Kashmir Hill: If I were suddenly cut off from any of these services, the data loss would be professionally and personally devastating. […] Some of my data landlords were more accommodating than others. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram offered Takeout…
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Lees meerUnder the Radar: Abandoning the CloudKit plan for Overcast in light of new information. He’s still finding the CloudKit Web API to be unreliable. Also, a surprising 10% or so of the app’s users can’t use CloudKit, either because the phone isn’t sign…
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Lees meerMarques Brownlee (via Dave Mark): Google Assistant vs Apple’s Siri vs Amazon Alexa vs Samsung’s Bixby He says that Google Assistant is far ahead and that Alexa is not what it once was. Siri comes in second, but that seems to mainly be due to the iOS…
Lees meerAccidental Tech Podcast: It’s 2022 and we still haven’t solved email, batteries, or sharing files between two computers. Sean Heber: I really hate local network file sharing. It never seems to work right.I setup a folder to share on my mac. My compu…
Lees meertresinnoctem: I use the SMB file sharing system to access files on my MBPro from my iPhone 12, on my local network. Until now, this has been robust, reliable and fast. After updating my MBPro to Ventura 13.0 and my iPhone to iOS 16.1 I cannot connec…
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Lees meerIsaiah Carew: Whoever is in charge of updates, really likes dark patterns.It asks a Yes-or-No question that it does [not] allow you to answer with Yes or No.It doesn’t provide any sort of “snooze” feature -- so non-techy users who might not know how…
Lees meerRob Napier: My first mistake was trying to make it parallel before I pulled out Instruments. Always start by profiling. Do not make systems parallel before you’ve optimized them serially. Sure enough, the biggest bottleneck was random number generat…
Lees meerDan Moren: To the rescue flew the Apple Watch’s Camera app. I’ve probably used this feature a handful of times since the first Apple Watch, and probably not at all since I got my Series 7, and frankly I was blown away with just how much better the e…
Lees meerGeneral If a Save panel opens showing the most recently used folder, clicking Save will instead save to the Documents folder unless I specifically navigate to the already displayed folder manually. Throughout Finder, apps, and the Dock, documents ar…
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