The Chronicles of Noivad

Author: Noivad

  • How search from anywhere should work

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    Currently, if you want to search for a term, you open a fresh webpage and type the query. One level beyond that, you copy-paste the terms from wherever it appears. In my Alfred Workflow, I search simply by highlighting text and hitting option-? That is, if you use Alfred and download my workflow https://github.com/noivad/alfred_workflows/releases/tag/Alfred .…

  • Music In Tahoe: Hellish

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    The Biggest Problems with MacOS Tahoe’s Music.app A lot has been written about MacOS 16‘s (Tahoe) strengths and features, but little about how it actually is to navigate around the various included apps. The one most people will be familiar with is Music.app, that prior to the rename was called iTunes. This app is a…

  • Coming “Soon”: What’s wrong with masOS Tahoe Music app!

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    Tahoe, saw a huge UI update to the Finder and other bundled apps. In short, so much was messed with Apple’s refresh of the UI to “Glass” it needs a who article talking about what’s wrong with it. macOS 26, Usually an update improves the speed, ease of use, and adds features that are powerful…

  • #StupidAppleTricks: The Video

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    On macOS the padding between icons and other element could be tighter. If you want to make the most of your screen real estate every em matters. Apple tends to use 4em or more for spacing between elements. This is far too much. At half that, elements are is still distinctly separated, and the desktop…

  • MacOS: First App Installations

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    Owning a computer opens up a whole world of possibilities. But in this world a lot of people don’t know about time savers and conveniences that us seasoned Mac Users (40 year in my case) have found on our journeys throughout the internet. There are a lot of articles about what to install first, I…

  • thanks for all the fish

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    …the new posting UI is horrid…

  • Why It is Stupid to Buy a SmartTV

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    There are no regulations concerning what information can & cannot be collected with smart devices, nor how that information is transmitted. This article from the BBC explains how LG’s SmartTV sends the names of his family members in clear text across the internet— something that most people would be uncomfortable having publicly available. Besides selling your private information to any…

  • Tech Crime & Punishment

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    In a recent article Sophos had a poll asking what the appropriate sentence for tech related fraud — such as fake “Windows Support” call saying you have a virus and asking for $300 to fix it over the phone. I have covered what to do with any unsolicited phone calls before (The “short” answer: do not believe any…

  • Email Worst Practices

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    I had to send this “support request” email today because of some seriously bad error in judgement when someone hit the sent button today. Seriously folks, this is 2014… have web companies and their employees learned nothing? Hi, this morning I got an email asking me to click a link embedded in the email to verify…

  • Crackers are getting help from sloppy updates to web sites… change your passwords

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    I was going to push an article about something completely different that has been on the back burner for a good amount of time, but this is more important. Sorry for the lack of detail and my terse tone, but I expect better of large sites making amateur moves. I’m not saying I have never…