![]() A conventional computer bag is too bulky to fit in my limited van space. I don’t have a conventional computer bag. Man purse? Computer bag? I’m not sure what to call it. The whole time we used my computer as a television and the incredible sound capabilities made this much nicer. We stayed at a friend’s condo in Redondo Beach for 3 weeks over the holidays. The speakers are also something that needs to be heard to be believed. The MacBook will last with me using it as much as I want until the next day. I’m usually able to charge the laptop after the van’s batteries have been topped off and don’t need any more power. This is really important in a van when off the grid. It makes working on big projects much less painful. I have one of the new 16” M1 MacBook Pro’s. My favorite is sitting in a chair outside as long as the glare isn’t too bad. Right now, I’m sitting in the back of the van on my couch which converts into my bed at night. Sometimes I sit in the passenger seat of the van. Boondocking is typically done on public lands and is free. That is where you don’t have any hookups for electric or water. The picnic table is a rare treat since we mostly do what is called boondocking. My lap is my desk and when sometimes a picnic table. Wouldn’t it be great if you had a full office with full-size keyboard, monitor, printer, and the works while living in a van? No chance. ![]() That doesn’t leave a lot of space for an office to do software development. My wife and our 2 cats are also traveling with me. Part of the year I live out of my self-converted E-250 Campervan. ![]() Between that and the new Mac hardware, it looks to me like they are very focused on the success of the Mac. It looks like Apple is working to leverage the popularity of the iPhone and the iPad to win over users. Lots of the same people who are critical of recent macOS changes are also the same ones who are frustrated that Apple isn’t doing enough to grow the Mac user base. My guess is that we will see the rest of the move more this direction again next year.īecause so many more people own an iPhone than a Mac, making Macs easier for iPhone owners to use is a good strategy. I haven’t read Apple’s HIG yet this year so that could be it. It also doesn’t feel like it fits in quite right with the rest of macOS. I know that style of navigation sounds very iOS like, but the column view in Finder works that way too. For example, if you have the right pointing chevron, it should animate you that direction. It feels clunky, like it is missing some animations. I can find the setting that I want much easier now. But making it like the iOS ones reduces cognitive load when switching back and forth a lot more than I thought it would. I know a lot of people were critical, myself included, about basing the design of the System Settings on the iOS ones. Now that I’ve actually used it, I appreciate the design decision that was made. ![]() It looked too much like you would see on Windows or Linux for me. ($49.95 new from Red Sweater Software or the Mac App Store, 15.9 MB, release notes, macOS 10.I have to admit, when I saw screenshots of Ventura’s new System Settings stuff, I was very unimpressed. Shortly after this release, Red Sweater issued two maintenance releases to fix a bug that prevented changes like setting categories from working when editing an existing WordPress post and address a performance issue that could occur when publishing to a blog with a large number of posts (version 4.4.1), plus address a crash while adding a new blog (version 4.4.2). The blog editor also restores the capability to type to select items in the Media Manager’s icon view, returns drag-and-drop capability from the Published tab of the Media Manager, and ensures the View on Web menu item is enabled whenever a published blog post is selected. The release adds the Micro.blog platform as an officially supported publishing system, enabling you to edit Page and Post type entries, send Draft status posts to the server, and download the entire history of posts. Red Sweater Software released MarsEdit 4.4 with improved performance for blog refreshing, now showing posts as they load when possible. #1643: New Mac mini and MacBook Pro models, new second-gen HomePod, security-focused OS updates, industry layoffs.#1644: Explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse, HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, GoTo breach.#1645: AirPlay iPhone to Mac for remote video, Siri learns to restart iPhones, Apple's Q1 2023 financials.1646: Security-focused OS updates, Photos Workbench review, Mastodon client wishlist, Apple-related conferences.1647: Focus-caused notification issues, site-specific browser examples, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macs. ![]()
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