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March 11, 2021
March 11, 2020 at 3:32 PM: A Year Ago Today
In the days leading up to March 11, 2020 emails flew fast and furious. The first COVID case in Connecticut, formations of task forces up and down the hierarchy of my work, ever compiling campus directives, blocks on institutionally funded travel, recommendations against personal travel, and campus events with over 100 people cancelled....
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November 11, 2022
Stage Manager respects Spaces "Assign To" setting
If you have tried Stage Manager on macOS Ventura and have wondered why some apps never seem to work as you would expect — check the app's "Assign To" setting. This setting only appears if you have more than one Space and is accessed by right clicking the Dock icon and selection Options →Assign To. If you have an app set to "All Desktop...
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October 28, 2022
Web Control browser extension must be enabled by the user
Filled under insanity, absurdity, and enterprise software at its horrible best. I present this McAfee tech note on how to enable Endpoint Security Web Control in the various browsers touched by users. No matter it ignores Safari, which doesn’t allow programatic enabling of extensions — but it does show the main reason why so many enter...
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October 28, 2022
Open the Doors
Awhile ago Basecamp added a new feature called “Doors” — it’s an extension of the their “Cloud Files” linking feature but on the project level. Allowing for linking out to any arbitrary URL directly from the list of tools. Along with this new functionality cloud files was also expanded — adding numerous more supported services. This is...
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January 10, 2022
Mac App Archives: NewsFire
A friend of mine once said "I've forgotten more than I remember.". I feel this about Mac apps that I have used — ones that were once the center of my daily computing life now lost to the digital wasteland. So, I thought maybe I dig up the ones I can remember and at this point the ones I can still find. I was setting up the new NetNewsW...
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January 4, 2022
Mac App Archives: Fontcase
Anyone remember Fontcase? The app by the people behind Sketch... here's an article from 2009 about the process of designing version one. I used to be very particular with my font management — back in the day when having too many loaded would bring apps to their digital knees or a mangled font file would induce entire system crashes. Th...
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March 16, 2021
Microsoft Meh-sh
It would be Microsoft to present a smooth "vision video" example of their upcoming Mesh product from an event that looks like a Windows 95 screensaver. The reality vs the concept...
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