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  • An Observation About the Photos From IPPAWARDS Winners of 2023

    August 16, 2023 5:57am
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    I forgot to linkpost to the IPPAWARDS winners of 2023. Lot’s of great photos. Really. Twenty photos come from the iPhone 12 series (which came out in 2020). Five from the iPhone 13 series and another five from the iPhone 7 (which came out in 2016). Only four from the iPhone 14 series. What can we conclude from this? It doesn’t matter which camera you’ve got. The best one is the one you’ve got with you at the right place and time. Continue reading →

  • August 15, 2023 9:06pm
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    If US legal institutions cannot take down Trump, then this country is in a dire situation.

  • August 15, 2023 6:18am
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    Apps & Services

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    I made many updates to my Complete Content Creator Toolset to reflect recent additions and removals. If you are curious about the apps and services that I’m using, this is the place to watch!

  • August 15, 2023 5:42am
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    Creating a Custom Branded File Sharing Service for Free mattlangford.com

    Reader: mattlangford.com

    Matt Langford https://mattlangford.com/2023/07/27/creating-a-custom.html

    Thanks to @Mtt, I completed my version in about an hour.

  • August 14, 2023 8:17pm
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    It’s funny and cool how I’m slowly but surely rebuilding my social graph with people who fled X to Mastodon and Pixelfed. I feel at home again.

  • August 13, 2023 7:25pm
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    Say hello to hello@numericcitizen.me!. Finally decided to spend some time making my hello@numericcitizen.me work using the iCloud+ Custom Mail domain. Works great so far. Come and say hi!

  • On Being Locked Out of an Apple ID Account

    August 13, 2023 4:52pm
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    Being locked out of an Apple ID account is probably one of the worst nightmares I could imagine. This story (Reddit link) makes me pause for a bit. If you spend some time reading the comments thread, it seems the original poster doesn’t tell the whole story. There are some grey zones here. Nonetheless, the possibility of losing complete access to my previously purchased and subscribed content is really something that I wouldn’t want. Continue reading →

  • August 13, 2023 9:26am
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    I decided to add a small collection of mini reviews that I read from time to time to my digital garden. The first two to make it to the collection: Matt Birchler’s comments about Ulysses and possible free and similar alternatives. The second is Manton’s comments on text editors for developers or other text manipulation.

  • August 11, 2023 7:17am
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    I’m thinking of creating an email address like hello@numericcitizen.me using iCloud+. I’m not sure it’s worth the hassle, though. I’ll had to tweak the setup a bit for it to work with my current DNS settings at CloudFlare.

  • August 10, 2023 7:45pm
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    Apple & Tech

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    I don’t like these two “disconnected” visual elements: the menu bar from the dropdown menu. The highlighted portion of the menu bar and the menu itself. There, I said it. On a positive note: on recent MacBook Air like mine, I love the rounded screen corners.

  • August 10, 2023 7:28pm
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    Every single day, I read a new post by Pixelfed about upcoming features, additions or redesign. The list is too long to write here (and to build!). All apps are in beta. It’s a maturing platform / service for sure, but man, ship it already, stop the talk!

  • August 10, 2023 5:51am
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    Misc

    Call for comments: those with a recent MacBook with a notch, what utility are you using to make it “disappear”? TopNotch doesn’t work on the latest macOS release for me. I’m unsure if this is because it conflicts with another utility (like Bartender).

  • August 9, 2023 8:49pm
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    Running beta5 of Sonoma on my soon-to-be returned MacBook Air. I’m not so sure this thing is quite ready yet. I’ll wait a few more betas before installing Sonoma on my new MacBook Air.

  • August 9, 2023 6:39am
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    I think I’ll use my previous MacBook Air to test Sonoma this week-end before returning it to Apple! Who knows what will break.

  • August 9, 2023 6:32am
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    I just enabled cross-posting from Micro.blog to my Pixelfed account. I’m not sure I’ll use it, simply because I don’t post that many photos here. I prefer to use a dedicated service for photography. But who knows, it might come in handy at some point. Thanks, @manton, for being so quick to add these features!

  • On Apple's Migration Assistant

    August 9, 2023 6:01am
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    Ok, can we agree that Apple’s Migration Assistant is magical? 🤯 After the new Mac got updated, it was required to match the version of the source Mac. It took about 45 minutes to transfer 375GB of data (with a peak speed of 650MB/s over Thunderbolt 4 cable), and boom. Of course, I had all those required permissions to be set again. But, wow, writing this on my brand new 15-inch MacBook Air this morning. Continue reading →

  • August 8, 2023 7:44pm
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    Yep. 😎

  • August 8, 2023 4:18pm
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    Apple & Tech

    I’m seeing a lot more AirPods Max than I used to.

  • August 8, 2023 8:57am
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    Decided to move PocketCast on my first iPhone homescreen so that I increase my podcasts listening. I under utilize this great app for which I’m a subscriber. I’m not sure it will move the needle.

  • August 8, 2023 6:03am
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    On my last flight heading back to Montreal. This is where, for me, the iPad shines. Hey @manton look carefully at what is on my iPad screen… 👀 Ask @jean, she will explain to you what I’d like to do eventually with you.

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