Firefox 62
Mozilla has released Firefox 62. It contains an update to Containers that I've been wanting for a little while. “Reopen in Container” tab menu option appears for users with Containers that lets…
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How to transfer photos from iPhone to Windows 10
Occasionally I will have need to transfer photos from Eliza's iPhone X to my Windows 10 laptop. I've found the process of transferring the photos to be excruciatingly slow, unreliable, and frustrating….
Joel Embiid writing about me
Joel Embiid, Center for the Philadelphia 76ers: Listen, I know it’s a stereotype, but have you ever seen a normal, 30-year-old white guy shoot a three-pointer? That elbow is tucked, man. The…
Leo Laporte leaves Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook
Leo Laporte: Yesterday I deactivated my Twitter account and kicked Tumblr to the curb. A couple of weeks ago I did the same with Instagram. A month or so before that I…
Palmer Lucky on Magic Leap
Palmer Lucky, co-founder of Oculus (no longer with the company): The product they put out is reasonably solid, but is nowhere close to what they had hyped up, and has several flaws…
Back on a different Mastodon instance
Longtime readers of my blog will know that I was on Mastodon and then didn't log back in for a long time. My first instance (mastodon.cloud) was sold? or was given? to…
Photos for Mac isn’t a long term photo library option
Bradley Chambers, writing for 9to5Mac, about his photo library backup strategy: If there is one thing I am obsessed with when it comes to technology, it’s my pictures. I keep them extremely…
Real Twitter
Over the weekend Andy Baio tweeted a URL to a search result that shows Twitter the way it used to be: This magical link shows your Twitter timeline in true chronological order—without…
Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
👉 Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
Keeping a record of your thoughts and media and owning it
Go ahead and read Matt Haughey's post on why he left Twitter. But I wanted to pull out this bit: I didn’t like that everything I wrote ended up being hard to…
Matt Haughey on the mobile WordPress app
Matt Haughey vents his frustrations with WordPress: Over the past week I’ve written a bunch of posts while out and about using the iOS WordPress app, often with photos of things I…
Learn 1Password
Shawn Blanc, writing at The Sweet Setup: Learn 1Password will be a deep dive on one of our most irreplaceable apps. We’ll show you how 1Password works, and we’ll go through all…
Things about Windows 10 #2: Moving non-existent windows
Well, I had said I'd try to keep this series positive but every now and then you run up against a problem. It turns out Windows 10 is fairly terrible at remembering…
Magic Leap hype
First line in this Wired piece about the Magic Leap One: In retrospect, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz realizes that all the hype was a big mistake. “I think we were arrogant,”…
Magic Leap One Creator Edition
Adi Robertson for The Verge: But the Magic Leap One’s 50-degree diagonal field of view, while larger than the competing Microsoft HoloLens, is still extremely limited. And the image quality feels roughly…
Colin Walker takes a break (so I will too)
Colin Walker: I'm not going to be blogging much – maybe the occasional post but nothing regular. I'm going to remove my feed from micro.blog for the time being so that I'm…
Kayaking to Bannerman’s Castle on the Hudson River – July 2018
Kayaking to Bannerman's Castle on the Hudson River – July 2018 Eliza and I paddled on the Hudson River to a long abandoned arsenal castle. It was a great day.
Things about Windows 10 #1: Task Bar Previews
There is so much blogger coverage for Apple’s hardware and software products that I feel there needs to be a few more in the Microsoft and Google world. To that end I’m…
Windows 10’s tablet mode needs work
Zac Bowden: A good tablet is about more than just good hardware, you need a good OS experience to go along with it. Unfortunately, Windows 10 doesn't have a good tablet experience…
My checklist for setting up Windows 10
Once I had decided to switch from macOS to Windows 10 I knew that I would need to unlearn old tricks and learn some new ones. The oddest one that can only…
Laura Kalbag on blogging
Laura Kalbag: When I wrote about owning and controlling my own content, I talked about trying to keep my “content” in its canonical location on my site, and then syndicating it to…
Xamarin.Forms 3.1
David Ortinau on the Xamarin Blog: Earlier this year, we surveyed Xamarin.Forms developers about the kinds of custom controls and extra platform code being written repeatedly that should be considered for support…
Still working through my new photo library, syncing, back-up strategy but I believe I'll have a much better solution than Apple provided me when I'm finished. And, of course, I'll document it…
My clipboard managers: 1Clipboard & Clip Stack
I use two clipboard managers currently. On Windows 10 I use 1Clipboard: A universal clipboard managing app that makes it easy to access your clipboard from anywhere on any device. It says…
Spotify vs. Apple Music
Sean Wolfe, compares Spotify vs. Apple Music for Business Insider: The subscription prices are generally the same, there isn't much disparity in the music that's available, and on the surface the services…
If you share Google Calendars and want them to show up in Windows 10's calendar app, this is the tip you need.
My opinion of Microsoft Surface, 6 years later
Me, in 2012, writing about the first time I saw a Surface device: I could have played with it longer. But I wouldn’t want to. The Surface is terrible. Even if you’ve…
What I saw this week #52: July 13, 2018
More accurately, what I've seen somewhat lately. I've been off my blogging game lately as I'm making the switch from Mac to Windows. So I'm busy moving photo libraries, installing apps and…
My experience buying a Windows laptop
After 16+ years working, writing, playing, making, listening, watching on a Macintosh, I'm switching back to Windows. Within a few days from today I will no longer be a Mac user. In…
My half-written draft on how I chose a Windows computer needs to be finished and published. I need to find the time this week.