YES TO THIS EVERY WORD OF IT

also “obligated”, which is just “obliged” in a crappy rented tux

MacVoices #26118: Jeff Carlson Takes Control of iPhone Photography (1) — MacVoices Jeff Carlson discusses the second edition of Take Control of iPhone Photography, explaining how it helps users move beyond basic snapshots to more deliberat ...

MacVoices #26118: @jeffcarlson.bsky.social Takes Control of iPhone Photography (1) for @takecontrolbooks.com

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FindYourTag — Every Find My Network Device, Compared Compare every Apple Find My Network compatible device from all major brands. Search, filter, and sort AirTags, wallet trackers, luggage tags, earbuds, and more.

FindYourTag now lists 71 devices with built-in Apple Find My Network tracking. People keep sending me more to add, and I keep finding more. I started with 30-odd?! findyourtag.net

Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone. BECKY [on phone]: Yeah, hiya... 2 BECKY: Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs. 3 BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]: Sorry what was your name again? 4 [Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.] PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility 5 BECKY Sorry - Your name is Easter…? PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre. 6 [Vicky pauses, trying to take this in]. VICKY: Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs. 7 PAGAN GODDESS: Sorry love, what’s your name? BECKY: Becky PAGAN GODDESS: Well, Vicky - 8 PAGAN GODDESS: If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here - TEENAGE BOY: Muuum… 9 PAGAN GODDESS: ….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too! 10 PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival! 11 BECKY: You mean… Jesus…? PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky. 12 PAGAN GODDESS: Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4? TEENAGE BOY: MUUUUM [Ends]

Happy Ēostre!

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

Take Control of Focus cover

Our newest book, Take Control of Focus by @glennf.com, helps Apple users reduce the constant barrage of beeps, buzzes, rings, and notifications while ensuring that desired alerts appear. https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/focus/

Is 'OK' Okay? "OK" and "okay" are both correct, but "OK" came first, and the story of where it came from is worth reading! - Quick and Dirty Tips.

On this day (March 23) the word "OK" first appeared in the Boston Morning Post in 1839, and author Allan Metcalf, who wrote a whole book about "OK," promoted today at "OK Day."

It all started as a funny misspelling: "oll korrekt" (think of it as 19th-century text speak).

Read more: is.gd/BlUp5O

This this 1000%

A screenshot of PCalc running on iOS and displaying Pi.

Once again, Pi Day rolls around, and I forgot to actually do anything substantial to promote PCalc.

Even worse, I added Tau in the latest release, and the Pi people and the Tau people have been at war for decades. Don't ask…

But the current iOS version is 3.14.x and so Pi wins today!

pcalc.com

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️

Image of the prairies, tall grass under a grey blue sky with a rotting shed in the corner. The PF logo in brown with text: bury my body in the tall prairie grass— this ruined house of rusted cans and porcelain shards, boards and plaster. What is true will remain. From “Homecoming” by Morgen Jahnke Prairie Fire’s winter issue on sale now at prairiefire.ca

Our winter issue is on sale now on our website and in stores around the country!
Featuring new work like this haunting new poem from Morgen Jahnke.

Details: prairiefire.ca/current-issue/

Thank you!

Today is the 37th anniversary of Laura Palmer's death, the 28th anniversary of my first date with my wife, and the 4th anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I will never forget any of those anniversaries.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton You may recognize Wil Wheaton’s name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985’s timeless classic, Stand B…

This week, I'm going to get way out of my comfort zone and promote the hell out of my podcast. I'm so proud of the work we are doing, and I want as many people as possible to know it exists.

So I'll begin here:

wilwheaton.net/podcast/

This morning I briefly smelled brownies baking in our house, even though none were. Later on, my son said he was planning to make brownies today. We've determined that I must be able to smell the future: preolfaction. Weird superpower but I'm into it.

You’re welcome! I’m glad you’ve found the books helpful.

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Today is 12 weeks since I had open heart surgery to replace my aortic valve! That marks the end of my main recovery period and I feel terrific. Recovery has been right on track, I can now walk miles at a time, and I feel good to great nearly all the time. I have months to go reach my new

One-Time Passcodes

We don’t automatically update all our books every time Apple releases a point update. There was not enough different in Tahoe 26.2 vs. 26.1 to justify an updated book, but we’ll keep an eye on things and update in the future if/when conditions warrant.

Ive watched this about 100 times.

This is why the internet was invented.

Right here.

Peak content.

I just wrote a 100-page book about Apple Wallet. Yes, that’s right. You heard me. There were so many pain points that I dug deep into the app, its settings, how Apple Pay works, and more. If you’ve ever been frustrated with Apple Pay or Wallet, this ebook is for you: www.takecontrolbooks.com/wallet/

Currently Inbox 2 but I’ve been busy

i guess this is me until further notice

Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

Cool. Did you study with William Chen, by any chance?

Let’s hope you’re right. (Surprising things happen all the time!)

Now corrected, thanks. But also, I think I can confidently say that 2026 will be a weirdly difficult year too :-)