the Paris Salon. He was there able to defend paintings submitted by Impressionists, including those of Pissarro, Renoir, and Cézanne. The following year he signed Bazille’s petition to hold a second Salon de Refusés, and in 1868 was able to persuade the jury...

I make no claim the idea came to me in the bath, nor that it arrived in a single moment of eureka, more a series of smaller realisations, but I have a new version of LogUI that is truly exciting. So much so that I have incremented its version number to 1.1, a...

The history of Impressionism has been written and rewritten many times, but one great landscape painter who is often omitted is Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878), whose landscapes were so admired by Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh. This weekend I show a small selection of his paintings that anticipated what was to come.

His father was also a landscape painter. Da...

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation.

1: Focussed lamp for alphabetical list to find files again.

2: Fix authorisations still offered in recovery, if you dare.

3: Working area rebuilt to restore icons.

To help you cross-check your solutions, or confuse you further, there’s a common factor...

It’s commonly claimed that macOS relies entirely on filename extensions to determine a file’s type, and that’s largely true, and easy to demonstrate. Duplicate a PDF document, and confirm that double-clicking it opens it in your default PDF editor. If you’ve got a current version of my free utility