Winner’s Circle
Bill Hadden was the Lucky winner of a one year subscription to Apple TV+ drawn for at our February General Meeting. Congratulations to Bill! Contents
New Members
Nicola CooperVito DunfordJoanne HolmesIrene KhuranaKathy Gilbey Shelagh Levey - returning member Contents
Tired of Web Sites Blocking Standard Browser Controls? StopTheMadness!
JOSH CENTERS 17 February 202022 comments Have you been frustrated by Web sites that prevent you from copying text and images, add advertisements to copied text, add tracking junk to URLs, keep you from pasting in passwords, and block the Control-click...
Swift Playgrounds Now Available for the Mac
JOSH CENTERS 17 February 2020No comments Apple introduced Swift Playgrounds in 2016 as an iPad-only app that provided a friendly way to learn the Swift programming language (see “Playing Around with Swift on the iPad,” 13 June 2016). Apple has now made Swift...
One Switch: My New Must-Have Mac Utility
JOSH CENTERS 5 February 202015 comments Over the past eight years of writing for TidBITS (wow, that long?), I’ve never tried an app and immediately thought, “Everyone needs to be using this!” Until now. I recently spotted an app called One Switch in Setapp with this...
How to Deal with Running Out of iCloud, Google, and Dropbox Space
ADAM ENGST 17 February 202024 comments We think of “the cloud” as an amorphous space without limits. That may be true in the aggregate, but each of our personal cloud storage accounts has limits, and in comparison to the terabyte-sized drives in our Macs, our...
Double-Check Your iPhone’s Medical ID Emergency Contacts
ADAM ENGST 18 February 202017 comments Have you configured your Medical ID on your iPhone? Mike Matthews wrote about this feature for us in “Can Your iPhone Replace Your Wallet?” (30 June 2017), but all too many people haven’t taken the time to enter the few...
#DeathToAutoPlay—Netflix Finally Lets Us Disable Auto-Play Previews
ADAM ENGST 6 February 202023 comments I spend a lot of time feeling like a modern-day Don Quixote, off tilting at tech windmills. Of my Bad Apple articles, Apple has addressed only one—the issue with Reminders sorting badly, which the company fixed in macOS 10.15...
Why Is the Apple TV Constantly Advertising at Us?
JOSH CENTERS 16 January 202010 comments The Apple TV app on the Apple TV is currently the bane of my existence. In theory, it should be a tidy way to manage everything you watch, bringing together content from Apple, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, and other streaming services...