Up until a few years ago, I used to feel good when sharing Twitter links. Compared to the other handful of websites that now make up our entire lives, it was the best option: Not a walled garden like Facebook or Instagram where you either don’t see any content at all or are bomba … | Continue reading
These damn Electron apps draining our battery!Also running and actively being used: Slack Visual Studio Code Chrome 1Password | Continue reading
If you have AirTags in the vicinity of your iPad it drains its battery for no reason.The past months I’ve been wondering why my iPad Pro always needed to be recharged when I used to use it without charging for weeks.I’m not the only one: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/unusu … | Continue reading
In most cases this works amazingly well, except when it doesn’t. | Continue reading
Guess what happens if you click on the profile picture or “Justin”?If you — like I did myself — guessed that it opens the Apple Music profile of the person (like it’s the case for all other instances where you see someone’s profile picture in the Music.app) you’d be wrong.What ac … | Continue reading
Fuchen writes: In order to use Finder.app, you have to first learn the basics of graphic design. Because if you don’t, how would you be able to tell the positive space of an icon from the negative space of it, and click on the correct area in order to select the item?Apparently t … | Continue reading
Wouldn’t it be great if iMessage could also show me what is amazing, instead of only the tweet that says there is something amazing? Quote Tweets have been a thing since early 2015. iMessage has had Link Previews since iOS 10, i.e. late 2016. Over four years, and it still can’t p … | Continue reading
As the most annoying year in recent history draws to a close, we wanted to look back on it a bit – it was the first full year of us doing this fun little blogging project. A huge shoutout to the grumpy website, which inspired us to start documenting all the annoying things we use … | Continue reading
Adnan Aga (Thanks for the submission!) wonders – if Apple Pay is so great, why can’t it be used to buy AppleCare? I don’t want to overuse this old quote from Tim Cook, but that would seem like such an obvious integration. | Continue reading
This image has three components: On the left is an OCR’ed PDF from my ScanSnap iX500. I have selected most of the text, and on the right side you can see two copy&paste results. In the upper half is the result directly after scanning, right after the bundled ABBYY FineReader that … | Continue reading
Remember when you could reboot your computer without rebooting your phone first?I’m not even kidding: I needed to reboot my Mac because I was unable to navigate character by character using the arrow keys when composing new iMessages in Big Sur, but Finder refused to quit during … | Continue reading
I’m using the iOS Bedtime feature for years now. With yesterday’s iOS 14 update the feature got moved from the Clock app to the Health app. Unfortunately the migration is done by disabling your existing alarm and showing a button to open the Health app to set it up again.I woke u … | Continue reading
The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”The first generation of the AirPods was generally regarded as a perfect product. “Apple at its best!” was the universally accepted opinion.I used them for a long time. No speaker issues, no battery issues.Excited for the noise cancelling feature I orde … | Continue reading
Since macOS 10.12 there’s a bug in Apple Mail that causes it to randomly become the frontmost application. If you are in full screen mode — like when you are giving a talk or watching a movie — it opens itself up in split view mode where it takes up half the screen while your oth … | Continue reading
Setting the scene: Imagine you are moving a playlist or deleting a track from a playlist. A second later you realize your mistake and want to revert that action.What’s the shortcut you’d reach for first? For me it would be Cmd + Z, the universal shortcut for “Undo that last chang … | Continue reading
For months I have been wondering why on a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro the fans would always spin up like crazy when a simple Time Machine backup was running. It also seemed really odd to me that almost always when I checked, it would show several GB of data being backed up – I ra … | Continue reading
Things I want to do when I download software: Download software Things I don’t want to do when I download software: “Share” my download with friends Sign up for conference news Learn about other useful business software Sign up for services with my credit card Have my software s … | Continue reading
People who use 2FA know that the chances of your token being a nanosecond from being expired every time you open your password manager are extremely high. | Continue reading
Annoying Technology curates the daily annoyances in the technologies surrounding us. | Continue reading