Re: Mail Drop Download

You can actually see the link in the plain text of the email, in addition to the attachment menu in Mail. This means that MailDrop is just the ticket for getting Apple to host your self-expiring temporary downloads for you. :) You’ll know when this happens. The text also says when the links ex

Re: How to add an item to the dock?

Do you reckon that any of this arcana would work to get books drag-dropped out of iBooks and into a folder? Nowt I’ve tried has actually worked. This weekend’s project included getting a Mountain Lion VM up and running just so I could fetch my unprotected ePub books from Apple. I’m sure there’

Re: Iphone 6s plus audio problim

Yes. Noticeable decrease in speaker performance from iPhone 6 Plus to iPhone 6S Plus. It was quite a disappointment, and I know it’s not just me either. I’m not going back, though, because the 6S Plus still has the better specs and wicked-fast Touch ID. -- The following information is impor

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

Quite right: stability is king. I can count on my two hands the number of features since, say, iOS 6 or OS X Snow Leopard that are actually relevant and necessary and that could have been engineered to perfection by now. The rest of it is so much trash. Sadly, yeah, Apple is always about “Pus

Re: Dragging an unprotected iBook

Thanks Jonathan. I tried something like this before, without success, but I'll be trying again now that you’ve got it working. I checked AppleScript and Automator: nothing on iBooks. Looks like drag-drop is the only possible way to do this. I filed a radar with Apple about this some time ago

Re: Dragging an unprotected iBook

My bug report about this is still there on Radar (and OpenRadar) as Open. I added a note with a link to the discussion on this list, and I’ll try it myself tomorrow. I’d really like to get this going. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If

Re: Chris, can you read this?

It’s just PGP-MIME. Some email clients, notably those produced by MickeySoft, have trouble with it. Naturally, it’s the client that’s at fault, and not the sender; PGP-MIME is an IETF spec and moreover is back-compatible with existing MIME use. Scott could switch to ASCII-armouring. This has

Re: FBI drop case against apple

It’s a bit concerning though, because it implies that the FBI now have a way to break Apple’s security. So what could that say about the security Apple is providing? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns a

Re: crazy IOS 9.3 feature

Are you sure you haven’t just got iCloud Keychain turned on everywhere? That has synced Wi-Fi passwords since forever now. And if you also had iPhone hotspot turned on, your other devices would still be able to get the connectivity needed to update themselves with your new password, as long as

Re: Apple watch

Hang on a minute. There are hardware/software functionality differences between different editions of the watch? Really? I thought it was all about the materials, and nothing else. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questi

Re: crazy IOS feature.

Either your iPad has cell connectivity or has some special hardware that allows it to do non-Wi-Fi-based communication that is new since some release of iOS past 7 or OS X past 10.9, which is when Keychain was introduced. As long as you can reach the Interwebs, you can sync your iCloud Keychain

Re: FBI drop case against apple

Well I’m still pretty big on the PR conspiracy theory. :) In any event, strong crypto is the answer. It always was, and it always will be. You don’t have to be particularly cynical or libertarian to see that this was really a security failure, assuming the FBI was indeed successful. -- The f

Re: How to reset a password to an airport extreme if lost?

Press the Reset button on the back of AirPort with a pen or pin or such. Press it only briefly, say a second. Now your network’s password is “public” and you must update its configuration within five minutes or it will revert to its old password. No other aspect of your configuration changes.

Re: Dragging an unprotected iBook

It’s no good. I don’t know what luck you had with this, but I just don’t seem to be able to do this, no matter what I try. Tried it with multiple selection and without, resizing to top/bottom and left/right, tried list view and column view in both Finder and iBooks. God I wish it would just w

Re: iPhone 6S Plus Extreme Heat Issue

In the past, there have been software problems known to push the iPhone into a busy loop that causes great heat output. It doesn’t change the advice you’ve already got, of course, but if for no other reason, you may like to put your phone into DFU mode and do a complete reinstallation of the ne

Re: Apple Watch: I love it, but I hate it.

