Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Using IFTTT Webhook to post RSS feed data to Mastodon

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Eleven years ago I wrote about using the IFTTT service to create tweets from the RSS feed of my Pinboard shares (which are written for my...
Monday, January 09, 2023

Switching from Comcast to Century Link - including how to return Xfinity equipment

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Seven years ago we switched from CenturyLink to Comcast/Xfinity . At the time I thought CenturyLink was kaput. Today we switched back; I'...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

Family Sharing: all charges go to Family Organizer - UNLESS there's an Apple Account balance

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One of the drawbacks of Family Sharing is all charges go to the Family Organizer. Even if a family member has a payment method stored in the...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Apple Numbers appears to display a + instead of a / or ÷ for the division formula

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I'm on Mojave for a while (Aperture) so I get to use an old version of Apple's spreadsheet - Numbers 10.1 (6913). It think this is s...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Migrating from an Apple Store/iTunes shared media Apple ID to a standard Apple ID configuration

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I'm putting this up as a peacekeeper. I hope one day I'll fill it in better, but if you are trying to migrate from a shared Apple ID...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

AppleScripts to speed Java compile and execute with BBEdit

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Students are often asked not to use an IDE (I like Visual Studio Java) for their Java projects. Instead they need to use BBEdit without an I...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Apple Music subscriptions stop working when I changed my Media & Purchases Apple ID

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Apple digital rights management (DRM, FairPlay in this case) is very complex, particularly when one adds Family Sharing or has an atypical A...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Expelling demons from 2020 Air: when Disk Utility says to run against the Container (and more)

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If you have to maintain a modern Mac, it helps to be retired. How else would I have hours to spend one Friday pm? The 2020 Air I inherited f...

Monterey T2 bug - First Aid, unlocking disk, operation canceled - Do an SMC reset

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When I tried to run Disk Utility on my 2020 Intel Air running Monterey I got:      Running First Aid on ..      Unlocking Disk     Operation...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Managing multiple Apple Store Apple IDs in Monterey: how to sign out and thus change default Apple ID for app update and purchase

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There's a lot of complexity in Apple's software, but my nomination for the ultimate complexity is the web of undocumented and slowly...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Monterey orphaned our physical podcast files. What can we do with them?

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Podcasts started out as distributing MP3 files; back then iTunes was a great podcast app (and music and audiobooks, and voice memos and more...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

Using Apple's USB-C to T2 adapter: not for video but still good

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My 2015 MacBook Air uses Thunderbolt 2; it was connected to an elgato T2 hub (reliable for over 6 years) with a few USB and Firewire 800 per...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Migration Assistant from Mojave to Monterey is mostly a train wreck

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Ugh. Almost nothing went well with doing migration assistant from Mojave to Monterey. I had to trash my Photo Library and recreate a new sys...

Can't empty trash because VoiceTrigger is in use: It's a macOS system integrity bug

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If you delete a user account in some versions of macOS (Monterey in my case) where the user account was created in certain earlier versions ...
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Friday, July 29, 2022

Wi-Fi Calling not working? Your probably SIM-swapped and your IMEI is wrong and you don't have HD Voice

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When Emily complained of poor call quality I tried enabling Wi-Fi calling on her 13mini -- and got this error message: Oops!  We've hit ...