Archive for Apple
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...
I've been really liking an iPad sketching app called Paper. It's not a full-fledged Art Application; for example, it doesn't...
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a plaintive blog post about iCloud and the problems I was having with it,...
This entry describes a somewhat techie solution to an unusual problem that most people are unlikely to have. The main...