Sunday, June 28, 2020

Carbon Copy Cloner was quietly excluding 1Password stores from backup (Corrected: app, not data stores)

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This morning's heart attack: " CCC no longer excludes 1Password by default ." What the fork were they thinking ?! ----------- ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Python macOS environments for learners in 2020

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My daughter is auditing Coursera's Intro to Python class . It's pretty standard stuff, but I was surprised by the development enviro...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Facebook still has RSS (iCal) feed for Calendar Events but it is insanely obscure

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I thought Facebook had removed the link we used to have to see the feed URL for a Facebook "calendar". (A Facebook calendar is the...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Canon's dSLR lens -- upgrade program for out of service lenses

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The Canon EF 28-135 lens I bought in 2006 (!) for $420 died recently. The autofocus stopped working. I can't complain too much -- I go...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

My advice for managing online credentials

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I wrote this up for a book project on special needs iPhone users (Explorers), but it's also my recommendation for non-geek iPhone users....
Saturday, January 04, 2020

Apple's Family: The many surprises of creating an Apple ID with age 13 or under

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(You can skip the rant to get to the tech details) <rant>I frequently berate Apple for the radioactive-feces-infested-dumpster-fire t...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Share Sheet crash in iOS 13.3 - try removing apps that have associated share sheet actions

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I upgraded from iOS 12 to 13.3. Most things worked (Parental Controls/Screen Time may be more broken, but it’s always broken), but I had one...
Sunday, December 01, 2019

How to create a file system reference to an iCloud Note

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My daughter wanted us to use a shared Apple Note for trip planning. That's fine, but I wanted a way to reference it from the macOS folde...

Unable to use MarsEdit with Blogger - Google web OAUTH failure with DHCP mode on AirPort Extreme

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I'm now unable to use MarsEdit with Blogger on Mojave or High Sierra. When Google asks me to authenticate instead of getting the usual e...

Removing encryption from PDF on macOS with Chrome

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My son's employer has one of those obsolete and spectacularly awful SAP style web sites that distributes pay statements. The PDFs are ...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Aperture to Photos.app - preparation

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I despise Apple in general and Tim Cook in particular. I wasn’t always that way. In the 00s I was kind of fond of Apple.  That ended with th...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Black Diamond Spot User Guide (manual)

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I’m swearing off Wirecutter. Again. It’s not that their recommendations are awful, they’re just kind of inexpert. They don’t actually use t...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Best way to get Scrivener content into a blog post

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After various experiments the best way I’ve found to get Scrivener content into a MarsEdit blog post is to complete to HTML then copy/paste ...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Mountain bike dropper posts, a very quick review

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A public Facebook group featured the best review of dropper posts I’ve read , by TB R-A. Reposting here so it’s not lost... I’ve owned the...
Sunday, August 04, 2019

Bleeding Avid (SRAM) XX/XO 2012 hydraulic mountain bike brakes (scan of manual)

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I’ve now bled my front and rear 2012 Avid XX brakes. I did the front first and got an excellent result. I did back twice, the first time it ...