It does seem to be an axiom of Apple that one should buy their products from Apple, but their accessories from anywhere but Apple, yes. :) The way I do it is quite simple: check the Apple Store to see what Apple recommends, and then go and find them elsewhere. This usually, but not always, pro

Re: crazy IOS 9.3 feature

This is all expected behaviour if the devices have any other means of reaching the Internet. This probably includes the case where you’ve changed network SSID while the old network is still running. If you change the SSID and then make sure everything is disconnected from any network first, th

Re: crazy IOS feature.

OK, there we are then, expected behaviour. If that cell connectivity is up while the Wi-Fi is down, then it’ll receive your updated keychain the moment you add the network back to your other device, which transmits it the moment it, itself, is up on Wi-Fi. Now that your iPad has Wi-Fi configur

Re: crazy IOS feature.

Dunno, to be honest. Perhaps the iPod could still reach the Internet through another access point and thereby update. A guest AP, maybe? -- 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

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

You’ll have to consult the DHCP server of your router, assuming you want IPv4 addresses. They may or may not be available for IPv6. If you are using AirPort, then you will only be able to find the IP addresses of wireless clients. Apple, in its infinite stupidity—oops, wisdom—decided to remov

Re: FBI drop case against apple

Well before you go galloping off to Blackberry, check this out: http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/12/the-encryption-debate-a-way-forward/ The US government is quite the customer, I understand. Nothing personal, bro. But the money is more important. :) Still, he went rather quiet when the case f

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

Apple works in mysterious ways, eh? Sounds a bit credulous to me … :) AirPort Utility was one of the earliest (and most distressing) illustrations of the iOSification of OS X. It sucked then, and it sucks right now, as you are discovering. Here’s the link you need: http://coreyjmahler.com/201

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

Alas, the newest base stations (AC Extreme, Time Capsule) no longer support SNMP either, in accordance with the “Leave it to us, and believe” mentality of the new utility and most of Apple’s line-up. If you have an older unit that has SNMP, you’ll have to toggle it back on and configure the com

Re: El Capitan Clean Install

I did notice this as well, so I too would be interested in the outcome. Activities are still broken though, which is the primary reason I downgraded to Yosemite on my iMac. I had an activity specifically to use Safari, which did some optimisations for the web, but since activities aren’t switc

Re: getting my pictures from my iPhone help

Hi Zoe, The homologous functionality in Mac OS is provided by Image Capture. Launch it, select the connected device, choose a target for your images and import, optionally deleting the originals. You might have to expand the advanced options in that window. Photo management on iOS prior to i

Re: Apple Watch: I love it, but I hate it.

Yep. The margins Apple make are tremendous, but it’s the happy brand and they can afford to overcharge. I mean, if you aren’t going to be at the bottom of the pile, then you can sure as hell afford to be at the top. :) Having said this, the one thing I’d never compromise on, no matter what, is

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

If you type Terminal into Spotlight, you ought to find it. It’s in the Utilities folder inside your Applications folder, and I can’t think why it wouldn’t be there unless you’ve explicitly deleted it. As for your next router, well, nothing says it can’t be another AirPort if it actually meets

Re: Got my hands on an apple watch

No you can’t (get a watch without its band). This is another big bonus for the Sport model, IMO. -- 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 post is

Re: ML & updating Safari?

Yeah, I completely understand. ML was a great release, even if it was a little rocky towards the end. But unfortunately the only solution that really works in your situation is to switch to Chrome. You can’t go past Safari 6, and you’re not receiving OS security updates, either (as always wit

Re: getting my pictures from my iPhone help

Sorry, I should have said that Image Capture is an application in the Applications folder (Command-Shift-A in Finder). And yes, it ought to import your videos as well. Once you’ve done your import you can double-check using the Photos and Videos apps. -- The following information is importan

Re: Controlling the folders in the popup menu of save dialogs?

I think, but I’m not entirely sure, that it’s simply the contents of your sidebar, plus your recents. So, check Finder preferences under Sidebar, and add anything to the list that you want to see in the menu. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries lis

Re: ML & updating Safari?

Or Mavericks. That wasn’t too bad, either, although it was definitely the early beginnings of the storm. This was the release were iBooks wasn’t accessible, for the whole time. But at least Mail didn’t slow right down, the way it does in El Cap and Yosemite. -- The following information is

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

The Draytek box in this case was a VDSL modem, not a router. It makes the VDSL lines in the UK FTTC rollout accessible to AirPort as generic Ethernet, over which you normally run PPPoE in the usual manner. However, Draytek do in fact make routers, both of the wired and VDSL variety, with many

Re: Startup disk not working.

