MacRumors on screen flicker on Tahoe with Studio Displays

MacRumors on Tahoe screen flicker with Studio Displays. Of course I am on Sequoia, and I have 3rd party monitors and it happens to me randomly all the time. It does seem to happen with switching apps though. I have an M2 Ultra Studio with 2 external Displays and one is on the hdmi port and 1 is usb c, so I think it has to do with the using different ports. It only happens on one monitor for me, but with me doing full time care for our 18 month old I haven’t had time to try and fix it.

I bought an iPhone 17 Pro to upgrade from my iPhone 14 Pro, what a nightmare it has been trying to move from one phone to another

I was excited by the new cameras of the iPhone 17 Pro, so I was pretty excited to move over, but the move so far has been a nightmare. First off I use a local backup of my phone as it saves passwords and is much faster than the cloud, but boy it has been anything but quick. First I had to enter all my info on the phone and sign into iCloud, and then to restore from computer I had to wipe the phone with a restore (which took hours) and I was hoping it would then sync, but then I had to enter all my info again, and then the sync from the computer started. After a 12 hour backup, this took a good part of the morning, and then hung with about 500 songs to go (out of about 15,000). And every time the sync screwed up or something I had to restart my computer to get another one started, which would be fine if my finder wasn't unresponsive for 5-10 minutes almost every restart (though not every one), I think it is because I have so many hard drives attached for editing. So the sync failed and I restarted to see if I could finish, but every playlist had just a few songs, which wasn't the case this morning. And when I removed all the files (with another sync) trying to put them back was only with 4000, songs instead of 15000. This took hours to figure out, but it had corrupted my Apple Music library, and I had to go back a day and recover the library file to regain all my playlists! How did that even happen? So here I am on day 2 of my new iPhone. I have had it for 24 hours, and it is once again syncing my music. And I left about 10 playlists out so I can sync them later so they can show up at the top (my most recent albums) sync I can't favorite playlists without activating iTunes Sync which I will never try again after it almost wiped out my entire iTunes music library years back! This is a fucking Nightmare!

I am glad I am not the only one who will never get over Marvel dissolving Spiderman’s marriage to MJ

Screenrant’s October 26th, 2025 article, 10 Reasons Marvel Fans Can’t Let Go Of Spider-Man’s Marriage To Mary Jane And Comicbook from June 3rd, 2025, Can Marvel Ever Really Fix Spider-Man After One More Day? Created with Google Gemini and Nano Bananna They were married for over 20 years and it was so much growth for Spiderman and just to have it all erased has always bothered me, but not as much as Peter’s dating life since then. Now I know Marvel didn’t want to do it to begin with, but were forced into it by Stan Lee, doing it in newspapers, but it was so good! And they have Miles Morales to have a single Spiderman. And to have them married In the current new ultimate storyline is not enough, because it is so not the ultimate Spider-Man story, but instead married Peter shoved in an ultimate storyline. A little morsel to tantalize fans who want it, but we want Earth 616 restored to before A Brand New Day.

PVC’s Premiere Pro Tool Tip Tuesday

https://www.provideocoalition.com/premiere-pro-hunt-down-unused-clips/ Certainly a useful tip though honestly something that adobe could make more useful.

MacRumors tested if turning off transparency on iOS 26 save battery life

Juli Clover at MacRumors ran the tests . iOS 26 with reduced transparency and increase contrast on I am quite surprised by the results, but I wonder if it means that the reduce transparency settings are being added on top of the transparency, because it makes no senses that removing the transparency doesn’t increase battery life. It is graphically intense and on my phone constantly glitches and has to redraw. And here is the same glitch I have been getting with transparency with it all turned off. So I think the transparency is being rendered then covered, so that is why it doesn’t save memory by turning it off, even if everything is easier to see with the transparency turned off. And not just switching Liquid Glass to Tinted, but accessibility to Reduce Transparency.

iOS and iPad OS 26 have the worst battery life ever

And I can definitely say just how bad it is because my iPad Pro M2 was replaced after screen issues 3 months ago so it has a basically brand new battery, and I had my battery replaced in my iPhone 14 Pro not a month ago (and they exploded my phone so I have a replacement). After upgrading to version 26 I thought it was bad at first, but I have literally such worse battery life than I did with my phone which was down to 80% efficiency on the battery! Without walking and using the GPS my phone is down to 30 percent by 3:47 PM! And this happens every day! And my iPad Pro with almost no use is down to 70 when with the old battery would have been at 96%.. And I am sure half of it is from the awful transparency that makes everything look illegible, and constantly glitches and takes a while to redraw as most things show up transparent. And hopefully 26.1 which will allow you to limit transparency will bring some efficiency back, but likely this is mostly bad coding! My pet peace’s in an OS are making things less efficient (more steps to do the same things),, less legible (say with transparency, and running slower with each OS release! And these OS’s do all of these in spades!

Why’s new in Adobe Premiere Pro September 2025 (25.5)

I am a little late posting about this update, as I don’t get much chance to actually sit in front of my computer since I am taking care of my toddler 24-7! But here is Adobe on Premiere Pro 25.5. 90+ Modern realtime effects and transitions! This is so big as Premiere’s transitions have been sorely lacking for some time! In fact so few have been added in ages that this is just huge news! I hope adobe goes out and buys some more effects packages! New Animation Tools is really more from the above, Faster More Precise Editing! Live audio waveforms is another big one as this has been sorely lacking in Premiere and a speciality of DaVinci. Let’s just hope they have fixed all the bugs with waveforms disappearing as this has been a frustration for well over 10 years that they have never dealt with! Listening to editors, improving every cut! Sequence color tabs provide visual indicators for better organization. Improvements to the Effect Controls panel make keyframing more predictable. New preferences for default fonts for text and captions. New keyboard commands to toggle track mute and solo based on targeting. Search for Adobe Stock media from the File menu. New support for 16-bit PNG images to support newer HDR finishing workflows that require high-bit-depth media. Improved data range and color metadata handling for DNxHR, DNxHD, and PNG.Completely rewritten support for MKV. All great and let’s hope it continues! I would love more focus on fixing problems and lesson new features overall. Let’s hope Adobe really is listening’

createscifi on DIY making a sci-if control panel

https://youtu.be/45edunJbANg?si=xHBcxZGaxiVaUrLf https://youtu.be/9Lbb82n_KXI?si=ZzY3gwVrNJSg7J_g https://youtu.be/QX11Q5rI-HM?si=yggas2JVLHKQS54G I have made one myself and a spaceship though we had to destroy it before filming to make way for a new porch and a baby. And I don’t have a laser cutter, though I do have a 3d printer, and am still making stuff for my spaceship. I need to watch more videos from Create Sci-Fi for sure!

DaVinci Resolve 20.2.2 has a new fix for Mac Gamma shift issue with Rec 709 (Scene) from Creative Video Tips

If only Apple would work on this issue, and Adobe as well. Sure DaVinci previously could do this with Rec 709a, but rec 709 (scene) should do a better job. https://youtu.be/Fcej7hDihW8?si=Bd_-xBChSs6gbywb And the fact that it does ColorSync and the correct gamma tags is awesome! And if you aren’t subscribed to Chadwick’s Creative Video Tips? What are you doing?