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In a new iPhone “Contacts” is in the Extras folder with the Compass and Voice Memos. That’s interesting.
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… If Apple wanted to make their screwed up Calendars [tech.kateva.org] more useful they could work on Facebook Event integration. Not clear FB would be interested…
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Hmmm. Why is Apple making me choose NEW security questions? Under what conditions would that ever make sense? It’s not a request to validate my identity.
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Remembering my 2014 post on what Apple could do to salvage its Apple Watch investment [notes.kateva.org]. They could still do this.
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Working around lack of archive/export options for Appigo ToDo.app by creating companion Simplenote.app Note for selected items, esp project related. That way I get memory extension even when Task completed/gone.
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Eavesdropping on café conversation between 2 generations of local black activists. Feels like a persistent energy for change. Lots of history from the elder.
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Killing background apps continues to restore function every time iOS 9.2.1 Spotlight stops responding. So glad I found that.
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I think 9.2.1 turned iCloud email on.
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iOS 9.2.1 didn’t fix cellular data use restrictions bug.
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Trump: “get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country”. Android is the working class phone, Apple is the ruling class phone. T is fully Zeitgeist enabled.
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End of paper created Oregon insurgency. End of coal …
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CrossFit is a weirdly good program for an active person with arthritis. Be fun to make the case to a rheumatology conference.
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So if drag emails in Mail.app from iCloud Sent to Gmail Sent, then cancel the operation, they are irretrievably lost. Let’s not do that again.
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Synology Cloud Station: renamed a folder, 1,200 files synchronized. Ok, that’s very ugly.
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Someone used my credentials to join PlayStation Network. Probably a mistake, but if I unthinkingly validated then they’d assume an aspect of my email-userid-defined digital identity. Interesting attack vector.
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Bought Interact.app. Found search results incomplete. I have a lot of Contacts, may be problem with 1.0 version indexing. Should say “index building” on search if not complete.
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Increasing think Reeder.app is what kills spotlight on my iPhone. Killing Reeder resurrects spotlight.
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Tendon stretching theory: Tendon irritation -> inflammation -> reflexive contraction -> shortening -> worse irritation. Stretching breaks cycle. Then can heal over weeks – as long as healing > irritation.
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Any doctors out there remember “pain is the new vital sign”? Back when pharma was promoting chronic opioid use for non-terminal pain. We should remember that one. #weknownothing
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HABITUAL RUNNING DOES NOT INCREASE RISK FOR … STRUCTURE PROGRESSION IN THOSE WITH PRE-EXISTING KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS”. Title from World OA conference presentation. #weknownothing
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Found google drive search wasn’t working on title of a Sheet. Did work on internal column headings! Changing title enabled same string to work. Wonder what else can’t be found …
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I have long said backup was an unsolved problem. Now iOS, Android, and Chromebooks are solving it. By killing it.
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Tip for iOS scanner apps (Scanner Pro, etc): place small paper on 8.5×11 paper on dark background to get PDF size right.
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Digging into Yosemite Console – after cleaning out old crap see lots of new crap from Google Drive. Like FinderSyncAPIExtension … “The Finder version 1.0 is not supported by Google Drive!” Really Google?!
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What year do Android smartphones retail for $10 and be fully transaction and ad supported?
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YouTube comments are an obvious experiment to identify worst of young adult males. Who is running the experiment? Why?
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Alcoholic myopathy [scholar.google.com] is supposedly common, but there’s very little research in past 20 years. Seems mostly from 1960s and earlier.
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Comcast: “Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended”. So I actually have a tiny data cap on my home broadband, it’s just not enforced. I’ve no contract, so they’re unlikely to enforce, but interesting.
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So i’m adopting the convention of using ‘they’ in place of s/he. To hell with grammar, this just makes sense. We break grammar all the time, much easier than inventing a new gender neutral pronoun.
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Email used to be about communication, Now it’s morphed into our unique identifier, our digital identity. The hub of authentication and credential management. Anyone see any writing on this?
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Apple has stayed out of the OAUTH/identity authentication business. That’s strategically interesting …
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… Oh OmniGroup! This is end-times bad. Web site doesn’t work with Chrome [www.omnigroup.com]. Partial render, then crash.
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Decided “smartphone for all…” will be a part of my book title, so registered sphone4all.com, twitter @sphone4all, http://on.fb.me/1IP34sF. Nothing there yet! Next to setup blog, not sure if will do wordpress or blogger.
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Thinking about latest episode in US armed insurgency. FBI should recruit special ed teachers, get experience with low IQ and executive function gaps.
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Novel malware vector. Initial site top rated in a Google search, but that site poisons browser so back button goes to malware download off freefaxed.com. Reported both sites to Google. — http://bit.ly/1OGbdeV
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In iOS 9.x enabling web restrictions prevents users from clearing Safari history. Is this new?
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3D printing does something useful – replacement for those crummy cannondale cable guides that always brake off [www.shapeways.com].
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2015 Tech year in review: lots of hacks and USB C. Next!
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So Motorola’s new display is effectively unbreakable. Would love that.
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‘If there’s anything about the system that you want to fight, just make sure it’s the hill you want to die on.’ Or be anonymous.
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I think Ben Carson is best understood as a very unusual combination of strengths and weaknesses.
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… Synology Cloud Station has problems with some long names and characters. Unfortunately it doesn’t provide any error notification. It simply doesn’t handle the files.
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All seemed well with Synology Cloud Station — until I saw the two read x.
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Winter Olympics 2022 should include a worldwide memorial service for Nordic skiing.
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To remove Facebook info from iOS Contacts.app go to Facebook settings and disable Contacts access to Facebook.app.
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I use to restart my Windows machines every morning. Kept ’em running well. Now I do that for iOS.
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Ancient Rome attitude to poor is right out of GOP talk radio.
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Remember 3D movies?
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Credit OWC. When a gift package was lost (stolen?) from my office, they sent another one. (Similar Amazon, but unexpected.)
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