Author: sjwillis
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MacBook Pro Retina 13″ Early-2015 wifi problems
I think my airport card in my MacBook is dying. Making some notes here in case I find a software fix. Wifi problems seem very common with this model laptop especially post-Yosemite but my wifi issues have been very sporadic until now. Now, whenever my CPU spikes my wifi drops. Stinks. This, I think is…
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Excellent article on a small city’s car-free transformation
Spain’s Happy Little Carless City Pontevedra, once choked with cars, is a laboratory for how smaller cities can implement a few simple tricks to reduce driving dramatically. Many great points here including: free parking at perimeter of city make streets for walking (get rid of sidewalks) small, incremental steps My hope is that one day…
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Catalina Inbox not Syncing with Gmail
Good to know I’m not the only one, but I don’t think the issue that I’m having is widespread which makes me nervous! The gmail IMAP inbox on my Mac running catalina bears ZERO resemblance to the inbox I see on my iphone or in gmail thorugh the web browser. Frightening. And still AAPL is…
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Catalina
Upgrading my MacBook Pro, the Catalina upgrade hung up on “Setting up computer…” but as I had already looked into that issue for a buddy of mine the other day, I know that’a a widespread problem so I just rebooted and it everything came up fine. Was a bit of a bummer that Scrivener 2…
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Fingers crossed on this Spotify update for iOS
I’ve been seeing references to the latest beta of Spotify on reddit where users report that Siri support now works with Spotify. This will be great if it works well! I have been loving my stereo homepods but am itching for better automation/shortcuts and Siri integration and have been using my iTunes library to play…
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Microsoft Outlook on Mac.
Been using this for work lately. Crashes pretty regularly which I could live with if it would only support emacs keybindings like Mail.app does (ctrl-a for start of line, ctrl-e for end of line). Very frustrating!
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HomePod with iTunes Match
I’m running stereo HomePods in our living room. Boy what a difference a second HomePod makes! Doesn’t sound as good as my beloved Vandersteens which got relocated during a recent furniture rearrangement and frankly the Homepods don’t make for great “active listening” because the imaging is way to fuzzy and nebulous but for just hanging…
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Bose warranty = awesome/great customer service
A big part of the sound of Kül d’Sack (one of the bands I play in) is our Bose L1 paired with the Bose Tonematch mixer. The prebaked digital modeling settings for Shure microphones is just great on these Bose devices. The sound quality is uncannily good. Unfortunately a few gigs back one of the…
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WTF? Why does iMessage search suck so bad.
Can’t find a message that I JUST FRICKIN’ SENT a few days ago! Let’s try Googling: Well, I’m not the only one! The inability to use the Messages app on the Mac to search message history is really a nuisance. That, and I’m noticing Spotlight search in general seems to really be crappy lately. I…
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Grove Collaborative
We use Amazon’s Subscribe and Save for monthly deliveries of household stuff like garbage bags, cleaners, etc. This month though I did some Googling while reviewing our deliveries and found that Grove Collaborative was cheaper on a few products. Just placed an order, we’ll see. They are a B Corp which makes me feel a…