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Test Volume Creation with APFS Using Disk Utility

Create a Test Volume to Diagnose Your Mac with APFS

Battery Graph from iStat Menus Showing Massive Battery Loss Overnight As you probably know, my 14” MacBook Pro has been plagued by battery life well below the advertised numbers pretty much since the day I got it in late 2020. Apple continue to work with me to try to figure out the root cause and […]

Apple Apps Aren’t In Your Normal Applications Folder and Why You Might Care

Applications Folder Shows Apple Apps Did you know that Apple apps aren’t REALLY in your top-level Applications folder with all of your other apps? If you open your Applications folder on your Mac using the Finder, you’ll see all of your Apple apps intermingled with your third-party apps, but it turns out they’re not really […]

NC #703 HashPhotos on SCO, TCL Monitor and Bias Lighting, Choosing Your Activity Goal, Wonky Wifi Testing

I’m super excited about my latest tutorial on ScreenCasts Online about HashPhotos. In Chit Chat Across the Pond I interviewed a former NASA engineer turned science fiction author named Darren Beyer. George from Tulsa brings us his success story with a TCL Monitor and bias lighting. Then we’ll go through the answers you gave to […]

Testing Wonky WiFi with Wireless Diagnostics App

This week Steve and I ran into a very curious problem with our network. Before I jump into what went wrong, I should give you the layout of our current network. We have Frontier FiOS (used to be owned by Verizon) and we’re paying for symmetric 75Mbps upload and download. We’ve had fantastic service for […]

NC #686 Listening to Bart Pays Off, Instagram from a Computer, Security Bits

This week I’ll tell you a tale of how all the knowledge Bart has been pouring on us really paid off this week, then I’ll tell you how to play on Instagram.com from a real computer. Heck, I learned a lot of what I used there from Bart too! Then with even more Bart, we’ve […]

Solved – Apple Watch Not Registering Exercise

Over on the Facebook group (podfeet.com/facebook) there’s been a discussion of the problem when an Apple Watch refuses to give Exercise credit in the Activity app. Using Activity is all about credit, so this is pretty important to Apple Watch users. I started the discussion actually on behalf of fellow NosillaCastaway, Lindsay Tondee, aka Jibblies […]

What to Do When Your Apple Watch Starts Talking (and the Screen Goes Black)

If you ever find your Apple Watch talking to you but the screen is staying blank, you might find some tips in this story. As is often the case with tech stories, this one ends in success but contains an unsolved mystery. You know I like to experiment with VoiceOver to keep increasing my knowledge […]

NC #584 1Writer, iOS Console, ProShot

The grandbaby isn’t here yet, but we’re on the edges of our seats around here. In the mean time I found an app called 1Writer from 1writerapp.com that might help me write in Markdown on the iPad. We’ll take a look at iOS Console, a Mac app from lemonjar.com/… that lets you see the diagnostics […]

View iOS Logs with iOS Console from Lemonjar

While I was working on my review about 1Writer I noticed something very odd happening. Every time I tried to write the word starting with leading caps “The,” it would change instantly to all lower case. That meant I couldn’t start sentences with The or There. I had just enabled TextExpander so I thought maybe […]

2.4GHz Network Restored With the USB 3 Hub in Place

Last week I told the story of my work with Apple to diagnose a misbehaving 2.4GHz wireless network. The TL;DR (too long, didn’t read) version is that my 2.4GHz wireless network for my Internet of Things devices was being affected by my Anker 10-port USB 3 hub. During the live show (podfeet.com/live) George from Tulsa […]