Gordon's Tech

I use Apple's Notes app fairly often. It's come a long way from early days but it has its share of bugs. The two I run into most oft...

 Recently I've had two issues: Mojave Universal Clipboard stopped working between Mojave and iOS 15.4.1 Mojave notes iCloud synced but a...

I've used Appigo's ToDo app for about 12 years (with Toodledo at first). It's had problems over the years, but in general it'...

iOS 12.1 Files.app will open Google Drive hosted ePub files directly in Books.app (formerly iBooks). I don’t know how new this is, but tappi...

I updated my iPad to iOS 12. Books gave me this notification: Changes you make to your library on this device sync only to devices running...

Even since iOS 11 editing in Appigo’s Todo Cloud.app has been buggy for me on iPad and iPhone alike. Just aggravating. Feels like they faile...

MarsEdit 4 added a new feature — the ability to sync all posts. It didn’t work for my Blogger posts, somewhere around post 3,000-4,000 Goog...

I had a longish holiday break this year, so naturally I spent part of it fighting with another technology regression .  This regression was...

Two years after  Simplenote.app for Mac was released with broken search  it is now fixed in version 1.2. A product I rely on is not only ali...

Apple removed playlists from iOS 11 podcasts.app. I loved playlists. They were a beautiful user friendly query building tool. Instead we ha...

Nine years ago I wrote  What my blogs are for: memory management and the Google-Gordon geek-mind fusion . It’s hard to believe now, but in t...

My daughter uses Photos.app and a 50 GB iCloud Photo Library to manage her videos and images [1]. She edits on an older Air with a small SSD...

Apple has broken me. I’ve left iCloud Photo Stream shares for Google Photos. First I lost the ability to share from Aperture to Facebook. I...

Something went wrong. It always does. I had thousands of images distributed across over 60 shared photo streams. One day I rebuilt Aperture...

I last wrote about migrating contacts from Outlook/Exchange server to OS X in 2011 . Back then one of the issues with migration then was th...

Back in 2010 I wrote  Gordon’s Tech: Escape from Outlook Notes - ResophNotes, Simplenote for iPhone and Notational Velocity . Seven years l...

Apple has a support doc on backing up iCloud data with a less than ideal recommendation for macOS Notes.app backup … Archive or make copie...

WARNING: There are at least two issues with this workflow. 1. Not all images that appear in iOS UI for “All Photos” are actually available ...

Another reason why we can’t have nice things. My son's iPhone had access to some of our cloud media (TV) library, but not all of it. Th...

Synology Cloud Station aka Cloud Station Drive stopped working reliably for me in El Capitan. That’s when I discovered there’s no uninstall...