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Removing "Start up" schedule in Ventura is about the weirdest Apple move ever. - 17 days ago

Blows my mind that Apple chose to remove the "Start up or wake" System Setting in Ventura. They just took it out because... they ran out of code? They forgot? They thought no one uses it? For years, I had my Mac automatically start at 7am or whatever time shortly before I'd get to work. Loved that feature. Now, it requires a trip to the terminal each time you want to set or adju

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Re: I can't mass delete emails from Mail Inbox - 20 days ago

Big fan of keeping Mail slim and trim to prevent it from bogging down. Here's my process: 1. Create a Smart Folder, All Attachments: Contains Attachments: Message is not in Mailbox: All Inboxes. Date received: is not in the last: 180 days. This pulls up any email (that isn't in my Inbox) that is at least 6 months old and has an attachment. I sort by size, and then as Tiangou suggested, s

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Re: Any of you actually watch this Avatar Water movie? - 4 weeks ago

Loved the first one. Saw Avatar2 last week, and was quite surprised how boring the storyline was. It's basically a very, very cliched war movie in amazing CGI. I'm rarely pulled out a movie as often as I was during this one, often thinking that Cameron really lost the plot over the zillions of hours they spent working on the special effects.

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Re: Scam . . .? - 5 weeks ago

I purchased it. As others noted, some weird hoops and confusion, but it eventually showed up on "my" MS dashboard, and I'm now running updated Office.

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Re: Any Excel for Mac experts? Return Ribbon to default settings? - 6 weeks ago

Yeah, I went for the full reinstall (with a updated paid Office) and that fixed it.

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Re: Any Excel for Mac experts? Return Ribbon to default settings? - 6 weeks ago

Running Ventura. I remembered that someone had posted a link to a lifetime Office 2021 and decided to upgrade. The price has actually dropped to $29 ($32 with tax). Took a few head scratches but Office 2021 is now installed. Link for anyone still interested:

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Any Excel for Mac experts? Return Ribbon to default settings? - 6 weeks ago

Finally after putting it off for decades, I need to learn a lot more about Excel. I'm on standalone 16.49. I think over time, I may have "customized" (read: mucked up) the Ribbon and tabs, because when I go to look for answers online, they refer to things that I can't find or see. Is there a way to return Excel to its original state? Also, now that I'm digging in deep, shoul

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Re: Anyone using Apple's Private Relay? - 7 weeks ago

QuoteFritz I guess this is not the same as a Private window in FFx or the like? Or auto cookie delete in FFx? Fritz, I'd never really checked out FireFox. Is the feature you're referring to the one shown here in this screenshot? I like that it looks like you can have all cookies immediately delete except for say your bank account or whatever else you want to not have to re-enter settings each

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Re: Anyone using Apple's Private Relay? - 7 weeks ago

Interesting. Sounds like it's still pretty beta then, if major carriers are blocking it. Quotesekker Comes on automatically - and gets shut off by AT&T and others. This visibility into how my internet traffic is being monitored and stored is interesting and good for consumers. When Apple offers a true integrated VPN that cannot be overruled, I'll be all-in.

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Anyone using Apple's Private Relay? - 7 weeks ago

I've never looked into it until today, as it's part of the paid version of iCloud (I've stuck with the free 5Gb all these years). But a business partner is overly sensitive about using any website that uses cookies, and I'm looking for a solution (probably Chrome with one of its cookie-deleting extensions). But it got me wondering about Private Relay. Anyone using it?

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Re: Still on the Fence? Dual-Nozzle Luxe Bidet Attachment $20 - 2 months ago

Quotewurm I'm very tempted. Trying to figure out if it will fit as the vanity might be in the way. Also, is the gap between bowl and seat problematic? Seems like it would be uneven and wobbly with the bidet in place. I just measured mine, wurm, and it sticks out 4 inches on the left side (as you're looking down on the toilet). The gap can be problematic, depending on the seat design. But n

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Re: Still on the Fence? Dual-Nozzle Luxe Bidet Attachment $20 - 2 months ago

I'm like a broken record on this, but I'll say it again: once you install a bidet (and yes, I use LUXE ones), you'll forever use them and it'll be the first thing you re-install if you ever move. Bought my first one in '98, and never looked back (that sounds like an unintentional joke). The alternative will feel like caveman days.

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Re: Costco Members: 86" LG UQ8000 Series 4K UHD LED TV + $75 Streaming Credit= $1000 - 2 months ago

This TV uses Edge-Lit LED tech. Is that the same as OLED?

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Ventura Great Thing: ability to see and group delete Unknown Senders in Messages - 2 months ago

If you use the desktop version of Messages a lot, you'll like the new ability to View only Unknown Senders (spam, 2FA texts, etc) and then Command-A highlight all and delete them. Keeps things a lot tidier.

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Re: Ventura upgraders: any way to email a Safari page via keyboard shortcuts like before? - 3 months ago

QuoteTiangou If so then you can just use the Keyboard preferences... Hey, that worked. I've remapped dozens of app menubar shortcuts, but Ventura's new "Email Link To This Page" isn't actually in the menubar, but buried in a drop-down window that appears when you select Filehare... But App Shortcuts still picked it up. Yay! Thanks for the suggestion.

