Sunday, September 25, 2016

Facebook: what to do when you receive a Friend request from someone who is already a friend (impersonation scam).

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There are a lot of scams on Facebook. Heck, at one time their revenue came largely from shady games and the covert sale of personal informat...
Friday, September 23, 2016

What Scrivener does poorly (or not at all)

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There’s a lot I like about Scrivener , a writer’s integrated development environment with compilation to platform specific documents. I’m no...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Set Reminders.app alert sound to Constellation and you can't miss them.

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I had one job. I had to put my daughter’s laundry in the dryer. Since I know I’m demented I set a Reminder. Which I never saw because I didn...
Monday, September 05, 2016

Tweak to my Photos.app, Aperture workflow.

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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 ...
Sunday, September 04, 2016

Apple's peculiar relationship to RSS (and blogs)

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Apple “Newsroom” smells like a blog, but there’s no RSS feed. I assume it uses Apple’s RSS variant and works with Apple’s News.app , but i...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

OS X and iOS wifi defect with iCloud keychain sharing: rejoining zombie networks.

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With iCloud keychain sharing enabled both iOS and OS X seem unable to truly “forget” networks I’ve joined. I remove them using the WiFi menu...
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...