Re: Taking The Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid, Have Some Dignity

Here’s a followup. It’s a rebuke to Daring Fireball’s typically “it’ll all be fine; it’s just the new floppy drive, Apple knows (and does) best” piece (linked to and referred to in the article):

Re: new iPhone

Alas, no. You need a SIM card, just to get it set up. You can operate without afterwards, and any SIM card will do—even one without service—as long as it’s an iOS-recognised network. No, I don’t know why this is either; activation demographics is my best guess. But seeing as how an iPod

Re: Synchronizing time on the Mac, and iPhone

On my Yosemite iMac Startup Disk is already unlocked. It’s controlled from Security & Privacy, General tab, Advanced button, and the funny checkbox that changes its name. Make sure it’s unchecked so it says something like “Some System Preferences with lock icons will be unlocked”, or some

Re: Brexit, wishing our friends across the pond well

Andy, Well, on behalf of all of the progressives in the UK who chose to stay in unity, I say, good for you! It looks like the SNP will declare another referendum. You should be on board when that happens to decide whether you want to be in union with the Westminster establishment and the

Re: Brexit, wishing our friends across the pond well

On 24 Jun 2016, at 12:41, Anne Robertson wrote: > The French are not particularly Islamaphobic, they just don’t like visible > signs of belonging to a particular religion since the state is officially > secular. There are, however, around six million Muslims in France

Re: Brexit, wishing our friends across the pond well

I won’t be talking to anyone for the next week after this. :( Yeah it’s amazing what propaganda is capable of. Like that image of thousands of immigrants crossing a European border. Now I will reconcile myself to the idea that we’re alone. Maybe we’ll manage, maybe we won’t, but it is

Re: Brexit, wishing our friends across the pond well

Mmm, your president does seem to have quite a fascination with teats, doesn’t he? :) Regardless, I imagine his comments did more to inflame the Brexiters than to encourage the Bremainers. But, as it happens, I too hope to remain. The worst part about it is that it’s based more or less purely

Amazon US is Handing Out Credit for the Apple Ebook Price-Fixing Settlement

Details here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1002402851 It’s all automatic. If you got a book from Amazon whose price would have been reduced had it not been for Apple’s malicious attack on The Free Market (TM), you’ll pick up the credit. Enjoy. -- The following information is

Re: SMS forwarding does not work properly.

No idea, sorry. Just tried it on my iPod Touch running the latest beta, and it worked without a hitch, more or less. Make sure you are actually connected to the net on both devices and that iMessage is on on both. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: o/t another sign of the times AISquared acquired by vfo

Heck, no offence was meant, however I still think Apple are the biggest and best example of integrated accessibility actually working, which is why one of the biggest reasons Mac users give for being on Mac is not having to depend on an external AT. That doesn’t factor in to the discussion by

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Yeah, basically, the part you need for Windows integration is OS X Server, which performs authentication for AD on behalf of Mac users that log in and need Mac services, especially the Profile Manager to manage clients. You use Profile Manager to push out configuration changes, or like I said,

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Yep, Apple’s workgroup solutions really work best in an all-Mac configuration, now that they have been thoroughly simplified and borked beyond all recognition. Windows integration is possible, and it gets better, but I think it’s fair to say that Apple’s not really interested in competing

Re: o/t another sign of the times AISquared acquired by vfo

Yeah, I get that as members of the church of Apple there is a certain jubilation at the idea of the death of commercial AT. What I was saying was that, actually, I think this will hurt, while we have competition in the marketplace. I was quite the GW fan, you know (my first screen reader) and

Re: A Comment on the Mac OS Sierra Native Messaging App

To be sure, iMessage and FaceTime’s exclusivity to iPhone has been very helpful for me, as a simple way of filtering out the nonsense, but given that Jobs promised this stuff would be open, I can’t help but agree. Interoperability is always for the better. -- The following information is

