Monday, February 27, 2023

Managing sync issues in the Apple Notes app - what I do

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I use Apple's Notes app fairly often. It's come a long way from early days but it has its share of bugs. The two I run into most oft...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Apple Watch Sleep App: Reinstallation and setup

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My son has an Apple Watch SE running watchOS 9.3.1 (current). I'd never touched an Apple Watch but we wanted to get some data on sleep i...
Sunday, February 05, 2023

Family member not getting iCloud+ family subscription for 2TB storage - "Use Family Storage" in Settings (Family Sharing)

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A family member was seeing only the default 5GB of storage. I prepared to the usual fixes like restart phone, upgrade iOS, leave and restore...
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...