Showing posts with label macOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label macOS. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

macOS Photos: Optimized Storage version and External Drive Full Resolution version of same library

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If your full resolution iPhotos Library won't fit on your internal drive any more you can switch to optimized storage. Even for a large ...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Vibe coding a python script to create a plain text file with my macOS Photos (Aperture) folder hierarchy

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My single greatest Photos.app frustration (I have many) is the inability to search the folder hierarchy. Mine contains hundreds semantically...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Tip: Let your ai tell you what's new and novel in an iOS or macOS release

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I like to wait a month (iOS) or six months (macOS) before applying major updates. By the time I apply them all the useful tips and tricks I ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

New lessons on macOS network home backup: WiFi issues and so many bugs

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Recently we had a flurry of home computing issues. They feel typical of our time where multiple bugs interact across multiple environments. ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Create a macOS desktop shortcut (.inetloc) that deep links to a specific note in Notes.app

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Writing this up quickly, I might get back to it later. I want to have a shortcut to a specific macOS Notes.app note that I can put in a fold...
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...
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...
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...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

AppleScript to very slowly list the albums a macOS Photos.app image is associated with

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macOS Photos.app does not give users a way to identify which albums contain a selected photo. I found a relatively current AppleScript that ...