Re: o/t another sign of the times AISquared acquired by vfo

Kevin, can you explain what you mean about the email delivery? Are you saying that you get replies before the messages to which the replies apply? Simon, yep GW are a bit hard to touch from outside the US of A, you have to go through their dealerships. Although perhaps, now that they’re part

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Rant ahead; get your sick bags handy. :) Honestly, I’d be fine with trying out a giant iPad for my daily work, if Apple were honest in acknowledging their estrangement from the Mac as a proper workstation OS with proper character and robustness, and were instead committed to fully

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

The features I’ve listed, plus all of the preview features announced by Apple on their own preview site including the powerful new object recognition, are all publicly documented on Apple’s own pages. You can follow them from various pro-Apple places, and don’t have to be logged in with a

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

Of course, if you are a “Developer” then you can wander off and download it. I have it in a VM now. I can’t tell you anything beyond what you’ve already heard, but suffice it to say that the quality control will make or break it. When July comes around and if you can, load it into a

Re: o/t another sign of the times AISquared acquired by vfo

Am I really the only one not dancing with joy here? GW do great work; FS I am, ahem, rather less enthusiastic about. :) And be careful what you wish for. You’ve seen what can happen when vendors take on accessibility, for any number of reasons, good or bad, but which don’t include the best

Re: Creating a bootable ubuntu on mac.

Ubuntu provides documentation, but unfortunately it only applies to modern Macs (specifically, those without optical drives). Older Macs don’t have the capacity to boot MBR-partitioned USB media, and you must use an EFI loader to do it. See: https://sevenbits.github.io/Mac-Linux-USB-Loader/

Re: What Apple TV4 app do I need?

Still no Amazon. What would it take to get Amazon on Apple TV? Apple say they’re welcome; what’s the catch? Old scores, perhaps. Remember that unfortunate nonsense with the anti-trust ebook case? That Apple will not let Amazon sell ebooks through their app, because of the 30% rule? --

Re: Hosting a website on a Mac Mini?

Hi Scott, My internal network is “untrusted” because random strangers I barely know (but just enough to know they’re family and friends) wander onto it. The only reason it’s not entirely open is because my bandwidth is metered by the gigabyte and I’d get into trouble with the law of someone

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

Keep it up, chaps. This is terrific comedy. Oh, and no, I do not hate. I’m Agnostic and spiritual. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

I’m not sure it’s as simple as just “fixing the blindness problem”, because there are lots of existential issues at play here. I do hope, though, that by some means the playing field will be levelled. This would make for an interesting discussion, but definitely not for this list. -- The

Re: Buying vs Purchasing Content

Chris, yes, Apple TV streams from the cloud. The distinction between streaming and downloading is essentially meaningless, though, because the “download” is really just a cache for the Apple TV. You can’t benefit from keeping downloads. The ATV is a streaming box for the cloud, and every

Re: Buying vs Purchasing Content

Episodes work just like other rentals, i.e. they are just videos, in themselves, and can be rented separately, or not, as you want. As for the second question, rent vs buy, it is indeed subjective. I’ve rented a few things that I felt I couldn’t value enough to “Buy” and have since wondered

Re: Hosting a website on a Mac Mini?

In keeping with my cloud-withdrawal paradigm, I’m actually moving away from the VPS space again, and back to a Mac Mini—a dedicated Mac Mini with all my data on it, that runs Linux. The power here doesn’t cut out a lot, but the Mini is configured to restart on power restoration, and I feel

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

I certainly don’t dispute the value touch-screens have had on the approachability of technology, I’m just sorry that it has, in addition to raising the bar for people without sight (which, really, I would not be so concerned about, by itself, as long as there were reasonable network

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

Well, to be sure, I do think the touchscreen was a step back, but not because of accessibility—well, not as much for accessibility. My primary complaint with touch-screens (or, really, touch-anythings) has been the visualisation of information, which inevitably leads to trivialisation as it