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Ventura upgraders: any way to email a Safari page via keyboard shortcuts like before? - 3 months ago

With the 13.0.1 upgrade, Safari seems to have removed the menubar options to email this link or this page, which both could be given a keyboard shortcut. I would constantly use Command-Shift-I to quickly email a link. ( I never used the Command-I to email the entire page with images, etc). Has anyone figured out a way to do that in Ventura without the menubar options now? The only way to do i

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Re: What's your take on Stage Manager? - 3 months ago

I certainly don't get it. But I didn't get Spaces either. I'm too wired to the Command-Spacebar to open apps, the Command-H to hide apps that I'm not using right now, and Command-Tab to switch between open apps. I also still like seeing all 4 sides of any open window, and never use the full screen option on any window (except movies). And just saying all this makes me feel old fashion.

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Re: something Wickan this way comes?!.....recall for AirWick air freshener...... - 3 months ago

Those ingredients are so damn toxic. Amazed they're still on the market.

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Re: Can Pages work for "outline text" design? Printer is asking for this with my Pages-created PDF - 3 months ago

QuoteTiangou If they ask for artwork with outlines, they circumvent the licensing/copyright issue. This is amazing. Did not know this.

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Re: Where do you Store all of you Images. MacBook Pro, Harddrive, Cloud? - 3 months ago

I'm constantly culling images and files, duplicates, just don't like the clutter. But for the rest that I want saved, I store on physical backup drives, and I use the $50/year Backblaze as online safety, as it'll backup any number of drives I tell it to.

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Re: Can Pages work for "outline text" design? Printer is asking for this with my Pages-created PDF - 3 months ago

Wow, this thread has been an education. Because I never had a need to work with printers that requested outline fonts, I never learned quite what that was or why it was needed. Blankity Blank's explanation finally made sense. I still don't grasp why a printer needs fonts to print something with letters, since it seems that letters are just one more vector design element in a photo/print. But

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Can Pages work for "outline text" design? Printer is asking for this with my Pages-created PDF - 3 months ago

I've always used Pages (v12.2, running on M1 Ventura) for all my designs for 10+ years, including posters, cardboard box design, and now a mylar pouch design. I add images, text, designed to the dieline template, then Export to PDF at BEST quality. But this manufacturer is asking the fonts to be "outline all text." Is there a way to do this? Why does he need this? And at last resort

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Ventura: can't get desktop notifications to show up without clicking on the menubar icon - 3 months ago

Upgraded to MacOS Ventura 13.0 last week, and the Notifications Alerts/Banners no long appear on my monitor unless I first click on the Clock/Notifications icon in the menubar. In the new Systems Settings: Notifications, I have all 3 of those top Show Previews (Always) checked on (Allow when display is sleeping, when screen is locked, when mirroring/sharing display). And each of the Applicati

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Ventura: any way to completely delete certain app's from Notifications? - 3 months ago

With Ventura, there are a lot more apps, websites, etc, that show up in the list of System Settings: Notifications. Yes, one can turn them off, but has anyone figured a way to delete them completely from the list?

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Ventura: Select multiple convos in Messages and Photos: select subject - 3 months ago

Three things I'm finding useful in Ventura: 1. Finally able to select multiple conversations in Messages to then right-click Delete them all. 2. Quick Look now works in Spotlight search results. Select any result, hit spacebar, and Quick Look shows that item. Even better, the up/down arrow continues showing each found result visually. 3. Photos. Select an image, hover over some human,

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Re: What’s New In macOS Ventura - 3 months ago

Quotegraylocks my favorite YouTube Apple explainer Gary at MacMost points out some new features. ... Gary is one of the best and clearest teachers of Mac stuff around. He needs to be more well-known.

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Re: Alison Krauss And Union Station - Gravity - 3 months ago

Baby, Now that I Found You (live) One of Alison's best, and such a wild twist on the original. (Originally written by The Foundations during the summer of '67. Still remember that version on the radio.)

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Re: For you Ventura Adventurers, wait 'till you see the much lauded Remind Me feature. It's. So. Bad. - 3 months ago

Quotedavemchine I’ve been using the feature where an email can be moved into the reminder list. It works but it is very clunky. I'm baffled that they didn't get it right. There've been 3rd-party apps that have done this for many years. All it needs to do is: 1. Take any email in the Inbox folder and hold it in a holding tank folder for xx period of time, at which time it places it back in

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For you Ventura Adventurers, wait 'till you see the much lauded Remind Me feature. It's. So. Bad. - 3 months ago

The biggest feature I was looking forward to with Ventura was Mail's new Remind Me, which is something I've wanted for over a decade. The need was was twofold: 1. Send an email with some question or task in it, and then to be able to mark that email to Remind Me in xx days to see if the receiver had followed up. 2. Receive an email in the Inbox and not able to/want to deal with it at the

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Re: China dumping dud chips on Russia (because Russia can’t get the good stuff due to sanctions)…. - 3 months ago

To be fair, those chips do work 60% of the time. That's more that half. So, thumbs up.

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