Saturday, February 27, 2016

Bug: iOS Message.app treats redirected me.com and icloud.com synonyms as different conversations

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It took me ages to figure out what was going wrong. My iMessage conversations with the kids were split into two threads, even though Contac...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Facebook won't use iPhone settings account? A fix.

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After a Facebook password change, especially if it forces logout from other devices, you may find that Facebook.app on iOS no longer reads a...
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...