The kitchen was an excellent analogy. This sacrifice of tools for content has been going on for years. How long have we been dealing with a jump on a page without a clue as to what we did and how to get back to where we were? Then it is click here. Slide there. Use more fingers. It is like hiding the knives in separate drawer and cabinets instead of in one place in the knife rack. And eventually to do a search on the internet for some kind soul who has solved the problem and shared the soluti...| TidBITS Talk
Using IPhone Pro 16. During a recent trip, I found that I was accidentally hitting the camera control (or Gen Z button as I call it) and changing the photos with all these crazy filters and shadings unintentionally. I hold the camera with one hand and use my thumb to shoot pictures with the volume buttons. My fingers hit the camera control and change things on me. I’m really not interested in anything except shooting plain pictures with the option of applying filters later in Photos on Mac....| TidBITS Talk
Originally published at: Upcoming NMUG Presentation on Building a Modern Backup Strategy - TidBITS I’ve written extensively about backup strategies over the years, most recently in “It’s Time to Move On from Bootable Backups” (23 December 2024) and “Do You Use It? Backup Strategies Span the Gamut” (16 January 2025). I’ll be distilling the advice from those articles in a presentation for the Naples MacFriends User Group (NMUG), one of the most vibrant Mac user groups, so if the t...| TidBITS Talk
Join Adam Engst for a free online presentation about creating an effective modern backup strategy at the Naples MacFriends User Group meeting on 21 May 2025.| TidBITS
Originally published at: The Trials and Tribulations of Keeping Up with Apple’s Security Lockdowns - TidBITS At Rogue Ameoeba’s blog Under the Microscope, Paul Kafasis writes: During this time, Apple placed an emphasis on improving the security of MacOS, continually locking the operating system down further and further. Though their changes weren’t aimed at the legitimate audio capture we provided our users, they nonetheless made that capture increasingly difficult. We labored to keep o...| TidBITS Talk
