∞ Apple Support: How to find your lost AirPods:
The first bit of this video is pretty straight-forward. Launch Find My, then tap Find.
But watch the video all the way through. There are subtleties (like the left and right buttons in the upper left) and details on activating Lost Mode.
Not rocket science, but better to be familiar with the process now, less stress when you can’t find your AirPods and that frantic search begins.
[Righteo!]
Source: The Loop
Brik Font: Creating Type with Lego:
Craig Ward has been creating letterforms using Lego bricks and posting the results to Instagram. The ones I really love are the anti-aliased letters — reminds me of zooming all the way in to do detail work in Photoshop back when I was a web designer.
There is just something so satisfying about meticulously rendering digital artifacts in a physical medium like Lego.
[So good!]
Source: kottke.org
This page from Apple covers what you need to know… but the idea is this: Daniel Steinhardt posted a video with steps to update the firmware in a G3, and suggested turning on Airplane mode, and restoring bluetooth connectivity in order to prevent calls or such from interrupting the updating process.
Of course, that means that you have to remember to turn that off when you’re done, and I suspect in practice that could be easily forgotten.
The page above tells you how to create a focus (or modify one of the presets). If you don’t allow anyone to call, and not allow apps to post notifications etc. I believe you’ll get the same effect, but it will turn on when you run the G3 app, and turn off when you close the G3 app. Nice! The screen shot below shows you the focus I created for this which called (duh) “G3”. You can see that no people are allowed and that the G3 app is selected so that it will automatically turn on when you run the app. Other details are available on Apple’s page above, but it’s all pretty straight forward. Enjoy!
∞ Apple Support: How to use Dual SIM on iPhone:
Apple Support continues to knock it out of the Park.
This video focuses on the details on setting up dual SIMS, some combination of physical SIM card or eSIM. Incredibly useful if you have two lines or plan on traveling abroad.
[More excellence from The Loop as well.]
Source: The Loop
10 free ways to send large videos and files from iPhone:
Ankur Thakur, iDownloadBlog:
Wondering how you can send a big video, graphics-heavy document, or other large files to someone from your iPhone? Look at ten ways to send big files from your iPhone to someone on another iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows PC, or Android phone. Most methods here are wireless, while others will require a Lightning cable.
This is worth bookmarking, for that moment when you find yourself having to move a massive file from one device to another. Nice walkthrough of each technique, with detail and links to more detail.
[Excellent]
Source: The Loop
inessential: 1942 Letter to My Grandfather from His Father:
Brent writes: My Dad ran across a remarkable letter and shared it with family. I volunteered to share it more widely, and Dad and his siblings agreed.
You are too intelligent to be told and believe that war is anything but a tragic mess, however, we are in this not with our consent but because of a treacherous attack that we did not invite. Regardless of the causes the effect is that we simply must win.
[Go read the whole thing. It’s remarkable history. Thanks for sharing Brent.]
100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying | Life and style | The Guardian:
[Sharpen your knives (or any implement that should be sharp.) It doesn’t take long and it pays off in spades.]
Daring Fireball: Tomorrow Is Doomsday for BlackBerry Devices:
From BlackBerry’s OS services FAQ:
As a reminder, the legacy services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier versions, will no longer be available after January 4, 2022. As of this date, devices running these legacy services and software through either carrier or Wi-Fi connections will no longer reliably function, including for data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality.
I wonder how many people are still hanging on to old BlackBerry phones. At one point, they truly had a cult following.
[Lots of folks said to me “They’d never switch from their Blackberry phones/keyboard.” Soooo, how’s that going?]
I’ve always wanted a little number pad next to my keyboard, so I tied my Stream Deck to PCalc!
[Nice idea!]
[And then Dave]
Scripting News: Why not drive a Tesla:
I found out in the latest update. I had the temperature in the car set to 65 degrees, the same temperature I have my house thermostat set to. When I got into my updated car, the temperature was 72. It said so very clearly on the big display in the middle of the dash. So I did what I did before, touched the temperature, up pops the environment panel, but I couldn’t find any way to change the temp back to 65. I know how to scan a UI from left to right and top to bottom to find the thing that should be big, in the middle the display. A slider that sets the temperature. It wasn’t there. I sat in the car in my garage for a few minutes before I had a brilliant idea. Try doing it on the phone where the UI didn’t change. Voila. Back to comfort.
[I’ve always enjoyed “over the air” updates for the apps I use. For sure, you’re at the mercy of the developers involved, but overall they’ve worked for me. But I don’t know what to make of these updates Tesla owners are “enjoying”. I’m not sure a purely virtual interface is a good thing in a car where you can’t feel the button or stalk, or more importantly engage with it with “muscle memory”. And all the touch screens seem to suffer from targets that are too small if the car is bouncing even a little (your arm extended toward the screen doesn’t make for the steadiest of platforms to poke a small spot on the screen). Breakage in a car seems like a terrible idea, and burying things so that they’re not easy to find seems even worse.]
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