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Nudge towards #visionzero: subsidize reflective materials in clothing, bags, bike paint, etc. #bike
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That iOS 9 text highlight/no-action menu bug isn’t just Reeder.app. Facebook.app has it too. My main 9 irritant.
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Bike laws MN: Passing cars on right is legal but dangerous, yield-at-stop is illegal but safe.
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iOS Share Sheets have two rows, one of apps and one of actions. Sometimes they seem to overlap! What do we call the rows?
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Bizarro world: Desktop apps limited to single window displays (#$$@Photos.app, iTunes, etc), web apps have unlimited tabs/windows often stateless. Not what we expected.
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New frontier – #1 (autism, cognitive disability) is doing local adult hockey [jmshockey.com] with me. Group seems tolerant; he is excited and anxious, showing off his hockey skills (well above rest of us). I think most now know his status.
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… I’m ever more convinced our family should own the smallest possible number of computer related devices. Support costs are too high.
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… What I love about OS X widgets. They haven’t changed in many years. They just work.
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Fujitsu ScanSnap.app for iOS now auto-uploads to Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox. Enables new workflows. Much superior to desktop controlled.
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I think when you retire or sell a machine you want to log every user account out of iCloud separately. Otherwise machine remains as a ghost. Or users can go to iCloud.com and remove items from “My Devices”.
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What happened to Corante’s Pipeline pharm/chem blog? Realized I’ve not seen posts of months. The domain is gone …
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Deleting a TB sparsebundle from Synology NAS Time Machine server is much faster via Synology File Station than by MacOS network connection. As in 10-100 times faster.
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Related to this [tech.kateva.org], Find iPhone shows every device ever associated with our family members, including many long wiped or gone. You can remove items from this list. I don’t know if it updates Apple servers.
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Thought I’d get Emily 6s from AT&T then pay unlock amount. But AMEX purchase protection/extended warranty only apply if I put full price on the card. So Apple sim-free instead. I’ll miss out on that weird AT&T only LTE band.
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For board exams a few things need brutal memory work for old non-practicing doc: oral DM meds, anticoag meds, antidepr. Ramming these into decrepit stores is painful. Draw on page. Correct. Draw on page. Correct. Ugh. I want my memory chip implant now.
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FDA, justly, talks about disasters averted. But metformin, king of type II DM meds, was approved in Canada in 1972 and US in 1995. Really FDA, this needs to be a case study.
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Data wants to die. ALL my multiple redundant backup systems partly failed a recent machine death. Only impulsive extra-extra copy prevented minor data loss.
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Roseville MN Apple Store barely has thunderbolt cable. Hidden in back, black only. No docks. Dead tech.
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Apple Store rep says AppleCare phone support free for holidays. Store support overloaded.
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Sure wish Reeder would use ios9 Safari content blocking. WaPo particularly awful.
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I’m unable to use Time Machine to “browse other backup disks” using sparse bundle backups other than my own. Is this a Yosemite problem? Perturbing…
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When you use Airport Utility to change AirPort Extreme Shared Disk(s) security it *seems* to wipe out everything on the disk. Except free space shows data is still there. Wow. This is … scary.
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If Intel or Apple want Thunderbolt 2/3 to succeed they’re going to have to start making thunderbolt docks.
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Ordered OWC thunderbolt cable from Amazon (Prime, but “Newer Galaxy Distribution”) – shipping notice says “2M Premium”. I knew I was taking a chance to use a secondary vendor even if Prime, but Amazon is still the shits. — http://bit.ly/1MvtReA
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Key human divide: compliance with a rule vs achieving intent of the rule.
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#peakUSB – another side-effect of completely redoing our home computing architecture — suddenly don’t need a USB hub any more. WiFi more reliable, devices work with WPA, we use 5 port dedicated chargers, WiFi sync for iPhones…
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MSFT OneDrive, 15GB free, let’s me create a share-by-link folder that anyone with link can write to. Using it to collect photos for mountain bike party. Drag and drop to Chrome window upload. Mac client for local sync. Nice built in slideshow. Like.
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Just realized Feedbin supports ‘mark all above as read’ (small control icon in right corner of a feed result, could be old). The service continues to quietly improve. Happy to pay for it.
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#incompletesolutionproblem: Did I authenticate via Facebook or Google or local credential? Did I download from vendor or Mac App Store or Amazon?
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End of era: for first time in 19 years new primary computer is less capable than its predecessor.
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So now Apple made me enter my iCloud pw for both me.com and iCloud.com for both iMessage and Facebook. Then I had to create a new security code. Was Apple hacked? Or is this just more of the stupid?
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#lessonsformykids – don’t buy cheap cables. #t
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Anyone else getting Apple ID verification dialogs? New with 9.1? Annoying.
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Multiverse101: 5th electron of your nose is another observer’s virtual particle.
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New-old: Using Scanner Pro.app with paper notebook. Notes by pen, scan by iPhone, post to gDrive, file on server.
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OWC v Elgato thunderbolt 2 doc showdown: Elgato has nicer power brick, fancier build, an undock utility and UASP USB. OWC has FW 800. Next week: performance testing.
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If Tesla fails Apple gets the remnants. That’s one hell of an incentive.
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18y ago my Fujitsu (office) scanner would split documents into PDFs when a blank page was found (single side scan). Very efficient batch scan workflow. Anyone know of something like this for a modern Fujitsu ScanSnap?
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Calendar.app (Yosemite) prints a nice calendar day view. Legacy feature. New Jan 1 yearly recurring task: Create PDF of previous year calendar and archive.
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… nope, 9.1 doesn’t fix the “select twice to get the friggin’ copy menu” bug. (I mostly do this in Reeder, so maybe it’s not all apps?)
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Anyone else feel Murdoch’s WSJ is becoming irrelevant? Rare to hear anything interesting from them.
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Will iOS 9.1 mean that I won’t have to select text twice every time I want to copy it?
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2009 iMac (lemon!) GPU-death near. Considering no replacement. But then want maximal performance of external SSD attached to thunderbolt dock [tech.kateva.org]. In theory UASP is important, but in practice nobody seems to beat 370MB/sec. Does UASP really matter (yet)?
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The #1 selling laptop on Amazon is a $150 11″ Chromebook that can drive an external display [www.amazon.com]. Does Gruber still mock Chromebooks?
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I now wonder if the awful performance I was getting with Time Capsule restores to my 2009 iMac was because I’d enabled Time Machine encryption. That machine may lack dedicated storage specific hardware decryption…
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The more experience I have trying to keep family data from self destructing the more sympathy I have for people who have no backups. I think backup tech is actually regressing.
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Novel spam. Ran my yearly background check for youth sports coaching, got spam/phishing attack saying “background check available”. Coincidence? Bit weird.
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Used to have old time capsule extending modern AirPort Extreme. Time capsule died, AE has entire house. Works a lot better.
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Think I should ask Apple why Aperture supports metadata export only for Originals and not for Versions? Yeah, guess not.
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