Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Using IFTTT Webhooks to post RSS feed data to Mastodon (requires pro account)

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Update 2/19/2024 : I did this using my free IFTT account but per IFTT "Starting February 15th, 2024, webhooks Applets will be disconnec...
Monday, January 09, 2023

Switching from Comcast to Century Link - including how to return Xfinity equipment

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Seven years ago we switched from CenturyLink to Comcast/Xfinity . At the time I thought CenturyLink was kaput. Today we switched back; I'...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

Family Sharing: all charges go to Family Organizer - UNLESS there's an Apple Account balance

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One of the drawbacks of Family Sharing is all charges go to the Family Organizer. Even if a family member has a payment method stored in the...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Apple Numbers appears to display a + instead of a / or ÷ for the division formula

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I'm on Mojave for a while (Aperture) so I get to use an old version of Apple's spreadsheet - Numbers 10.1 (6913). It think this is s...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Migrating from an Apple Store/iTunes shared media Apple ID to a standard Apple ID configuration

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I'm putting this up as a peacekeeper. I hope one day I'll fill it in better, but if you are trying to migrate from a shared Apple ID...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

AppleScripts to speed Java compile and execute with BBEdit

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Students are often asked not to use an IDE (I like Visual Studio Java) for their Java projects. Instead they need to use BBEdit without an I...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Apple Music subscriptions stop working when I changed my Media & Purchases Apple ID

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Apple digital rights management (DRM, FairPlay in this case) is very complex, particularly when one adds Family Sharing or has an atypical A...