Sunday, January 09, 2022

Converting from Aperture to Apple Photos: Personal results

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I've begun early experiments in converting from Aperture to Apple photos. I've not found any good user descriptions of the process. ...
Friday, January 07, 2022

How to remote (push) install a xbox store purchase to xbox from Mac

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I couldn't find out how to push an xbox game install to the console with Google searches. Here's what I learned on my own. Go to xbo...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Family sharing screen time bug: a fix for ghost apps

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I'm happy to say I actually fixed a bug in the buggiest apple product ever - family sharing screen time. The "always allowed" ...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Apple Mac App Store: "Unable to download item. Please try again later": The problem may be that you are not the purchaser.

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I was logged into my admin account on my daughter's Big Sur Air and saw the usual nag to update Apps. When I tried though I got  "U...
Friday, November 19, 2021

How to mitigate SMS spam in iOS 15: filter unknown AND disable notifications for unknown senders

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I do not understand why it took Apple so long to do basic management of text message (SMS) spam. I don't understand why the solution app...
Saturday, November 06, 2021

Using Apple Locator devices (AirTags) with an older iPhone

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AirTags will work with older iPhones but things are a little different.  The trick is that they work by Bluetooth with a range of about 20 t...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Safari on US Bank: "our system is not cooperating"

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For the last few days when my wife entered https://onlinebanking.usbank.com into M1 Big Sur 10.4.2 and 10.5.1 Safari she immediately receive...

Unable to print from Chrome on macOS Mojave - use Cmd-Opt-P to print using system dialog

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Over the the past year Google made several changes to macOS Chrome printing including hiding the "print using system dialog" optio...
Saturday, August 07, 2021

Calendars 5 for iOS: how to use Apple Contacts to complete attendee list

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Calendars 5 for iOS makes Google Calendar useable -- at a fraction of the cost of Fantastical. It reminds me of PalmOS DateBk 5 and 6 . For...

MindNode for iOS: how to fold a node

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I like MindNode (mind mapping tool) for iOS but the UI can be opaque. I couldn't figure out how to easily collapse a tree branch ("...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Getting photos from iPhone (iCloud) Photos.app to Lightroom, Aperture and other non-Photos products

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(Original 1/31/2021, updated 7/25/2021) Apple's approach to photography is to keep everything in iCloud and to view or edit the images f...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Unable to update date of birth associated with an Apple ID: "... could not be changed because of a server error"

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You can't change the date of birth or family relationship of an Apple ID with a calculated age of less than 13 years old. Otherwise it&#...
Monday, July 05, 2021

Apple Card for Families: non-owners have a $250/transaction limit but no cap on total spend

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Turns out when you enable Apple Card for a non-owner family member they have a max transaction limit of $250 but no total cap (can spend to ...

Disk Utility First Aid problem in Mojave: Working around the Disk Locked bug

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If you've used Disk Utility in Mojave APFS you know it's become much more complex than HPFS days. Recently I tried running it from t...

Apple ID problem: sharing iTunes Apple ID in two factor world means authentication requests go to one of many possible devices

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In the old days, before family sharing, families shared purchases by sharing an iTunes Apple ID while using their own Apple ID for me.com se...