Link. Why we need organized pressure on brands.
Monthly Archives: August 2017
iMessage power over US teens.
Link. My daughter.
Apple is killing Touch ID
My iPad now wants my password every other access. WTF is Apple doing?!
Apple’s global market problem: Israel edition.
Link. Price.
Transmit 5 review.
Link. Describes value well.
How to calm a super volcano.
Link. Energy into electricity.
“there will no longer be a way to download iTunes U course materials on a Mac”
Link. ePub support ends any platform.
Voyager’s pulsar-based map to Earth is worthless.
Link. Alien archeologists will be disappointed.
Blackstone’s corruption is extremely popular.
Link. Saudi royalty devoted to Trump.
Maureen Dowd writes a grown-up column.
Link. Can’t be her. Completely unlike her writing.
“Kennedy Center appeared grateful that the Trumps were skipping the ceremony”
Link. No shit.
Nati insider on T’s “fine people”: “the most important moment in the history of the modern white nationalist movement.”
Link. Must read.
PasswordWallet – bought it, deleted it.
PasswordWallet looked like a good alternative to 1Password. Michael Tsai likes it — and he has great taste.
Bought it on App Store and installed Mac and iOS versions. It wasn’t easy to get the sync working, but once it worked it seemed reliable. UI unpolished, but workable. I liked the ability to handle multiple vaults.
Looked good, until one day I searched for a record and got nothing. My jaw dropped.
Sure enough Selznick Scientific only implemented basic string search — the default SQL function. There’s no ‘word starts with’ search. A search for “green red” does not find a record with the title “green yellow red”. Search is basically one string at a time. That does not scale to my hundreds of passwords. It’s only good for numbers so small you could get away with an encrypted document.
Deleted.
This is why I prefer to download apps with In App purchasing. I can discover fatal flaws like this before I buy.
MSFT claims Bing 35% share.
Link. On some (all?) US gov PC is unchangeable IE default.
Klan, Council of Conservative Citizens, League of the South: Nati 2017
Link. Trashing the defenders of slaver statues – from the far right.
Boston Natis: ” starved by an enormous buffer zone”
Link. Boston police set the standard.
“61 percent say they cannot see Mr. Trump doing anything that would make them disapprove of him.”
Link. 24% of voters.
Google Maps stuck on preview
Link. I get this bug now with bike routes. Really obnoxious.
“One day was enough to get a feel for Bumba, but Primus I stayed for three”
Link. Mad professor retraces Conrad’s Congo travel. Must read.
Cops Can Force You to Unlock Your Phone With Your Fingerprint, but Not Your Passcode
Link. Power off.
Tarzan at the Earth’s Core.
Link. I think I missed this one.
“nonviolent resistance was more than twice as effective as violent resistance in achieving change.”
Link. Antifa wrong on principle – but also ineffective.
ACLU Will No Longer Defend Hate Groups Protesting With Firearms.
Link. Excellent compromise.
Canon SL2 – handheld night scene and HDR
This is new since my T2i, I think maybe was T5i. The entry-level Canon dSLR includes some computational photography with HDR mode and 4 shot handheld low light photography. The 4 shot is marketed for night scenes, but there are interesting effects with indoor low light photography (just don’t blink).
Can’t compare to the wizardry of an iPhone 7, but there are some interesting effects there.
Teen suicide: glamor, guns and the despicable 13 reasons.
Link. I walked out of Dead Poets Society.
Rural suicide rate – it’s gun access.
Link. Same reason Vet rate higher, esp women.
The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking
Link. More money in selling exploits.
ACLU free speech theory runs into the Nati.
Link. Reality hits.
Trump supporters finally falling out.
Link. Resignation pressure building?
Hispanic caucus reacts to Trump/Price sabotage of ObamaCare enrollment.
Link. A caucus with work aplenty.
Apple blogger: “The President of the United States is an angry, resentful white supremacist.”
Link. Maybe America realizing what we married?
Trump meltdown continues.
Link. Nati grow embarassed by his support.
ffmpeg: “take nearly any form of audio or video media and convert it to almost any other form”
Link. Essential.
South Korea on war prospects: “hoping to get a trip to Guam”
Link. Accustomed to raving lunatic leaders.
OCR for Mac: Google Drive, open as Google Doc.
Link. Native macOS apps $100, iOS much cheaper. Google slow but effective.
Outlook: “Mac support of Google Calendar and Contacts … available to all users worldwide later this year”
Link. That will be useful.
“Outlook for Mac does not support Apple iCloud calendar (CalDAV) and contact (CardDAV) synchronization”
Link. Same Google. I’d hoped it could be translation hub; alas, no joy.
Black Voices in Charlottesville.
Link. His black voters remain loyal.
Alibaba valuation joins Facebook and Amazon.
Link. Tencent similar. Settling counterfeit suits.
GOP Congress won’t jump ship: “Trump’s approval among Republicans in the high 70s”
Link. Sailed a long way, water icy cold.
Sperm counts.
Link. Less sexual competition? Reduced stress? Might be physiologic.
“George W. Bush would have been at the funeral for the slain civil rights demonstrator in a second”
Link. That is true.
Latest Trump diagnosis: Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
Link. Needs guanfacine.
John Dowd, leader of the president’s legal team, mirrors white nationalist.
Link. Trump same.
Outlook Mac can read PST files and output VCF contacts.
Drag and drop to desktop then drag and drop to Mac Contacts.app.
Bannon: “There’s no military solution [to North Korea’s nuclear threats], forget it”
Link. Have to read.
Google Docs adds more collaborative editing tools.
Link.
Making things: 10 customer lessons.
Link. Yes.
Scalzi – fiction defeated by fact.
Link. Stross has blogged similarly on U.K.
CEOs leave Trump.
Link. Frazier led way to exit.