Nah, this is sadly expected behaviour. The drive is in fact bootable, but the files needed by the OS X boot picker aren’t included. You’ll have to hold the Option key down while starting up your Mac to bring up the firmware boot picker, and then guess; usually just press left then Return will

Re: Irritating mail issue that started with iOS 9

Turn off the control in Settings, Mail, Contacts and Calendars called Contacts Found in Mail. That will stop contacts from being generated from the emails you receive. You might have to clear out your recent history and turn off the similar control in Contacts on OS X as well, if you have that

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

I think they took it out to simplify their product for their target audience. An audit of my network says SNMP isn’t enabled on any of my other stuff. Whether because I couldn’t see the use, because I could already get that information with SSH or UPnP/IGD, or because it was buggy, or perhaps

Re: Irritating mail issue that started with iOS 9

No, I don’t think that’s quite how it works. If the feature is off, you completely lose, again in my understanding, the option of autocompleting names and addresses based on incoming mail. Only outgoing mail would provide the recent names and addresses, using whatever is in your recent list ra

Re: Brows mode equivalent for VO

There is nothing really equivalent to a “Browse Mode” with VoiceOver, which treats web objects like any other. You can use QuickNav, the numpad or the trackpad to make it go somewhat faster and easier than using VO commands, but the closest you’ll get to a fully virtual document is to use arrow

Re: Safari Annoyance in Latest Build

Well, to be fair, ChromeVox would be a better extension if it could actually announce the chrome in Chrome. You’d have to leave aside the fact that using a dedicated screen reader just for your web browser was kind of crazy to start with, but it’s basically the reality on ChromeBooks. -- The

Re: switching calls between devices

I’m much more concerned about the watch and that it uses Bluetooth to send audio from the phone, even where the watch would otherwise have autonomy, for example with FaceTime Audio or Wi-Fi calls. That’s just pants. I sincerely hope they fix that. -- The following information is important fo

Re: Safari Annoyance in Latest Build

On 5 Apr 2016, at 03:01, Kevin Chao wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:21 AM Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: >> Well, to be fair, ChromeVox would be a better extension if it could actually >> announce the chrome in Chrome. > > It's built using web technology (HTML5/JavaS

Re: Apple's 2015 Q4 PC business stats from Gartner

Marginal growth for Macs again. Let’s just hope it’s for the right reasons. Thanks for the link. -- 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 post is

Re: odd but very frustrating problem

Either connect your computer to the Internet using an Ethernet cable, or try changing the wireless channel of your router. It sounds to me very much like interference between the frequencies used by your wireless network and your cordless headset. -- The following information is important for

Re: iDevice names

You can do it in iTunes as well. Interact with the device name near where the battery level is and click, and it becomes an edit field. Now you can change it and press return. Neat. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any quest

Re: El Capitan and VoiceOver.

As of El Capitan 10.11.4, I downgraded to Yosemite 10.10.5. Yosemite has issues, but nothing like the nonsense in El Crap, which Apple are clearly never going to get around to fixing until macOS 12 gets released. Activities and hotspots, which both matter to me, for example, are still buggered

Re: El Capitan and VoiceOver.

If you’re experiencing slowness directly after a completely clean install, try an NVRAM reset. Press Command-Option-P-R and hold them as soon as you hear the chime at boot. Keep held until you hear the chime at least twice in succession. -- The following information is important for all membe

Re: El Capitan and VoiceOver.

You erased your internal drive before doing the install onto it? If so then you’ve got a clean install. If not, don’t forget to do that first with Disk Utility from inside the booted installer environment. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list.

Chrome Support Ended for Mountain Lion and Earlier

Remember, as of 1 April, Chrome is unsupported on Mountain Lion or Earlier, or Windows Vista or earlier. End of an era. Even if it’s all Google’s fault. And Apple’s. And Microsoft’s … -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any qu

Re: El Capitan and VoiceOver.

