Real bummer but no one was able to figure out what was going on with my 2015 13” MacBook Pro. I suspect it was the I/O board because using the trackpad would cause the WIFI to drop intermittently. Rather than shell out the ~$500 to have the MacBook fixed I am trading it in for…

My meditation practice has been pretty consistent for the past several months. The payoff is that I am more frequently aware of when I am aware of what I am thinking vs. lost in thought. Being lost in thought isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But if ever there was a “dose is the poison” example,…

I picked up one of these dingus dongles at Best Buy this AM (same price as Amazon, $79) so that I could turn my iPad Pro into a little recording studio device/multitrack recorder in my office. Specifically so I could turn my aging by serviceable Zoom H4n into an external microphone for GarageBand. HyperDrive USB…

BestBuy has an early Black Friday special up today, $200 for the Apple HomePod. One of these is nice, but a stereo pair is a very listenable alternative to a full-blown stereo system. I’ve got a pair in our living room and I love them. A pair is about 10x better than a single HomePod…

I’ve noticed, annoyingly, that when I send a message on my iPad it’s not always showing up on my phone and vice versa (especially when sending to non-iPhone users). This, despite the fact that in Settings->Messages both devices are using the same Apple user account. Turns out the problem is that both devices also need…

Man, those annoying video loops that Spotify added are distracting as hell. Annoying to the point that I turn off my screen whenever they appear. Just figured out how to disable them. The feature to disable is called “Canvas.” Instructions here.

It’s been a couple of weeks now with the iPad Pro and I’m still struggling to understand gestures. I never use my iPad without an external keyboard and have quickly become adept at most of the useful key combinations to navigate iOS. And to be clear, iOS is pretty keyboard accessible. As someone who has…

My Spotify account got hacked the other day. I was using a really insecure password that was identical to that of another login I used from a site that had been compromised. So either someone guessed it or “acquired” it. Either way, I know it got hacked because at 5:15AM yesterday morning I was listening…

Taxi, New York, 1957 © Saul Leiter Convalescing from a head cold last night I watched 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter. Leiter shot some amazing sort-of-abstract, i don’t know what to call it exactly, photos in NYC from the 1950’s onward. I had never heard of him before (not surprising since I could…