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Adam Engst 12 comments

AppBITS: Use Blip to Send Large Files Directly

Do you regularly need to send large files to someone else? Blip makes it easy to send files of any size to any Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Android user directly over your network or the Internet. 

Adam Engst 30 comments

Help Build a Tool To Track Apple Support Page Changes

It’s possible to write software that can traverse the entire universe of Apple support pages. Wouldn’t it be helpful if there were a tool that would tell you which pages were new or had changed? 

Adam Engst No comments

Talking about Troubleshooting on the Chit Chat Across the Pond Podcast

In which Adam Engst and Allison Sheridan talk through Adam’s solar inverter connectivity problem as an example of how small assumptions can prevent successful troubleshooting.

Adam Engst 27 comments

DEVONtechnologies Resurrects Network Utility

Apple deprecated Network Utility in macOS 11 Big Sur, but DEVONtechnologies has now released the free Neo Network Utility, a near-clone of Apple’s obsolete utility.

Adam Engst 14 comments

How to Turn Off iCloud Private Relay to Work Around Outages

Apple’s iCloud Private Relay traffic anonymization service went down last week for some users, causing various connectivity problems in Safari and other apps. If you experiencing connectivity problems, try turning off iCloud Private Relay temporarily.

Adam Engst 21 comments

Solar Inverter Connectivity Problem Reveals Weak Troubleshooting

After failing to reestablish Internet connectivity for his solar panel inverters following a spate of power outages, Adam Engst finally figured out the problem with the help of a support tech who made him break it down into its constituent parts. Read on to learn from his mistakes.

Adam Engst 12 comments

Apple Maps on the Web Appears in Beta

We may soon get better sharing of Apple Maps location links with Windows users thanks to the beta of Maps on the Web.

Adam Engst 25 comments

Why AI Web Scraping (Mostly) Doesn’t Bother Me

Despite the seemingly universal outrage about tech companies scraping the open Web to train their models, Adam Engst finds himself largely unperturbed. 

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Fixing Slack for iPhone’s “Only Some People Can Post” Error

If Slack on the iPhone displays “Only some people can post.” in channels where you should have posting permissions, force-quit it to fix the problem.

Adam Engst 8 comments

Slack to Stop Storing Historical Content for Free Workspaces

Slack will be reducing its data storage needs and trying to incentivize free teams to upgrade by deleting data older than a year from free workspaces. Only the last 90 days of data is visible anyway; the change affects only those who upgrade to a paid plan and would previously have recovered all old data.

Adam Engst 6 comments

LittleBITS: Be Aware of TidBITS Server Changes

We’re starting the process of moving TidBITS servers to the Cloudways managed hosting service, so don’t worry if you see occasional hiccups in the next few weeks. 

Adam Engst 6 comments

Apple’s Wi-Fi-based Positioning System Reveals Access Point Locations

University of Maryland security researchers used a clever approach to querying Apple’s location API to determine the locations of more than two billion Wi-Fi access points worldwide. You can opt out.

Adam Engst 22 comments

Online Messaging Systems of Yesteryear

Want to wax nostalgic? This history of online messaging system is sure to trigger some memories of when the Internet was a smaller, kinder place.

Adam Engst 20 comments

Arc Search iPhone App Now Syncs Arc Sidebar Tabs

An update to the Arc Search app for the iPhone gives Arc users using macOS and Windows access to all their tabs and the ability to save pages from the iPhone to the Arc sidebar.

Glenn Fleishman 7 comments

Google Raises Privacy Bar with Its Crowdsourced Tracking Service

Google’s new Find My Device network works nearly identically to Apple’s Find My network with a few exceptions: Google’s design offers more anti-stalking and privacy features than Apple.