Re: Subscriptions and All That

Well, Scott, I just don’t know what to tell you. I just built a NAS with 15 TB usable storage that backs up, encrypted, to the cloud. Evidently, I’m not willing to go full out cloud yet. :) I really get the argument in favour of the cloud. It really is convenient. Just use a ChromeBook and

Re: Developers can gate apps behind subscriptions, within limits, Apple says

Like I said, I sincerely hope that Apple provides the necessary enforcement, is all. I don’t want everything to be a subscription. Ownership, which for me means local storage, is vital. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Re: Searching iTunes with El Capaton

You can search nearly anywhere in iTunes by hitting Command-F to get to the search box, if that’s what you mean. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a

Subscriptions and All That

Oops! This post is long. Sorry about that. :) Great little discussion. DF posted a followup, called “App Store Subscription Uncertainty”: http://daringfireball.net/2016/06/app_store_subscription_uncertainty The linked Apple guidelines make it pretty clear that this is about actual, material,

Daring Fireball: The New App Store: Subscription Pricing, Faster Approvals, and Search Ads

Daring Fireball (which, I think it’s fair to say, is a PR arm for Apple) just published this. Link: http://daringfireball.net/2016/06/the_new_app_store Thank God ads are only in the States, for now. But it, and the whole concept of

Re: Locked out

Yes, Tracey, that is basically what it means. Essentially your login password is protecting your Keychain database. That database holds sensitive passwords and keys and other things stored there, but not much else. If you want real security for your data, use FileVault, which encrypts

Re: Wireless router?

First recommendation: handyman with drill, good precision measure, and a length of CAT6. If possible, cable is *always* the better option. Consult the other half first if applicable, as this is sometimes known to cause domestic unrest. You may also need to consult your landlord if this means

Re: More Micro SD Card Problems

OK, try this. Be careful though, it’s dangerous. Unmount the disk, as before. Now, try wiping out the first megabyte of the disk, with a command like this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk3 bs=1m count=1 In that command, disk3 is the hypothetical disk. Replace it with the real one. Get it

Re: Pages iOS file management

If you don’t mind paying, there’s an even more transparent method that requires no inconvenient file copying at all: DropDAV. Sign up at dropdav.com . This one works by proxying WebDAV through to Dropbox, and because many apps (including Apple’s) know how to do WebDAV to support the

Re: More Micro SD Card Problems

You could do worse than to try and manually unmount the disk (without ejecting it) before the erase. This has worked for me before. You’ll use Terminal. Make sure you use the MBR partition scheme with your FAT file system when creating it. Use the “Erase” function (as of El Cap) or Partition

Re: from VHS to Mac

Well, that wasn’t such a good start. I now have an Ion USB-enabled cassette deck (also with 1/8-inch out) and it took me three cassettes to realise that there’s faint, but noticeable, EMI. I’m going to have to do the recording in the other room, at the very least. And I was rather hoping to

Re: Bug with Alex Saying “Arrived”

Yup. Seen on Yosemite too. Another one of my favourites is “Complete” often sounding exactly like “Completed”. I wish we had Eloquence. No, eSpeak won’t do. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about

Re: Moderators

Of course, it would also help a lot more to read the footer if the moderator address were actually listed there. It isn’t, and that’s what was asked for. :) Mark’s email address is mk...@ucla.edu . HTH -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list.

Re: from VHS to Mac

All right, thanks Chris. Cheap and cheerful it is; this iMac has no line-in, anyway. I want to keep my expenses low, although the more I can get out of it, the better. I’m also rather space-constrained, so something I can hook up with minimal cabling is appreciated. Better yet if it

Re: Widgets, and Calendars, and Lists, Oh My!

