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What is LiDAR (a guess on iPhone 12) - Yesterday

Wife needs better video camera so I'm thinking of waiting for the fall-2020 iPhone 12 that may come out, and in looking at TomsGuide, his best guesses are that the specs on the Pro will include something called LiDAR. Google says it's largely a way to enhance distance and measurement. But how does that show up in real pic or video improvement. Does anyone have first-hand experience in seeing how

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Re: What up with Statins? - 2 days ago

Quoterjmacs Healthcare choices are about calculated risks. Spot on.

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Re: What up with Statins? - 2 days ago

Glad doctors are starting to not suggest them. I think statins will eventually be put on the List of Withdrawn Drugs or at least relegated to the rarely used category. Too many great dietary alternatives to help lower cholesterol are known, and the safe range of mmol/liter is being questioned. That said, I'm very libertarian when it comes to person choice of drugs. People should be able to ta

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Re: Pic comparing 3 different MacBook Airs, including new 2020 MBA - 3 days ago

QuoteMarkintosh oooohhhh. Thanks for posting that! my next MBA would be a 13inch then...I've had the 11's since they came out. Had the same realization from this, when I realized my 11 was the same as the new 13 except less than an inch higher and 7 ounces heavier. I think I'll do what jdc suggested and go with the faster processor and 512 SSD.

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Some hidden new fonts in Catalina - 3 days ago

Nice article points out some free fonts that Apple has included in Catalina, just requires downloading via Font Book. Most are non-latin fonts, but I found a couple that I'll find useful.

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Pic comparing 3 different MacBook Airs, including new 2020 MBA - 3 days ago

Well this was interesting. I hadn't been paying attention to the changes in form sizes of MBAs until I purchased the new 2020 13" this week. I'd always been a fan of the 11" MBA because I only used it for travel. But after setting up the new 2020 13" MBA, I realized it didn't feel a lot bigger than my 2015 11-inch. Well, that's because it isn't! At least width-wise. I'v

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Re: Pic of new 2020 MacBook Air for wife - 4 days ago

QuoteNewtonMP2100 .....happy wife.....happy life...... I wish this were a mere meme, but I keep finding it very true.

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Re: Pic of new 2020 MacBook Air for wife - 4 days ago

Note: I'd completely forgotten about the hub that all of these new awesome units require, now that they've ripped out all ports except 2 of the new USB-C ports. (both on one side...). I actually don't mind when they improve ports, and it's actually kind of cool that there's only one hub needed now to plug in ones extra monitor, Time Machine, 4 external USB devices, and even allow you to charg

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Pic of new 2020 MacBook Air for wife - 5 days ago

dang. What a beautiful machine. We're upgrading her from a 2012 MBA 13" so it'll be fun to see what the speed differences will be. First things I'm noticing about it: - love the newly designed keyboard feel - speakers sound like Bose. Serious dynamic range 8Gb RAM, 256Gb SSD. $949 plus $65 tax on Amazon. The onions came as a free upgrade.

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Re: Hide on first page, Pages app. - 7 days ago

Ha, I remember having the same search frustration. I think it's called "Hide on the first page of Section" which requires setting up a section for that first page. Is that how you have it, rich-in-distress?

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Re: Another decline - job no longer available - 7 days ago

With your skill set, you are going to find a great situation. Call me wishful thinking, but my life experience has shown that something better always shows up, and I end up grateful that I didn't do the other thing.

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Re: lancing a boil?!.....Lance Armstrong documentary coming this Sunday...... - 7 days ago

QuoteDrew I haven't seen the documentary of course, but this whole story brings up mixed emotions in me. I was an avid bicycle rider in those days. Loved Lance and all he did. Couldn't believe the drug rumors until he said it himself. I was blind and stupid. Since then, it's often hard to cheer for my favorite teams, especially pro sports, because it's all about the money. It's only personal and

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Re: 8TB M.2 NVMe SSD!!! - 8 days ago

QuoteRAMd®d In for two! Why so cheap? I hear the 10 packs have a good discount.

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Re: Uninstalling - 11 days ago

Quoterjmacs The current version of AppCleaner is 3.5, it's free, and it's available directly from the developer's website. Clyde may have downloaded it originally from one of the @#$%& sites that usurp awesome free applications like Onyx, AppCleaner and others, and try to charge for them and install malware and other pay apps. The really tricky part is that many of these buttwipe sites used to

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Re: Uninstalling - 12 days ago

AppCleaner v 3.4 works great on both Mojave and Catalina. It's never asked me to upgrade.

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Re: cannot find any drivers for Logitech mouse - 15 days ago

I don't think they need drivers any more. I've owned nothing but Logitech mice for 15 years, and no drivers needed. If you want 3rd party control for them, check out SteerMouse. I've used that forever, and he's always updated it with each OSX.

