Thursday, March 13, 2025

RIP Simplenote -- data freedom and the painless plaintext migration to Notes

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[UPDATE: Simplenote tech support is working on a fix for the bug that manifested with 15.3.1. I have migrated for several reasons so I will ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Creating a macOS Spotlight indexed archive of completed tasks and notes: Microsoft To Do via Outlook.com PDF

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I like having local Spotlight indexed "standard" file format archives of completed tasks and calendar items. This is not a popular...
Saturday, January 04, 2025

Migrating my microblog publishing from Pinboard to Raindrop.io

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For the past 12 years, following the demise of Google Reader Social, I have used Pinboard  ( see also ) as a core part of my obscure microbl...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Wallet and payment problems with Sequoia: email address in "Wallet & Apple Pay" settings grayed out and cannot be changed

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Today I ran into several very weird issues with Apple Pay and Sequoia. It began when I tried to use Apple Pay from Sequoia. I got a message ...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Copying a calculated cell from Numbers into Pages - two workarounds and Apple's Copy Snapshot answer

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You can't copy a Numbers calculated cell, like one formed by concatenating strings in other cells, into Pages. The formula is pasted ins...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Stop the stupid: Disabling Microsoft AutoUpdate on macOS as of Nov 2024

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Microsoft AutoUpdate is painfully stupid. It makes my teeth hurt stupid. No matter what setting I use, even after I tell it to "just up...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

End of software support for the Fujitsu (Ricoh, PFU) ix500 document scanner

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Many years ago I bought a (then) Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 document scanner. The hardware has been superb but the MacOS desktop software was al...