Saturday, November 27, 2021

Apple Mac App Store: "Unable to download item. Please try again later": The problem may be that you are not the purchaser.

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I was logged into my admin account on my daughter's Big Sur Air and saw the usual nag to update Apps. When I tried though I got  "U...
Friday, November 19, 2021

How to mitigate SMS spam in iOS 15: filter unknown AND disable notifications for unknown senders

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I do not understand why it took Apple so long to do basic management of text message (SMS) spam. I don't understand why the solution app...
Saturday, November 06, 2021

Using Apple Locator devices (AirTags) with an older iPhone

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AirTags will work with older iPhones but things are a little different.  The trick is that they work by Bluetooth with a range of about 20 t...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Safari on US Bank: "our system is not cooperating"

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For the last few days when my wife entered https://onlinebanking.usbank.com into M1 Big Sur 10.4.2 and 10.5.1 Safari she immediately receive...
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Unable to print from Chrome on macOS Mojave - use Cmd-Opt-P to print using system dialog

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Over the the past year Google made several changes to macOS Chrome printing including hiding the "print using system dialog" optio...
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Saturday, August 07, 2021

Calendars 5 for iOS: how to use Apple Contacts to complete attendee list

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Calendars 5 for iOS makes Google Calendar useable -- at a fraction of the cost of Fantastical. It reminds me of PalmOS DateBk 5 and 6 . For...

MindNode for iOS: how to fold a node

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I like MindNode (mind mapping tool) for iOS but the UI can be opaque. I couldn't figure out how to easily collapse a tree branch ("...