Friday, December 27, 2024

Wallet and payment problems with Sequoia: email address in "Wallet & Apple Pay" settings grayed out and cannot be changed

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Today I ran into several very weird issues with Apple Pay and Sequoia. It began when I tried to use Apple Pay from Sequoia. I got a message ...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Copying a calculated cell from Numbers into Pages - two workarounds and Apple's Copy Snapshot answer

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You can't copy a Numbers calculated cell, like one formed by concatenating strings in other cells, into Pages. The formula is pasted ins...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Stop the stupid: Disabling Microsoft AutoUpdate on macOS as of Nov 2024

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Microsoft AutoUpdate is painfully stupid. It makes my teeth hurt stupid. No matter what setting I use, even after I tell it to "just up...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

End of software support for the Fujitsu (Ricoh, PFU) ix500 document scanner

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Many years ago I bought a (then) Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 document scanner. The hardware has been superb but the MacOS desktop software was al...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Sharing an iPad with "Family Sharing" and a unique "Family" Apple ID.

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Nobody expects Apple to bring Apple ID switching to iPadOS -- even though there's a version of it for managed devices . Technical and re...
Friday, June 07, 2024

No message sound for one iMessage correspondent? User message thread can be both silenced and not silenced.

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I thought I'd fixed Emily's messages not generating a tone or haptic notification as per my 4/29/2024 post below. Then the bug recur...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

The modest changes that would make macOS Photos.app a good app

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I've submitted all of these as feature requests to Apple. If you like them please submit too, because we got nothing else. For any phot...