September was a huge month for Apple, as it often is. It’s the month when the new iPhones are released, along with the latest version of iOS and the new Apple Watch. This September was no different, with the iPhone 13 line, Apple Watch Series 7, and…
Lees meerMy scenario is the following: I have a folder whose contents changes frequently. To be precise, it's my local backup of my Wordpress upload folder wp-content/uploads/ which I rsync in a SSH tunnel from my webhost to my local disk. E…
Lees meerApple insulates us from most of the peculiarities of the cellular world’s text messaging system, SMS (Short Messaging Service), and the multimedia version, MMS. If everyone you text with uses an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch, you see nice blue b…
Lees meerTldr; My Macbook Pro Retina, from 2015 shuts off without any warning at 75%. According to Coconut Battery Design Capacity: 56.7% Made in 4/13/15 Has lasted 3,268 cycles, and the battery status is apparently 'Fair'. Simplo made my batter…
Lees meerApple has released a beta version of macOS Big Sur 11.6.1 for users enrolled in the beta testing program for MacOS Big Sur. The beta update is said to include security fixes, and hints at what the final version of macOS Big Sur 11.6.1 will include f…
Lees meerThis year’s iPhone internals look so good they are begging to be wallpapers. While the outsides of the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max may not look much different than their predecessors we had plenty to say about the internals. The greatest hits include:…
Lees meerOne of the most exciting features for iPhone and iPad with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 is Live Text. Live Text is kind of like OCR (Optical Character Recognition) but for your images, and it allows you to grab text content from photos, whether it’s a scree…
Lees meerApple has released a “Device Support Update” for macOS Big Sur and Catalina. The vague software update is said to ensure “proper updating and restoring for iOS and iPadOS devices”, suggesting the update is necessary for the Mac to function properly …
Lees meerEvery time Apple drops a major new operating system update—whether macOS or iOS—there’s the question of whether or not you should upgrade right away or wait a while. Certainly, there’s a case to be made either way and plenty of variables at play. Wh…
Lees meerApple’s list of currently available content for Apple TV+ continues to grow, but there’s an even faster-growing list of projects in the works. Films, limited series, specials, and multi-season series, Apple’s got lots of irons in the fire for all of…
Lees meerI can ssh just fine into my other Mac when both machines are on the same network using ssh -p 22 [email protected] or ssh [email protected], but when I am on a different network, I cannot ssh successfully. I am met with …
Lees meerSometimes my MacBook Pro with BigSur 11.6 (20G165) takes a very long time to boot. I did a reinstall of MacOS, and this helped for a while. Today I cleaned up my disk (from 20Gb free space to ~150Gb), and this helps too. From my point o…
Lees meerI made 3 scripts to switch between certain browser widths in Chrome’s developer mode. The plan is to click those scripts in my Dock so Chrome enters developer mode (DevTools) and sets needed widths. Or just sets them straightaway if Dev…
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