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Re: office chair recommendation - 15 days ago

Same: I upgraded the wheels a number of years back, mine were of a higher profile (3 inch diameter) which gave me an extra inch in overall height AND were quieter. QuoteJohn B. Sitting in my Aeron that I bought in '96 or '97. I've replaced two parts...the lumbar support bar eventually dried out and cracked, and I put skateboard casters on it last year (sooooo much quieter on hard surfaces).

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Re: office chair recommendation - 15 days ago

QuoteJPK The Aeron is expensive, but worth it. Same. Have had Aeron(s) since the year they came out. And I just saw a local seller selling B and C Aeron chairs in great shape for $435. Definitely worth seeing if they fit your particular bio-mechanics.

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Re: office chair recommendation - 15 days ago

Definitely don't pass on trying the Aeron. You can get mint condition units (you sound like you'll see the largest C size, like me) used all over the country. Check CraigsList and eBay and online. Also, a little hidden trick: go to the back the Aeron chair and place your finger between the mesh and under the plastic curled lip on top of the back support right behind where it is written “Her

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Did some major outage just occur? Hostgator and Dropcanvas are both down - 16 days ago

At first I figured it was me, then checked www.IsItDown.com and yes, they're both down.

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Sync Safari bookmarks with Chrome (dynamically/automatically) - 16 days ago

Anyone ever figure a way to dynamically sync bookmarks in Safari with Chrome? Starting to work with a few tools (TubeBuddy being one) that only work in Chrome, so I'm needing to move out of the Safari world. I rely heavily on bookmarks. I may just ditch Safari altogether, then this won't matter.

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Re: Safari: How Stop 'Top Sites' Window? - 16 days ago

Good find. Can't believe I couldn't remember how I finally figured that out. It drove me crazy for months, too.

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Re: Safari: How Stop 'Top Sites' Window? - 17 days ago

Oh right, v13 will not run on Sierra, only High Sierra and beyond. Not sure of the fix, but I remember my work around was this: hit Command-N to open a new window, hit Command-L to get my cursor into the URL field, then either paste or type in the website or search text I needed. That Command-L changes the whole game.

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Re: Safari: How Stop 'Top Sites' Window? - 17 days ago

Can you upgrade to v13? I remember being bugged by that, too. In 13, you go to the General tab, choose anything other than Top sites in both the New window opens with, AND the New tab opens with.

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Re: Formatting Flash Drives: is APFS faster than Extended (Journaled)? - 19 days ago

QuoteArticle Accelerator Tuqqer: "Was just reading how fancy pants SSDs are so much faster now than the one I installed in 2013, and then bam, slowness" Just to be clear here, your issue refers to flash drives and not SSDs, right? Correct. I was trying to joke that while SSDs had gotten faster, somehow these thumbdrives had slowed down.

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Re: Formatting Flash Drives: is APFS faster than Extended (Journaled)? - 19 days ago

Quotegabester @tuqqer - good on you to actually test your media write speeds... I just assume newer devices will be better than older ones. Me too! Was just reading how fancy pants SSDs are so much faster now than the one I installed in 2013, and then bam, slowness. I need to speak to the manager!

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Re: Formatting Flash Drives: is APFS faster than Extended (Journaled)? - 19 days ago

Quoteanonymouse1 Neither of those is design for flash disk storage. You want to exFAT. these are always for very temporary file transfer from Mac to Mac. But just for testing, I reformatted these to exFAT. About the same speeds. I also just tested the write speeds with identical large files with another 128 flash drive I have. It's like twice the speed. I'm going to return these.

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Formatting Flash Drives: is APFS faster than Extended (Journaled)? - 19 days ago

Not sure if I just have lemons here, but just got two flash drives yesterday from Amazon (Silicon Power 2 Pack 128GB USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 USB Flash Drive Blaze B02), and reformatted them to Journal Extended and GUID scheme, and they were slow as molasses. Like an hour for a 5GB file. I was about to write the seller, and decided to see if some other format would be faster (these are only for Mac t

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Re: Any noticeable advantages to upgrading a MacPro6,1 internals? - 21 days ago

Thanks all, especially the CPU watching. I think this is a case of boredom on my part, and my Mac is doing just fine for my uses. My only slowdowns ever are in video editing, and that's been fixed largely by converting any clip to Pro Res first. From what I'm reading, the different updates of the 6,1 are fairly negligible, 10-15% improvements at best. Sticking with old Betsy for now.

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Re: Any noticeable advantages to upgrading a MacPro6,1 internals? - 21 days ago

Just the basic Mac apps mainly. I do video editing with Screenflow, and recording training videos with Zoom, but I hear that no internal upgrades of the MacPro will help very much with video work. How does one determine if an app is core-intensive? And is the better processor (in this particular example) not that big a deal?

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