Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Modern bugs: server, client, and DRM. Also transient.

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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...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Beware: iPhones with mixed FairPlay app ownership may no longer backup/restore as expected

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Ran into this with a friend’s devices. He was syncing his and his wife’s iPhones to iTunes under Lion. Not sure how old iTunes library was. ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

OS X Version support - doesn't use a lot of storage (for me)

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A warning that my network share doesn’t support versions reminded me that OS X added version support in Lion (in addition to Time Machine ba...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Uninstalling Synology Cloud Station Mac -- and why you would never have installed it in the first place.

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Synology Cloud Station aka Cloud Station Drive stopped working reliably for me in El Capitan. That’s when I discovered there’s no uninstall...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Stop Strava.app bike tracking app from auto-sharing all rides to Facebook

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I think this is new. It’s certainly causing lots of confusion. All of my Strava rides were getting auto-posted to Facebook. This was unwant...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

SMS messaging to small groups: Apple's App Store comes up empty. Again.

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It may require federal legislation, but someday text messaging services will interoperate. Today, however, we have cruddy old SMS, held in ...
Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Simplenote is not dead -- and the joy of nvAlt backup

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Simplenote.app, an Automattic product I use a zillion times a day, is less dead than I thought. They just released a version for Android, I ...