Widgets are still accessible, if you want them. System Preferences, Mission Control, and then assign a key to Dashboard. I think it’s pretty clear Apple are going to deprecate them, sooner or later. Notification Centre is now the way to get these little bits of info. I’m not much of a fan

Re: iTunes 12.4.1 released with voiceover fixes

Thanks, updated my iMac. My Mini server, it seems, already updated itself automagically on account of iTunes not being open. Anyway, yeah, no discernible difference. What about Windows users, I wonder? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list.

Re: Apple Music protected files question

Weird, I can’t imagine iTunes objecting to iTunes media files for any reason. What happens if you try adding them to your library from the iTunes File menu? Point to them, and see what it says. Then there’s the fact it’s DRM, of course. Maybe you aren’t authorised to play them any more.

Re: from VHS to Mac

Yeah, definitely overkill. :) There are mass-market digital tape decks now, with USB interfaces. Maybe it could still be worth it. Sure, a lot of it isn’t particularly hi-fi (audiobooks, for example) but some of it is still irreplaceable because the “Modern” alternative doesn’t charm like

Re: Apple pulls Airport routers, possible refresh coming

Well, good to hear that the Ubiquiti gear was accessible, at any rate. I’m not exactly in love with the idea of a dedicated configuration app, but since Apple do it, I probably shouldn’t complain, even though I do because it’s just plain wrong and dammit this is why we have standards. :) Yes,

Re: VO on Mac randomly speaking text?

Yes, I have seen this, too. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, it’s a little disconcerting. It seems that any past thing that VoiceOver has said in that session is fair game. I don’t believe it has anything to do with mouse motion, it just suddenly happens, sometimes in place of

Re: What To Do About Constant "Mail Busy"

Yeah, I know. Try avoiding the moving of messages to the Trash inside threads, but outside (i.e. in the message list). Become familiar with and use the Command-Option-Delete combination, to delete messages immediately, at greatly improved speeds. This is permanent so be careful. Avoid

Re: from VHS to Mac

If you’ll pardon the hijack, but how about cassette, along similar lines? I have a lot of tapes that need digitising, but no player because my brother is squatting in my flat and has replaced the old hi-fi with one of these pointless iPod speaker boombox docks. Anyone got recommendations for

Re: Apple TV

Nothing says you can’t continue to use the 3rd gen, if it meets your needs. Certainly with the decided dearth of apps on the fourth, you might not even notice. For me, the two noticeable improvements are BBC iPlayer and iCloud Photo Stream (for my mother’s photo collection on her account).

Re: Pptp or vpn.

Yeah, Europe is totally cool with Free-to-Air, they just haven’t caught up with the Internet yet. :) Fortunately some commissioner wants to watch foreign sport or something, and Europe has a common market, so … not long now. :) The BBC still has a place for me, but I’m afraid they’re slipping

Re: Apple pulls Airport routers, possible refresh coming

Eu-bloody-reka! http://www.chriscolotti.us/technology/apple-airports-dirty-little-secret/ Recent firmware that supports extending guest networks to extender AirPort base stations do so using VLAN 1003. Awesome. So I can do the whole Internet-only guest networks thing even without a primary

Re: Home Sharing

Of course. With Apple, everything is obvious when you have consumed the appropriate mind-bending drugs. :) Well, with iCloud Match or Apple Music Library, I was thinking that since one feature is to show you an online library, you could take advantage of Home Sharing when you’re home, but

Re: Home Sharing

That checkbox in Preferences is irrelevant to Home Sharing; it only control sharing of music to other Macs/Windows/DAAP clients, i.e. iTunes running on a computer (but not iOS) or an iOS DAAP app. The control you want is in File, Home Sharing as you know. Put music on your iOS device, eh? Of

Re: Safari bookmark redirecting to autocompleted site name

Frequently visited sites now appear in your favourites, which are autocompleted in the address bar, in your bookmarks. Perhaps if you tried going to Bookmarks > Show Frequently Visited in Favourites and making sure it’s toggled off, you might get the desired behaviour. Personally I’m happy

