Thursday, May 08, 2025

Word Services in macOS Sequoia: reenabling after migration

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When I migrated from Mojave to Sequoia (with a pause at Monterey I think) I lost the word services I liked. Today I finally investigated and...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Managing the incredibly annoying Apple Wallet notifications on Sequoia

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I loathe Apple's notifications center on macOS. The notifications constantly get in the way of my work, and the most unstoppable ones ar...
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...