Archive for category: Macintosh supremacy
Of or pertaining to the supremacy of the Macintosh
- Non-Apple MP3 players (2018.11.26)
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Circa 2010, iTunes could recognize these “non-Apple” MP3 players
- iPhones are hard to use (2018.10.22)
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Very advanced, very tuned-in people learn about, and learn how to use, new Apple features by watching them being demonstrated onstage during Apple keynote events. Then there’s everybody else
- iPhone keyboards randomly change colour (2018.10.22)
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Keyboards and keypads on iOS randomly switch from positive to negative. My blind friend couldn’t call voicemail for weeks until he figured out a workaround
- My setup (2018.10.22)
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My iPhone setup (sidebar)
- How to listen to YouTube audio as a “podcast” (2018.01.09)
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Who the hell wants to sit fixedly in a chair watching a visually uninteresting YouTube video when you can just listen to it while on the go? A lot of lectures and interviews have no useful visual component, and you really can just listen to them and miss almost nothing
- Eudora reminiscences (2017.10.05)
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Eudora equivalent of 2017: Overcast
- Defeating Face ID (2017.09.28)
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There are other face-recognition systems, even on telephones, but Face ID on the iPhone X will be the gold standard to beat. Hence it becomes an amusing parlour game to imagine ways to defeat this still-unreleased technology [update with how stupid I feel about this entire post]
- Steve Dorner: Still undead (2015.07.04)
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Steve Dorner: Still undead, and your E‑mail still sucks
- Daring Fireball Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015.06.12)
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King of Macintosh journalists John Gruber, like his fellow-traveller male technology hacks, has much to answer for after they spent years hushing up the fact Tim Cook is gay