Jeremy Burge, before diving into the numerous ways in which Apple’s emoji search on the Mac is pretty broken:
I’ve been aware of this for quite some time, but until recently haven’t sat down to figure out what’s going on.
His blog post is full of examples, but this is a pretty damning one:
To find Person Facepalming you can’t type “facepalm” or “palm” but instead need to type “face palm.”
I can’t blockquote any of this amazing article by my dear friend.
If you haven’t read it, take some time this evening with an iPad and do it. It’s a beautiful and raw piece about his life as a cancer survivor, and how he keeps tabs on his health today, years after a terrifying diagnosis.
This week on Connected, Myke and Federico talk about Spark 2, Castro 3, and Ticci’s big article about his Second Life.
I missed the recording today, but am looking forward to listening to this tonight.
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Here’s a bit of numerology for you. Today marks 17 years, one month, and 29 days since Mac OS X 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001. That’s a strangely odd number—6269 days—but it also happens to be the exactly length of time between January 24, 1984 (the launch of the original Macintosh) and March 24, 2001.
In other words, today the Mac’s second operating system era, powered by Mac OS X (now macOS) has been in existence as long as the first era was.
Ren talks about how to manage Photos libraries on external drives, then Stephen walks through how he makes his YouTube videos before they jump into a bunch of topics in the Speed Run.
I had a lot of fun on this one. My thanks to our sponsors:
Jason talks about launching from the west coast of the United States, then Stephen takes the new SLS SEGMENT out for a spin before they discuss black holes.
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From 1888–1891, an unknown assailant killed five women in the East End of London, going down in history was one of the world’s most famous serial killers.
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The Power Mac G4 SuperDrive Firmware Update 1.0 application installs new firmware on the SuperDrive which addresses an incompatibility with 4x DVD-R and 2x DVD-RW media, and the 2x SuperDrive in the Power Mac G4. You must perform this update if you intend to use 4x DVD-R or 2x DVD-RW media in your Power Mac G4. This update also enables you to eject audio CDs that are copy-protected or have mastering errors. This update is required only for the Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio), the Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver) and the Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) with an internal Apple SuperDrive.
Yours truly, over on MacStories:
For almost five years, the heart of the Power Mac was the PowerPC G4 chip. Starting in 1999 it clocked at just 350 MHz, but by the time the Power Mac G4 line was retired, a tower with dual 1.42 GHz CPUs could be ordered. In that time frame, things like Gigabit Ethernet, SuperDrives, and Wi-Fi became mainstream.
The Power Mac G4 came in three distinct cases over the years it was available. Each style of machine saw several revisions while in service, bringing the total number of models to 10. That’s a lot of computers to cover, so let’s get started.
There’s a new version of the podcast player Castro out today, with lots of goodies.
Ryan Christoffel at MacStories has more:
If an absent feature ever kept you from sticking with Castro 2, that almost certainly won’t be a problem anymore. Castro 3 addresses nearly all of those “one missing feature” requests in a single release. Trim Silence is Castro’s take on Overcast’s Smart Speed; full chapter support is now present, as is a new Apple Watch app; the player screen has been fully redesigned; Mix to Mono improves stereo mixes that are hard to hear; and finally, there are excellent new per-podcast controls in a variety of areas. Perhaps the only thing still missing is an iPad app.
A user on r/VintageApple has posted a real treat:
A retiree in my area sold me his original 1984 Macintosh - with unused transport bag! - for $200. I’ve always wanted to own one, so I was thrilled to learn that he took excellent care of his Mac and kept pretty much everything that came in the original box… except the manuals. (“It’s a Mac, who needs the manuals?“). I decided to document the unboxing, because I have never seen an original Mac unboxing posted online. I also took some shots of product and packaging details that I found particularly striking.
AirPort base stations are beginning to sell out or disappear entirely from Apple’s online and retail stores in select countries, a few weeks after Apple announced it has discontinued the lineup of routers.
The first casualty is the AirPort Extreme, now listed as “sold out” on Apple’s online store in the United States, and unavailable for pickup at Apple’s retail stores across the country. The base station remains available in limited quantities in select other countries, including Australia, Canada, Japan, and Singapore.