Saturday, November 24, 2018

Did you follow Apple's two-factor authentication advice to provide a friend's phone number for SMS authentication?

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I bet you didn’t do this  [emphases mine]: …You should also consider verifying an additional phone number you can access, such as a home p...
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Remember to remove a device from your Apple ID account list if it is sold or wiped

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Apple associates devices with your Apple ID. If you are using two factor authentication they get authentication requests. If you wipe or sel...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

Printer configuration is a still a pain (AirPrint edition)

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I replaced an old Brother HL-L6200DW with a new Brother HL-L6200DW. Isn’t stasis wonderful? Scanners and printers don’t change much any more...
Monday, November 12, 2018

An almost useful Siri Shortcut: "Voice memo record"

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Apple forgot to add a Siri command that would launch Voice Memo.app and start recording. You can launch it with Siri, but it won’t start re...

How to find the folder that holds an iOS app in iOS 11 and 12

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This is so friggin obscure now. I had to read this Apple Discussions thread a few times . The problem is there are two types of Spotlight se...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

Cisco Receiver client for Mac no longer works with Safari (NPAPI plug-ins are no longer supported by Safari)

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Safari 12 “ Removed support for running legacy NPAPI plug-ins other than Adobe Flash ” [1]. Despite years of warning Cisco wasn’t quite read...
Saturday, November 03, 2018

iOS 12.1 Files.app will open Google Drive hosted ePub directly in Books.app

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iOS 12.1 Files.app will open Google Drive hosted ePub files directly in Books.app (formerly iBooks). I don’t know how new this is, but tappi...