Evidently, when Time Machine encounters a file that’s open and being written to (e.g. a Safari download), it sits and watches the file, periodically copying the new data to the backup. As opposed to going off and copying everything else first, and then coming back to the open file. This has the lovely effect that… Read more
I’ve been looking forward to trying Mac OS X 10.9’s “advanced” (i.e. not-transmitting-my-life-story-to-Apple) dictation, as a potential competitor to Dragon Dictate. Unfortunately, it’s – against all odds – even more embarrassing than Siri. For example: This test, of the coolest names built-in dictation.) Nope, not important. If you’re..Reasonably built night, That was true Samaritan and… Read more
Officially, Apple claims that you can store your last 30 days of photos in iCloud via Photo Streams. This is true only if you don’t have very many. If you actually take a lot of photos, iCloud boots your arse out and doesn’t let you use Photo Streams anymore. At all. 24/09/13 6:54:08.457 PM PhotoStreamAgent[305]:… Read more
Sure, Aperture, I’ll get right on that. Will deleting this buggy “Aperture.app” help? [ This happens periodically, randomly. The only solution of which I’m aware is to restart Aperture and try again. ]
In summary, I’m really not impressed with the new iPhones. Not that I’ve ever really liked the iPhone that much, but I’ve always at least thought that the new one each year was an actual upgrade. Make no mistake, shipping ARM64 in a phone of all things before anyone else has even put it into… Read more
I had some obvious reservations about it based on what was presented publicly, but I wanted to give it some time and actually use it for a while to see what was just a mistaken gut reaction and what I could get used to. Long story short, it’s far worse than even I thought. I… Read more
I’m worried for Aperture – it’s ageing, slow to get RAW support updates, does some nasty, funky shit with colours in NEFs, and can’t do some fundamental corrections (like geometric distortion). So I finally decided to download Lightroom and give it a shot. Thoughts on this: Adobe requires you make some stupid user account in… Read more