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).
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.
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.
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,
And you can read about and see photos at Stu’s Prolost site.
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.
From Chip Loder at AppleInsider. I have to admit I had no idea this was even possible.
From Amber Neeley at AppleInsider.
Yes yes yes! We need to save Firefox which I still find the best and most customizeable browser. And Apple, Google and Microsoft all push their in house browsers over it, which has decimated it’s market share.
I have previously posted about how Apple removed Album Artwork from it’s playlist creation (it used to add 4 album covers) and you have to manually add it, but this post from MUD or Make Use Of has a solution that is an improvement on the album artwork.
This is the shortcut the Playlist Cover Art Generator, which you can customize to show 4 to 47 covers and have text as well. You have to allow private scripts and large datasets, but it works fast and well.
Here is one I created for my 1971-1972 playlist.
Another useful article from the great Larry Jordan.