Archive for category: Macintosh supremacy

Of or pertaining to the supremacy of the Macintosh

Non-Apple MP3 players    (2018.11.26)

Circa 2010, iTunes could recognize these “non-Apple” MP3 players

iPhones are hard to use    (2018.10.22)

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)

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)

My iPhone setup (sidebar)

How to listen to YouTube audio as a “podcast”    (2018.01.09)

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)

Eudora equivalent of 2017: Overcast

Defeating Face ID    (2017.09.28)

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)

Steve Dorner: Still undead, and your E‑mail still sucks

Daring Fireball Truth and Reconciliation Commission    (2015.06.12)

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