Well, to be fair, many work environments are quite different to home ones—much stuffier and less fun, with more corporate-administered crap striving hard to make the experience as unpleasant as possible. So, don’t judge Windows entirely on that theory. Indeed, judge it from BootCamp or inside

Re: IOS update

iOS 9.3.1 is the latest official build. -- 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 post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators di

Re: How To Set A VoiceOver Activity for Notification Center info

Nah, they’re hopeless for me as well. It’s the chief reason I downgraded to Yosemite. I notice that they are particularly problematic when web areas (“HTML content”) is involved; maybe that’s the triggering factor, but if so, then it’s particularly unfortunate for someone like me who uses acti

Re: Apple ID And Apple Watch

But you don’t need your Apple ID to reach the stores on your watch. You want the iCloud ID, because that’s the one that handles Handoff and whatnot. It would work (less well, but it would work) without the Apple ID, if you didn’t need any Apple ID exclusives such as Apple Pay. IIRC, anyway.

Re: MacBook or MacBook Air?

Hi Sadam, If I were you, and my choice was limited to just the latest MBA11 and the latest MacBook, then there would be no contest: MBA11. Why? Connectivity. Like the first MacBook Air way back when it was introduced, the connectivity of the MacBook is horribly compromised: just one USB typ

Re: IOS update

Probably too late now, but Settings, General, Profile. Delete the beta profile. That’s all you’ve got to do. If you already installed 9.3.2 then you’ll continue to get updates for it until the release, then you’ll stop. It’s what I did. I’m tired of beta-testing for Apple. Can’t see any poi

Re: Backing up a NAS

Stay calm. Smile in the face of adversity. If you can still access the data on the NAS over the network, what’s wrong with just copying its contents to some other disk? If you don’t have the space, then use an application like Arq to back up to the cloud. You should replace the failed drive,

Re: Backing up a NAS

Arq is a cloud backup tool. It’s available (for purchase) here: https://www.arqbackup.com/ If your NAS is configured for RAID1, which is likely the case for a simple two-disk setup, then all you have to do is find a disk of at least the same size as the other, and replace the failed disk with t

Re: Backing up a NAS

If you already have OneDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3/Glacier, you can use Arq with those; you only need to purchase the app. Once you’ve got yourself back under control, I’d seriously suggest having at least one off-site backup, just in case. Arq is fully accessib

Re: Backing up a NAS

Arq will resume just fine. It only uploads objects that are not already there. It will purge old objects according to your thinning preference, cleanup interval and budget. See the help for full explanations, but it’s basically very much like Time Machine. -- The following information is im

Re: question about clean install of 10.11

If you’re talking about the menu extras in the top right of the screen, then it’s now accessible, yes. This only works if you have a talking recovery environment. It doesn’t work if you are in the Internet Recovery pre-boot environment, which is in firmware and isn’t voiced, sadly. So, yes, a

Exclusive: How Canadian Police Intercept and Read Encrypted BlackBerry Messages | Motherboard

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/rcmp-blackberry-project-clemenza-global-encryption-key-canada Eureka! No wonder they were so bloody shifty when the iOS case came up … Well, now we know why. Be gl

Re: How To Get a List of Available Printers to be Displayed When Adding a New Printer

Most of the “in-box” printer drivers are downloaded on demand now, and aren’t directly included with the OS. First thing I’d do is to check the entire (often quite lengthy) menu of options in the pop-up list, when you first add the printer and before you actually press the Add button in that di

Re: Iphone Se.

My brother sold his 6 Plus to get an SE, too. All about the form factor. Basically just a 5S with fancy new insides and a lot of part reuse. Hope they don’t let it rust like iPod Touch. I’d never go with 64 GB maximum storage, and I’m in any case fine with the 128 GB (I could use more, still

Re: E Mail messages with multi-parts.

No, I think you’re out of luck. Even though Mail uses Webkit to render, it doesn’t seem to expose the full structure to VoiceOver like it does when the message is actually viewed as a web page. This is unlike iOS, where it does work identically. I wish Apple copied more of iOS’s VoiceOver beh

Re: can't get mac to work with micro Sd card

The Stream doesn’t handle XC cards. 32 GB is already the maximum. I think that’s your issue. I can imagine that the stream formats it fine (using NTFS, incidentally, which makes it useless for Macs) but you’ll only be using some of the capacity. Select the card in Disk Utility to see what th

Re: E Mail messages with multi-parts.