Re: Home Sharing

Well I forget the wording of the ad just now, but one of the buttons should be something like “Show my music” or some such thing. The other starts the subscription process for Apple Music. Press the continue to your library button and you’ll be in your music. Pretty slimy behaviour by Apple,

Re: Apple pulls Airport routers, possible refresh coming

Yeah, I’m with Tim here. There are of course competitors, but to me, speed isn’t everything and you can more than make up for any potential inflexibility in the router part of the AirPort by just using it as a pure bridging access-point, at which it’s very good. The only thing I wish they’d

Re: Apple pulls Airport routers, possible refresh coming

Well I hope it’s not that they’re leaving the market, that’s for sure. I only recently had the dubious honour of setting up a Netgear Wi-Fi extender, and wish it had been an AirPort. A new one is not off the cards for me. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: Home Sharing

It’s not an empty library or an ad for Apple Music, is it? You might have to dismiss that. But definitely, once you’re in a list of your stuff, you should find the category button to switch with. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Re: AirPort Firmware 7.6.7/7.7.7 Released

Only 300 Mb/s, eh? You lucky sod. I can about get 68 down, 18 up. I’m not unhappy with that, particularly given that I have such a wonderful ISP, but my wouldn’t I give for a proper FTTP rollout. Perhaps if our neoliberal government spent less time navel-gazing about the UK’s laughable

Re: Home Sharing

Yep, Tim has it right. The trick is the categories selector. Home Sharing will appear only when there is a Home Sharing iTunes library, i.e. iTunes is running and Home Sharing was switched on. Now, if Apple would allow the download of material to an iOS device from a home share, that would

Re: Bluetooth headset

I need to travel a bit more with the Titanium to say whether it’s really an improvement, but my impressions so far are that it’s worse than the Bluez2. It is indeed more flexible, but that’s about all you can say for it … Off the cuff, I’d say stay put with your Bluez2. -- The following

Re: Using SSH to find a computer

You won’t use SSH for discovery of that kind, although you can certainly use SSH to connect to a discovered machine. Is this other box iOS or OS X? Just use .local, where is the short hostname of that host. You can set the short name in System Preferences, Sharing, Edit. It will find the

Re: Pptp or vpn.

As a TV-licence-fee payer, I suppose I should be glad you all appreciate BBC content so much, but also rather resentful at the idea that you’re getting all this lovely content for free while I have to fork out actual cash for it, you swine! :) Geoblocking is utterly braindead, and every effort

Re: Google's Eric Schmidt uses an iPhone as his primary device, not android

Of course, it just makes sense. Apple shareholders are in it for the money and would rather use PCs and Android to keep the costs down and specs up while raking it in, while Alphabet’s top executive is using an iPhone because the entire Android ecosystem is completely unsustainable in spite of

Re: 1Password 6.3

About flaming time, indeed. Sadly it also made using it a little less efficient; you’ll notice that there are now groupings around the table views. Ah well, can’t have everything. And I’m now quite used to these little oddities. -- The following information is important for all members of

Re: AirPort Firmware 7.6.7/7.7.7 Released

Well, it looks from reports like many of the changes were overdue bug fixes: an issue with DHCPv6 and Cox, and an issue with clients being separated from one another which broke AirPlay. Not sure how it took this long, but glad it’s done. I’m not buying Google’s product; I like the Apple

AirPort Firmware 7.6.7/7.7.7 Released

For those of you packing AirPort 802.11 n or AC base stations from Apple (Express, Extreme, Time Capsule), there are new updates for you: 7.6.7 for n and 7.7.7 for AC. The fixes are mostly in the name of performance and stability rather than anything groundbreaking, but I’d definitely suggest

Re: Pptp or vpn.

