Archive for Apple
I’ve been mildly sad for a while about a very minor thing: Changes to the UI in Apple Books on the iPad. Apple Books on the iPad mini has been my favorite way to read ebooks since the mini first came out. And part of that was the UI. In particular, one of my favorite […]
Update: This issue has been more or less resolved; it turns out that the images in question had CMYK color profiles attached rather than RGB color profiles, so Apple software was (possibly correctly) displaying them in a way that the designer hadn’t intended. Leaving the post in place for historical purposes. The other night, I […]
I’ve found, and have heard from others, that sometimes it can be hard to get yourself to open a particular file, due to issues like anxiety and avoidance and procrastination. In such situations, for some people, I can imagine that it might be useful to have a system that automatically opens the file for you […]
I spent quite a lot of yesterday fixing my automated backup system at work. Most important bit of this post: In recent versions of macOS, if you want a scheduled Bash shell script to write to your disk, you need to explicitly give Bash “Full Disk Access” permissions. Side note: In most contexts, using a […]
The Mac task management app Things 3 came out in 2017 or so, but it removed an important feature that I relied on heavily in Things 2. (The ability to sort the Today task list by date.) So I kept on using Things 2 at work all this time. But Things 2 recently stopped working, and I decided to […]
I finally got around to creating a Shortcut on my iPad to automatically set various settings when I want to launch a particular app, and it was pretty easy and straightforward, so I thought I would post about it. Background: When I launch the Simply Piano app, I’ve been doing a couple of things manually: […]
While investigating my Mac issues over the past couple weeks, I keep running into directories that I mysteriously can’t access, even using sudo. Tonight I found out why. Apple has implemented something called SIP, System Integrity Protection, which restricts access to various things. And it turns out that in the latest version of macOS, Mojave, […]
Last night, in a successful effort to procrastinate on some overdue work tasks, I looked up how much a nearby house recently sold for, which indirectly led me to update the list of assets in my will. (My will, such as it is, is currently just a text file in the Documents folder of my […]
On my iPhone, I use Google Maps frequently, and Apple Maps fairly regularly. I love both apps, but I can't...
Was helping transport KB and T from one place to another, so I carried three-year-old T down some steps. Safely...
The Intercept recently published a long but interesting article about (among other things) CIA-connected researchers' attempts to subvert Xcode, the...
I bought an iPhone 6+, mainly because it's almost exactly the size that I've been wanting for an ebook reader...