I don’t think so. You’d be able to see them, but not skip to them. Best you could do is identify other attributes, like bold or underlining of the adjacent heading, but there doesn’t seem to be anything for skipping directly to a separator. -- The following information is important for all m

Re: can't get mac to work with micro Sd card

You can get 32 GB SD-HC cards very cheaply nowadays, in packs. You might just pick up a pack of them, and simply spread your content over the cards for your Stream. That’s a sure-fire way to make it work, and you don’t have to worry about whether the particular card of a higher capacity might

Re: CNBC announcing that Apple iTunes and iBooks are blocked in China

Immoral? What are you, a dirty socialist *? Them Chinese have the cheapest labour and the happiest, most plentiful consumers on the planet. You got a problem with money, bro? Serves them (Apple) right. It’s a dirty and unfair world, but Apple made the choice to do business with these authori

Re: 19 mb partition, where did it come from?

What does the partition identify as? Is it mounted on your desktop? Maybe it’s a tools partition from the drive manufacturer and you just only now noticed? Anyway, yes, merging should be possible, as long as one of the partitions is destroyed. The space will be added to the big one. -- The

Re: 19 mb partition, where did it come from?

Hmm, weird. The only thing I can think is that you somehow jostled the slider a tiny bit, and ended up with two partitions. Anyway, yeah, just merge. Or better, erase the whole drive and just create a new one that covers the whole thing, if that’s what you want. -- The following information

Re: Is there any way to accept an Outlook Calendar invitation in Mail?

Any attachments in the message? Maybe if you could merge iCalendar events. (Nah, silly me, this is Microsoft we’re talking about, yes?) -- 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,

Re: 19 mb partition, where did it come from?

As always, the best answer is to be found in Terminal. The diskutil command has a number of subcommands related to partitioning. Type “diskutil help” to see them. You should also check the diskutil man page, with “man diskutil|cat”. In your situation I’d create new partitions from scratch wit

Re: Is there any way to accept an Outlook Calendar invitation in Mail?

Well, I was hoping that the attachment would just be an ICS file, which would then open in Calendar. Can’t imagine why this wouldn’t work. Anyway, yeah, really what you want is Mail’s sanctioned banner notification. Perhaps you’ve found that now. Also be aware that Exchange doesn’t follow the

Re: What are the current options for solving a captcha?

You won’t miss the money you spend on Rumola/SkipInput.com. It’s a supported, mainstream option that works, and it’s very cheap indeed. CAPTCHAs are by design not readable by (simple) OCR. So, it’s really not much of a surprise it didn’t work. :) -- The following information is important for a

Re: Downgrading a MacBook Air to Yosemite.

In this case, you can downgrade because the very last MacBook Airs still first came with Yosemite. This one shipped with El Cap, but only because it was newly purchased and comes with the newest OS preinstalled; it can still run Yosemite if you want. (I do, so I understand completely. “macOS”

Re: 19 mb partition, where did it come from?

Hi Andrew, Don’t worry if you miss Terminal output. All you have to do is find the “shell” element, and interact with it. Now you can use standard VO commands to move throughout the scrollback buffer. It is not bounded by the screen, so feel free to use “|cat” in the man command to get the o

Re: Me vs sighted help signing in

This should be an object lesson in why you should never, ever, ever, ever allow your user and iCloud accounts to be linked. Doing so creates a dependency between your Mac and iCloud. That’s just not necessary unless you think you might forget your password some day, and need Apple to help you

Re: How to reset an Apple TV third-generation

You need a micro-USB cable, not supplied (oh, the horror! — Apple). Connect it to your Mac or PC with iTunes, then plug in the power cable and switch on. In a few moments you’ll be presented with the option to do a full wipe of your Apple TV and update to the latest software. -- The followin

Re: how do you use ios?