PPTP is a particular VPN protocol, so you don’t choose between PPTP and VPN but PPTP and some other protocol. PPTP is very convenient because it’s widely used and supported by everything, but it’s less secure than other protocols such as OpenVPN or IPSec. I prefer IPSec myself, as it’s

Re: Bluetooth headset

Krister, you’re not alone. Despite my best efforts to like both Bluez 2 and Trekz Titanium, I’m afraid they just aren’t for me. I will need something louder, with more clarity. I’ll take the risk of using them only while I’m travelling with sight, and keep the Bluez for solo trips with

Re: Apple Watch on Wifi.

Try forgetting and re-adding the Wi-Fi network on your iPhone. Sometimes I found that if the watch had been set up after the Wi-Fi network, then the watch didn’t receive the necessary key. Also make sure your Wi-Fi network offers DHCP (almost always the case), you’re using a simple shared key

Re: State of PDF accessibility?

The funny thing about that is that a lot of Apple’s own PDFs, even the technical ones and the VO Getting Started document, are tagged. You get a great experience reading them on Windows. Yes, I too hope this absurd situation improves. -- The following information is important for all members

Re: RSS Reader

By not simple I mean you don’t just run an app. You need to download Python scripts and configure them by editing a text file. Then you run them on a schedule. The scripts need to know your SMTP server and/or need to be able to call sendmail to send you the email. The newest versions also

Re: Disk Utility

Windows can do GPT on hard disks, so why on earth it can’t on USB devices, God only knows. Stupid Windows. Both Windows and OS X support ExFAT nowadays. 200 MB is exactly the size of the FAT32 ESP (EFI System Partition) that OS X creates; I imagine that’s what you were seeing. And Windows is

Re: RSS Reader

rss2email is written in Python and is relatively simple to install. In fact I run it on Debian Linux where my mail system is, but it runs under OS X just fine if you specify SMTP credentials. Follow the instructions at: http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/getting-started-with-rss2email/ I

Re: RSS Reader

In the end, I went back to rss2email. It is not as convenient as using something like Readkit, but it’s a lot more portable and flexible. Using rss2email is not simple. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Re: test

CalDAV/CardDAV servers are available for the calendars/contacts, although really you’d like to have that be part of ActiveSync push as well. Alternatively, you could go the Apple push route and modify your dovecot to support XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE which uses APNS to notify you; then you’re exactly

Re: test

Damned Apple, why can’t they support IMAP IDLE like civilised platforms? Why make an exception for ActiveSync or (cough, cough) iCloud? Lock-in, I bet … When I asked Jobs (or the person behind his email address) whether it was political or technical, he said it was technical, specifically for

Re: What shall I get? Any recommendations?

Problem with the Mac Mini is that they seriously undermined it when going from quad-core to dual-core. Sure, it’s still a fabbo Mac, and I bought one to run headless and could probably use it as a replacement for my desktop if the need arose, and it’s still an excellent starter Mac. But it no

Re: iTunes SideBar, Anyone?

The same? All I’ve got here is playlists and devices—is that not all that appears in the sidebar? The sidebar was useful, but as so often happens, I somehow managed to adapt to the new layout, and now forget why exactly I thought so at the time … Overall, I like the new structure. For

Re: What shall I get? Any recommendations?

This is clearly dependent on what your needs are, and the answer is different based on who you ask. I concur with those suggesting the Air. The single-port MacBook has a strong probability of near-term obsolescence. Then again, the Air is probably due for obsolescence by the same MacBook, so

Re: iCloud email on Mozilla Thunderbird

You can use any IMAP client, including Thunderbird, to get to iCloud. Just use imap.mail.me.com port 993 with SSL and smtp.mail.me.com port 587 with TLS, and log in with your existing iCloud user name and password. If you have two-step verification set up, you have to go to Apple’s website

Re: two-step verification

In these enlightened times of perpetual password breaches, it’s certainly a good idea. And you no longer have to remember or answer those silly security questions. However, it does translate to a responsibility for you to ensure you have access to a device that can be reached for the second

