Holy useful.
Luckily in my household we have all this under control - I know how it works, and my wife just knows that it works. A shared Apple ID for apps and media, plus individual Apple IDs for email, calendar and reminders. Not a seamless Apple experience, but it works.
Posted 3 days ago
I believe that many Apple observers have been too invested in picking off the low hanging fruit of obviously out-of-touch commentators, columnists, and analysts. Apple is winning. It’s fun to pick on the idiots, and we do tune in for the affirmation that engenders, but that’s not insight. It’s a tag team wedgie patrol.
Source: kickingbear.com
Posted 4 days ago
Apple rumors will continue as long as people can make a few pieces of silver on it. What we can do, however, as a community, is not click, not cover, and generally ignore this fictitious digital vomit.
Source: macsparky.com
Posted 5 days ago
Are you as simultaneously excited and nervous as I am, old sport?
My favourite book, now in another film incarnation. The trailer looks promising, luminous in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge style and DiCaprio looks enigmatic.
Let’s hope it’s not the same disappointment the turgid Robert Redford version was.
Posted 6 days ago
Amid all the recent Google privacy brouhaha I switched my personal email from Gmail to iCloud, which also involved a switch from the Gmail web interface to Mail.app. Overall the Mail.app interface is nice, certainly easier on the eye than Gmail. But Gmail was faster to navigate using keyboard shortcuts, particularly its single-key shortcuts such as ‘y’ to archive, ‘c’ to compose a new message, and ‘[’ to archive the current message and open the next oldest message[1].
By comparison, some of the Mail.app shortcuts feel clunky and unintuitive: Shift+⌘+D to send? Really? I know it’s got to avoid clashes with other keyboard shortcuts anywhere on the system, and both ⌘+s and ⌘+d are spoken for, but a three-key combo to send an email feels like one key too many.
The shortcut I found myself missing most was Gmail’s ‘y’ to archive. I’m pleased to see Mail.app offers a similar archive function, and by adding the Archive folder to the Favorites bar it’s possible to automatically create a keyboard shortcut to move messages to that folder. It’s just that it’s another clunker: if the Archive folder was the third folder in the Favorites bar, its keyboard shortcut would be ⌘+⌃+3. Yuck.
We can do a little better than that. I don’t think it’s possible to set up a Gmail-style one-key shortcut, but we can set up ⌘+y to move the selected message to the Archive folder. Here’s how:
That should do the trick. Happy not-quite-Gmailing in Mail.app.
You can get a full list of Gmail keyboard shortcuts in the web interface by pressing ‘?’ ↩
Posted 6 days ago
No doubt thoroughly unscientific, but apparently I’m going to live to be 90. Not bad.
Posted 1 week ago
Well, I’m pleased to say Twitter is not tracking me on the web. It could be a non-US user thing, a UK user thing, or maybe they’re just gradually rolling it out this “feature”, but when I went to untick the magic box I was greeted with this:
The feature to tailor Twitter based on your recent website visits is not available to you.
Let’s hope it stays that way.
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Posted 1 week ago
And for balance, a movie I’m not at all interested in. I know several people who are very excited about this. I could give you my analysis of the original Anchorman, but to avoid provoking people I’ll just say it ain’t my brand of humour and leave it at that.
Do like the suits though.