Nah. I can purr and meow with the best of them. Sadly, no revelations thus far, but it can only be a matter of time. I already know when Tab is saying “Hungry”, “Sleepy”, “Come outside”, “I am happy” and “Leave me alone”. :) -- The following information is important for all members of the Ma

Re: iPhone 7 specs confirmed from a leaked schematic, includes 2 cameras and no iPhone jack

Yeah, I too will settle for an adaptor. All this interest Apple is taking in HD audio is very promising: if it results in a digital pathway for audio, high-end cans with digital input, and an ecosystem of music that hasn’t perished in the great battle to stay glorious despite horrible lossy enc

How Do You Use iOS?

I minimise the number of installed apps. This is mostly so I can easily demand refunds for newly tested apps, rather than what I used to do of impulse-buying and then regretting it much later on when the app is actually needed for something important. It also places the obligation upon me of h

Re: How Do You Use iOS?

Thanks Donna. I’d previously purchased the Delight Games bundle but only now is it accessible. Going to have fun playing these. And One-Button Travel is … well, a bit meh, really. Give it a try—hey, you’ve paid for it—but I probably won’t be keeping this around. Frequency, the Lifeline seri

Re: VMWare Fusion and Sonar?

There are live DVDs that boot without virtual sound hardware muted? Really? I had to go in and manually set up parameters with alsamixer to get the sound output to work at all, as it defaults to silent, rather stupidly. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visi

Re: Reverting to stable release of iOS.

The profile only determines what updates you see. If you’re already on the beta you’ll keep going until the next release. So, either remove the profile before upgrading to a beta release, or else perform a restoration and use a backup made before the beta upgrade. -- The following informatio

Re: A VM snapshot question

Deleting a snapshot won’t reclaim any disk space, it’ll just roll the snapshot’s contents into your main virtual machine image. Maybe you mean you want to revert the snapshot. Anyway, turn off QuickNav and use the cursor key to highlight the snapshot in the Snapshots view. Then press the back

Re: How Do You Use iOS?

AirPort Utility is also very handy as a Wi-Fi scanner, irrespective of whether it’s used to control the excellent Apple devices. You need to enable it in Settings, but once enabled, you can scan for every nearby network and learn its channels, MAC address and RSSI. Good for troubleshooting, an

Re: Special Interest Dictionaries

Dictionaries used by the Dictionary app go in /Library/Dictionaries, as you might expect. Actually, OS X Server does do this; it installs an “Apple dictionary” with lots of Apple-specific terminology, as well as some industry standard terms related to networking. So, yes, if you can find a dic

Re: Has Anyone Gotten Activities to work consistently in El Cap

I downgraded to Yosemite to get activities back. They’re thoroughly broken for me on El Cap. And yes, it was a clean install. Make of that what you will. :) -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the

Re: Has Anyone Gotten Activities to work consistently in El Cap

Depressing, isn’t it? WWDC is just around the corner and apparently OS X—sorry, macOS—will be getting a revamp, so we’ll soon see how much difference a year of bug fixing makes. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions o

Re: A VM snapshot question

Ah, I see, you mean reclaim unused blocks in the VM image itself, not deleting actual data. Yes, you’re right, you must have no snapshots before you can do that. Just select a snapshot with QuickNav off and hit Backspace, and you’ll delete the snapshot. Then reboot the VM, perform any interna

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 followi

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 multi

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 bit

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 po

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 this

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 H

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 app

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 o

Re: Usenet news reader for the Mac

Alas, no. It isn’t a stretch to say that Usenet is obsolete, and the Mac just doesn’t lend itself to it nowadays. Unison 1 was all right. Then Unison 2 came out, and broke what little accessibility the previous version had. And anyway, Unison isn’t really suited as a general-purpose newsread

Re: Safari on iOS not prompting to save passwords anymore

Settings, Safari, Passwords & Autofill. Turn on the switches for the things you want autofilled (I like all of it). You don’t have to use iCloud Keychain (I don’t), but it helps if you have multiple devices and don’t enjoy the tedium of re-entering data. You can get the data across in other w

Re: Router recomendations?

I’m surprised to hear that AirPort is giving you trouble. In my experience they will do upwards of 200 Mb/s. Do you have a connection faster than this? Nowadays, because AirPort has a poor PPPoE implementation that doesn’t do baby jumbo frames or native IPv6, I use my own Linux-powered router

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