Appleinsider on Thunderbolt 5 vs Thunderbolt 4
From Malcolm Owen at AppleInsider.
This is exciting, especially for faster monitors, I just hope it works better with more devices and hubs! I have a hub per bus already and could use more ports!
Cut/Daily #389 – Is The Vision Pro the Future of Editing?
I can honestly say I would love it if it was lighter, and now that it can do 2 4k screens, though I would likely need 3, and at current resolution I am not sure that would work. I would say once it is in my normal glasses, and maybe in conjunction with my screens?
Rocket Yard on Speeddock for Mac a successor to DragThing
From Krishna Sadasivarm at OWC’s Rocket Yard Blog.
I used to use DragThing back in the day, but it has been ages since I even thought about it. It does seem more powerful than Mac’s current dock, though I am jot sure I want to spend the time to play. Hmm.
A Better Finder Rename has reached version 12
A Better Finder Rename has reached version 12.
I so love this software, I have owned it for years, and use it all the time. I don’t know how people live without it honestly.
9to5Mac on Haldide creators turning iPad into HDMI monitor with Orion app and a capture
From Zac Hall at 9to5Mac.
Check out the Orion App.
Amazing how cheaply you can turn you iPad into a an HDMI monitor for on set work. THIS IS DAMN AWESOME! And the app is free (or $5 upgrade for all features including 4K).
Why is Mac sync to iPhone so damn bad and so damn slow!
I have been syncing my mac to the iphone since the iphone first came out, and the problem is that it has never gotten better. I sync a bunch of live music that isn’t available on streaming, so I sync to my computer Iplus it means my phone is backed up with passwords so if I restore I get my full working phone, which people on iCloud do not, they have to re-enter all passwords), but the actual sync is so awful.
First off unless you turn cellular, wifi and bluetooth off, the sync takes forever, but if you turn it off it is very quick, we are talking muti-hour sync vs 30 minute sync so it is huge. Why can’t apple fix this? Obviously they don’t care at all.
I hate having to do workarounds, but syncing my iphone with my mac via lightning cable means I have to switch my phone to airplane mode and that is fucking bullshit! If Airplane mode fixes the issue, then Apple could easily fix it, and they don’t care, as they do not want you to backup locally or put your own music on your iPhone.
DIYPhotography on Apple’s AI text-based photo editor
From Alex Baker at DIYPhotography. This is about MGIE or Multimodal Large Language Model Guided Image Editing, which is for text based image editing. It is currently an open source project, but adding this to Siri on an iphone could be very powerful, and a huge deal for AI and iPhone.
Any One Else get locked out of their Apple Accounts yesterday or today?
Was watching a movie on my apple tv yesterday, when I git kicked out of my Apple account, on all of my devices. My Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and it fought me on entering my correct passwords, then said my account was locked, and I had to change my password, then re-enter it on each device (ever try and enter a long password on an Apple Watch? My account is an old .Mac account, but my password is only 6 months old.
I was glad to see I am not the only one having this issue, check out Macrumors, Forbes, Gizchina, and Engadget,
Stu Maschwitz’s new iphone 15 ProRES LUTs in Peru and Tawian
And you can read about and see photos at Stu’s Prolost site.
OWC’s Rocketyard on how to make Finder search current folder by default
From Dennis Sellers at OWC, I have to admit I kbew how to do this but never had, but after trying it out for a while I ended uo sticking with it as my default search behavior.