Wednesday, December 30, 2015

A Google Doc I wrote in 2010 has lost its images

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Every 1-3 years I write a “solstice letter”. Since 2010 or so I’ve used Google Docs; it’s the best match to sharing it via PDF and web.  To...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Emergent phishing attacks

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This one amused me. I have an email address in one of my domains that redirects to an immutable long-random-username address assigned by Ap...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

The Apple Way or the Google Way: A rough draft for comment

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I’m writing a book on supporting special needs teens and adult independent living with a smartphone . I’m covering both iOS and Android in t...
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How Apple's Music.app broke shuffle in iOS 9.2 (and how to unshuffle your classical music album)

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With Music.app in OS 9.x Apple effectively made “shuffle” the default way to play an album or playlist. That’s not necessarily bad, but wher...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Calendar sharing between Google and iCloud is very confusing: webcal vs http vs. https

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A book project  forced me to dig into a perennially painful topic — Calendar sharing and subscription in iOS and OS X (MacOS Yosemite) for G...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

iTunes audiobooks: something actually worked

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I’ve had such poor experiences with recent iTunes and iOS audiobook support my expectations are pretty bleak. So imagine the shock when some...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

iCloud, iMessage and Keychain issues - obsolete Apple docs and a fix.

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I sent a text to #3 and she didn’t get it. When I dug in a bit I discovered her iMessage was working, but it was only using her phone number...