Re: Patch Batch

Oh, yes, because all software updates are grouped together. You can “reveal individual updates”. Now they’re installed, you can see what was installed in the history for the last month on the same page. Wish Apple would bring back Software Update. That was a far superior experience to

Patch Batch

You may be interested to know that Apple have just pushed out a lot of updates: OS X El Capitan to 10.11.5. Yosemite (and presumably Mavericks) to Security Update 2016-003 and Safari 9.1.1 (included in El Capitan). iTunes to 12.4. iOS to 9.3.2. TVOS to 9.2.1. WatchOS to 2.2.1. Weird, WWDC is in

Re: Keeping iOS apps in sync with Mac

Basically, the thing to realise with the backups (either local or remote) is that they only contain references to your media, but not the media itself. Restoring a backup just means reinstating the sync preferences, and copying over the media that was there when the backup was made. You need

Re: Consistently degrading lightning cables

I wonder if there’s an animal connection? After all, chewed cable could have actually been chewed. :) Anyway, my Apple dock recently failed. It’s reassuringly expensive, which means I’m not going to replace it. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries

Re: Keeping iOS apps in sync with Mac

You can’t transfer from your iOS 9 device to iTunes. Every app that’s installed on your device, even those you copy from your iTunes library, is already sliced. If it came from the store, it was sliced before you downloaded it on your device. If you transferred from iTunes, then iTunes has

Re: Consistently degrading lightning cables

I have heard similar reports of breakage, yes, but must admit that I’ve never personally experienced it and can’t really put a finger on what on earth might be going on. I have experienced the common problem of lint getting stuck in the connector at either end of the cable and sometimes in the

Re: Apple store now stocking accessibility items

Initial-letter navigation, I think, is the big one that note-takers have. If we could have that on iOS with input from a braille display, that would be all kinds of awesome. I love KeySoft just for that, really. That and pure braille translation with literary finesse, e.g. indenting two

Re: Apple store now stocking accessibility items

I really dislike the FS braille displays, but did applaud their efforts to go more mainstream than their Humanware rival on the notetaker front. Inevitably, though, I stuck with BrailleNote because their most important function, note-taking and braille translation, remained unparalleled in my

Re: A VM snapshot question

If you didn’t install VMWare Tools yet, then choose that option from the VM menu to get them installed. They support folder sharing, copy-and-paste between host and guest, and all that. If you have them installed, then if I remember right you should find the Shrink tab in the Control Panel

Re: Apple store now stocking accessibility items

Curious thing, that. Although I am quite a Humanware fan, by and large, their latest product—a tablet running Android—is shortly to become available. I don’t suppose that will be on Apple’s store. :) Anyway, the great news is that Apple want exactly the same for the Brailliant displays that

Re: Viewing Source in Safari

Yes, indeed. Very frustrating. Whenever I need the source I just use curl from the Terminal, although of course this is not always an option. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of

Re: weird vo output message

Go to VoiceOver Utility, sound category. If it’s set to “System Default” for output, then that’s probably because you’re using AirPlay, so either manually set VO to the correct device or stop using AirPlay from the menu bar. If you aren’t using the default then VO is trying to be helpful by

Re: Keeping iOS apps in sync with Mac

App slicing is this new technology that means that you only have the binary code and data your app actually requires on a given device. Example: you have a 64-bit chip, so you don’t need 32-bit code. You no longer download a complete app with everything packed inside, but download only the

Re: Keeping iOS apps in sync with Mac

With app slicing in iOS 9, you can’t transfer apps from your phone to iTunes any more. You can only go one way: from iTunes to phone (iTunes thins the apps on transfer). You’ll waste bandwidth using iTunes if you only have one device. You can use OS X Server to cache content if you have

Re: 1Password for Mac

No, it isn’t fixed, but for all that, I’m still using it. It’s annoying that you have to paste your secrets in from the clipboard, but it can be done and does work, and really, 1Password is most useful from iOS anyway. Just don’t generate any passwords and you’ll be all right. -- The

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