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...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Sharing an iPad with "Family Sharing" and a unique "Family" Apple ID.

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Nobody expects Apple to bring Apple ID switching to iPadOS -- even though there's a version of it for managed devices . Technical and re...
Friday, June 07, 2024

No message sound for one iMessage correspondent? User message thread can be both silenced and not silenced.

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I thought I'd fixed Emily's messages not generating a tone or haptic notification as per my 4/29/2024 post below. Then the bug recur...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

The modest changes that would make macOS Photos.app a good app

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I've submitted all of these as feature requests to Apple. If you like them please submit too, because we got nothing else. For any phot...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Visual Studio Code Jupyter Python Extension line wrap in output cell - how to set notebook.output.wordWrap

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My Visual Studio Code (Mac) Jupyter extension (plug-in) output was not line wrapped. It was a single unreadable output string. I had to eith...
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Aperture will launch on an M2 Air running Ventura 13.6.3 and will browse an existing Aperture Library.

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This was a bit of a shock. Aperture won't run on Intel Monterey without an OS hack (Retroactive). I was cleaning up an M1 Air that had a...