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Orange Crate Art
Noisy macOS, noisy iOS
Did you know that you can get distraction-covering noise from macOS (Ventura and above) and iOS (15 and above)?
Clickbait
I am baffled by the way macOS dictation capitalizes Clickbait.
Dictating on Apple devices
From Apple: commands for dictating text.
Apple Calendar
Does everyone already know that you can reschedule events in Calendar by moving them with a finger or a mouse?
”Huh?“
At least I know I’m not alone in thinking it a problem: Why are the right- and left-quotation marks on iOS’s keyboard reversed?
Full-page screenshots in iOS and macOS
Here’s how to take a screenshot of a full page in iOS and macOS (Cult of Mac). These tricks will save someone the tedious work of pasting together parts to make a large whole.
A strange Apple spelling glitch
Type “snd” in an app in macOS (14.3.1) or iOS (17.3.1), and the non-word isn’t flagged as a misspelling
Nuts to dictation
"Not free," not “nut free.”
Editing after sending
With iOS 16.2.
Orange Crate Art: ”’‘“
Finally, I found an answer, from the User Experience Stack Exchange: Why are the right- and left-quotation marks on iOS’s keyboard reversed?
Stop / Stop
The difference between the iOS Timer and Alarm screens bugs me.
Hive mind
My iPhone (iOS 14.5.1) is a hive of activity: the Safari Favorites icons for The New York Times and the Times Spelling Bee change at will.
Ernie, Nancy, and ExactPic
The graphic designer Khoi Vinh has created ExactPic, a free tool made of shortcuts for editing images in iOS and iPadOS. Resize, crop, frame, and save. Amazing: I can finally tinker with images on my iPhone as I do on my Mac.
A last autocorrection
I’m done with iOS and macOS autocorrection, which have messed up my writing again and again. Now on all mistakes will be my own.
iOS autocorrect and alcohol
Lemonier Lemonier Glamorous Fleming’s Glamorous Lemonade The name I was trying to enter: Glenmorangie. I think that John Gruber is correct: autocorrect is drunk, and it’s only 8:17 in the morning. And it’s gonna stay drunk all day.
Mac Open Web
Brian Warren’s Mac Open Web, “a collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web.”
Wipr
Wipr, by Giorgio Calderolla, is a macOS and iOS app that blocks ads in Safari.
iOS Safari search suggestions
Try as I might, I cannot figure out how to remove search suggestions from Safari on an iPhone XR. Does anyone know how to make these Safari suggestions go away?
Opening Safari links in iOS
Tapping with two fingers will open a link in a new tab.
Autocorrect fail
¡Es ver Dad!
iOS text editors
Brett Terpstra’s iOS text-editor roundup is an exhaustive guide to writing apps for the iPhone and iPad. One iOS writing app that I espec...
iOS Dictation fail
It may be unwise to use Dictation when texting about folk music.
Bear, a writing app
A writing app of great simplicity, for macOS and iOS.
DropCopy for Mac and iOS
DropCopy and DropCopy Mobile allow for easy transfer of files and folders between Macs, iPads, and iPhones on the same network. If your Mac is too old to for AirDrop with your phone, use DropCopy.
GMEU app
Garner’s Modern English Usage is now available as an iOS app, beautifully designed and exceedingly useful.
Atomic fact
Atomic energy is the best thing ever to get the most Proustian and the most recent fact of the day.
iOS to the rescue
“Since I have practically no knowledge of Nuclear Physics I resorted to iOS auto-complete function to help me writing the paper.”
iOS 9, uppercase, lowercase
I like the look of the lowercase keyboard, I really do, but switching from lowercase to uppercase via the Shift key is jarring, as I noticed every time I typed a capital letter.
SKRWT
An easy-to-use app to fix lens distortion and other problems in iOS photographs.