Tag Archives: Apple

This Is Tech Journalism

Even casual readers know that Irreal holds a generally dim view of journalists. But this isn’t another post about their bias and ignorance of their subject matter. This is a post about silliness masquerading as serious journalism. It’s about writing … Continue reading

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Sudo by Touch ID on Macs

This post is just a quickie for those of you using a Mac with Touch ID. My latest MacBook Pro has Touch ID and I was surprised at how much I like and use it. It’s especially handy for 1Passowrd … Continue reading

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An Advantage of Emacs Centrism

The technical side of the Internet is all atwitter about macOS suddenly refusing to launch non-Apple apps. The more excitable elements even suggested some dark plot on Apple’s part: Tim Cook: “We at Apple believe that privacy is a fundamental … Continue reading

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Inserting Newlines in the Mac’s Messages App

On the heels of yesterday’s semi-Mac-specific post, here’s one that’s entirely Mac specific. If you’re a Linux or Windows user, there won’t be anything very interesting for you in this offering. John Gruber over at Daring Fireball, provoked by a … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: iPhones and Sanity

The other day, I wrote about Aaron Ogle’s experience in de-Googling his workflow. Although I didn’t mention it, he wrote that part of his de-Googling efforts were to replace his Android phone with an iPhone. It was, he said—undoubtedly tongue-in-cheek—an … Continue reading

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Toggling iTerm2 Full Screen Mode

This post is Apple Mac specific so Linux and Windows users can have the day off. I came across this tweet that has a very useful piece of parenthetical information: TIL about `winner-mode` for #emacs. Excellent tool (especially after having … Continue reading

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Securing Your iPhone

This is an Apple-centric post but I know a lot of Irreal readers have iPhones or iPads so it’s worth passing on. Over at Computerworld, Jonny Evans has an excellent article on How to stay as private as possible on … Continue reading

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Final Update on Mojave/Emacs Problem

Thursday night I compiled a new Emacs from the Emacs-26 branch1. Today, Friday, I updated my OS to Mojave. I’m happy to say that everything seems to be working fine. I will hold off publishing this until Saturday just to … Continue reading

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Things I Don’t Miss

I just upgraded to Safari 12.0. I’ve been looking forward to it because Apple has greatly expanded the anti-tracking measures in the new Safari. Apparently the extension framework has changed because one of my extensions was deleted and the other … Continue reading

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Apple’s New Maps

Way back in 2012, I wrote about Apple venturing into maps and the problems they were having. As I said at the time, getting good map data is extraordinarily hard—Google at the time had over 7,000 people working on their … Continue reading

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