Gordon's Tech
Tech tips and notes with a bit of commentary. macOS and iOS mostly.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
iCloud calendar invitations have been broken since 2011 and nobody has noticed
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I’m not sure what’s more amazing — that this has been broken for five years, or that someone once thought this was a clever idea, or that al...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Quicken for Mac 2015 is not a bad application
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I was once an enthusiastic user of Quicken for DOS — despite an annoying tendency to database corruption. Each month I’d receive a 3.5” disk...
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Recovering selected OS X Mail.app messages from a carbon copy cloner backup
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Somehow I’d enabled my iCloud Mail account in Yosemite Mail.app. This is irksome, because I don’t use it and, sooner or later, I’d somehow s...
Saturday, January 16, 2016
iOS 9 Spotlight fail fixed by killing background Reeder.app
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iOS 9.2 Spotlight has been driving me crazy on my iPhone 6. I use search to start many of my apps, and at least half the time nothing would ...
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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