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Author Archives: jgordon
“every accessory made for the iPad mini 4 will work on the fifth-generation iPad mini”
Link. For once!
“rough weather to evacuate hundreds of people one by one by helicopter.”
Link. 400 rescues in a storm?! Those pilots are both good and lucky.
Digital archiving guidance: photo and video.
Link. Recommended by a net friend.
Early da Vinci: “first surfaced in an apothecary’s shop in Günzburg, in Bavaria, Germany.”
Link. Great introduction.
“Apple intends releasing its first Macs incorporating its own ARM-based processors in, say, 2020, wouldn’t it be probable that those initial models would again be the iMac and MacBook Pro?”
Link. Yes.
50,000 Repair Guides Now on iFix
Link. Kudos.
Converting my old video formats to something that might persist
Link. ProRes? HEVC someday? H265 more like.
A Simple, Open-Source URL Shortener
Link. I will ask if DreamHost can add this.
Mastodon lives.
Link. Twitter’s anti-vaxxer support renews my interest.
Replacing Sierra’s “All My Files” in Mojave
Link. Use ‘.’ as search criteria.
‘All My Files’ was removed in High Sierra.
Link. I skipped to Mojave and just noticed today that it was gone. Too bad…
AirPod battery life: “headphone jack is looking a lot better now in hindsight”
Link. What a bloody waste.
Spotlight supports search by codec
Link. One way to identify files that need conversion.
Apple is killing QuickTime 7 in macOS 10.15
Link. 32 bit codecs. Hope someone does utility that searches file system
Apple recommendations for converting video unsupported post Mojave.
Link. “… early Flip Video cameras that use the 3ivx codec, early web videos encoded with the Sorenson codec, and media converted from DVD to the DivX format.” Compressor costs $50, gives best results.
MarsEdit 4.3.
Link. I’m a fan. Even though Google broke image upload text only Blogger support continues
“last stand for ISIS took place in the village of Baghouz”
Link. Good.
Swag Surfin’
Link. Resist the GOP.
“President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary”
Link. N-dimensional chess.
“78 percent of Republicans who watch Fox News believe Trump has accomplished more than any other president in history”
Link. Murdoch’s Idiocracy.
Seeing inside PDF with Podofyllin
Link. I’m gonna buy this when its ready.
Safari extensions: “StopTheMadness, which fixes all those blocked features, and Better, which protects my privacy from trackers.”
Link. I hear and obey.
Google “pays” EU fine in a few hours of share price bump.
Link. Fines would need to be 100 billion to matter.
The only way to fix the EHR …
… is to pay physicians by the hour.
“chances of the Apple Watch detecting undiagnosed atrial fibrillation in this study were lower than the chance of a person being struck by lightning during their lifetime (0.03%)!”
Link. Time to rethink FDA approval?
Trump weekend tweets.
Link. We live in two cultures. The minority culture has disparate values but a shared belief in reason and science. The majority culture runs on feeling, impulse, and personal experience.
Trump is of the majority.
Jenny McCarthy’s scam autism business – Generation Rescue.
Link. Neurocognitive disorders are common in relatives of persons with autism diagnosis.
Instagram new home of right wing ravings and delusions.
Link. So many vulnerable people.
“Cambrian Period, representing 101 species so far, over half of which have never been described before.”
Link. China.
Beyond voodoo – Trumponomics.
Link. They drink a lot. l
Trump is a boon for Huawei.
Link. Everyone despises Trump, so by warning against Huawei he makes their case.
Confronting a Driver from Your Bike Is Never Worth It.
Link. It does nothing to make them better and it leaves you feeling worse.
Nunes And The Peter Thiel Era
Link. I hadn’t understood why i had to follow the cow.
Why you don’t need to scrub your hard drive: “Data leakage/extraction is so common that it has driven down the cost of the data itself”
Link. OTOH, my Vanguard password might be worth something.
“36 percent of Catholics” approve of Trump.
Link. Vs 50% Protestants. More Hispanic certainly, maybe more college.
America’s Emergent National DNA Database.
Link. Expected ending, unexpected path.
“base model iMac is simply not a good product and should be purchased by nobody”
Link. Exists to anchor pricing.
NYT on “replacement theory” and anti-feminism.
Link. Extraordinarily unattractive hopeless white men.
Spinning GDP.
Link. Sigh.
Pompeii state Dept: “Officials would not answer questions about whether a range of faiths was included.”
Link. Let a thousand lawsuits bloom.
Dead Google products – timeline.
Link. Around 2010 I stopped adopting Google products. Too many good things killed.
Managing human awfulness: NZ video edition.
Link. The key is disabling discovery while purging content.
Electronic consultation of specialists.
Link. Big advantage for employed clinician systems like Mayo & VA.
Concise Summary of primary care medical practice updates
Link. Scan these and see what’s new this year. Short and well done.
APFS – an Apple success story.
Link. I skipped High Sierra so never saw any issues.
GOP demonization of Joe Biden starts now.
Link. Second coming of the Antichrist.
Cannabis legalization – views of an elder economist.
Link. Lotterman doesn’t seem interested in a larger audience.
2015 death of Russian FBI informant looks like a hit.
Link. Only distant Trump connection so far.
Resize APFS disk images: hdiutil not Disk Utility
Link. Bug rather than missing feature because error message