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 ...
Wednesday, July 03, 2019

I really like my SharePoint list based blog that's not a SharePoint blog

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I don’t think anyone is terribly interested in this, so I’m not going to provide a lot of detail, but if you want to know more just email jg...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Chrome: Default pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia quit unexpectedly

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For years I’ve launched gmail and gcalendar on my Mac using apps in my user/application folder I’d named gCal.app and gMail.app. I loved the...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Getting Emily's iCloud photos -- you can multi-select in Photos.web (again)

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As recently as 2018, Apple had stopped supporting multi-select in iCloud Photos.web . It was really annoying. Today it works. I don’t know ...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Screen Time old device bug: Dev used device ID as key, forgot Apple ID

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There’s a well known old-device bug with Screen Time. Once you’ve setup up Screen Time for a child’s device it will always show up under the...

Two new discoveries in iOS Screen Time (parental controls): Age 13 and Apple ID incompatible with Screen Time

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A reputable Twitter source recently wrote that “Screen Time” was "a rush job". It feels that way. As part of a book project I’ve ...