Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Salvaging the wreck of iOS Podcasts.app

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iOS 11 Podcasts.app isn’t as broken as i Tunes mediated iPad photo transfer  or the US government, but it’s not far behind. The current vers...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

iTunes Mac to iPad photo sync is broken

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I had a longish holiday break this year, so naturally I spent part of it fighting with another technology regression .  This regression was...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

How to maybe stop Sierra from preferentially auto-connecting to XFINITY WiFi.

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My Mac insists on connecting to my neighbors Comcast/XFINITY WiFi rather than my home wifi. The  usual recommendations  didn’t work. (Note, ...

Can't remove last "App" from the App Bar in iOS 11.2.1 iMessage.app? Turn screen to landscape mode.

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On my iPhone 8 with iOS 11.2.1 I was unable to toggle off the last App (YouTube by alpha sort) in my plug-in list ( what I mean ). I turned ...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

My Instagram account was hacked -- the follow-up is interesting

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I signed up for Instagram before Facebook bought them. Back then it was a curiosity of low value and I used my throwaway password. That’s th...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Overcast.app: the upload feature in premium is not very useful

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I like to listen to medical and historical podcasts on my commutes. I have years of material in iTunes and limited listening time, I don’t n...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Simplenote for Mac search has been fixed

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Two years after  Simplenote.app for Mac was released with broken search  it is now fixed in version 1.2. A product I rely on is not only ali...