Sunday, July 25, 2021

Getting photos from iPhone (iCloud) Photos.app to Lightroom, Aperture and other non-Photos products

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(Original 1/31/2021, updated 7/25/2021) Apple's approach to photography is to keep everything in iCloud and to view or edit the images f...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Unable to update date of birth associated with an Apple ID: "... could not be changed because of a server error"

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You can't change the date of birth or family relationship of an Apple ID with a calculated age of less than 13 years old. Otherwise it&#...
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Monday, July 05, 2021

Apple Card for Families: non-owners have a $250/transaction limit but no cap on total spend

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Turns out when you enable Apple Card for a non-owner family member they have a max transaction limit of $250 but no total cap (can spend to ...

Disk Utility First Aid problem in Mojave: Working around the Disk Locked bug

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If you've used Disk Utility in Mojave APFS you know it's become much more complex than HPFS days. Recently I tried running it from t...

Apple ID problem: sharing iTunes Apple ID in two factor world means authentication requests go to one of many possible devices

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In the old days, before family sharing, families shared purchases by sharing an iTunes Apple ID while using their own Apple ID for me.com se...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Apps for mapping out bike rides

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I recently asked a MN bicycling group what apps they use to layout trail maps. This is the list they gave me: Google Maps I've long used...
Friday, April 02, 2021

The panicky M1 MacBook Air known as Crashy

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Nine weeks ago I replaced Emily's 9yo 11" Air with a 2021 M1 Air . Shortly after we passed the return date I realized I'd made ...