Apple AirPods to get hearing aid style function
Writing in the subscriber edition of his regular Power On newsletter, Gurman claims that the “big news” for AirPods Pro in the near term will be support for a hearing aid-style function when iOS 18 drops in the fall.
Geeking out with the Vice C64 emulator on Apple Silicon
Trying out Vice on Apple Silicon. I’ve been wanting to fire up some old games.
Using HomeBrew to install Mikrotik Winbox for m2 Mac
I recently upgraded to an Apple Macbook m2 from my intel based Mac. One thing I use regularly is Winbox. In order to install Winbox on an Apple Silicon Mac you simply need to follow these steps. The window resizing …
Packets Down Range #17:Cogent Wavelengths, earnings news, DDoS
I am fresh back from Nanog #87 in Atlanta. Great times! Thank you to those who gave me some lines on this week’s news articles. Keep those submissions coming. By now, everyone who has signed up should be receiving this …
Tech Tip: New features Apple Mail for macOS Ventura
For those of you running Apple Mall under the new macOS Ventura (13) below are some of the new features. Undo send. After you send an email, you have a few seconds to unsend it to make corrections or other …
Packets Down Range #3: Patreon Edition
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VMware Fusion and MacOS Big Sur
While doing some work tonight I received an update notification from VMware Fusion, which I use to run Windows 10 inside Mac OS. • Fusion 11 can not run on macOS 11 Big Sur because it depends on Kernel Extensions …
Apple adds Back Tap
Back Tap turns the entire back of your iPhone into a giant touch-sensitive button that you can double or triple tap to trigger specific functions on your phone. There’s a good chance that you haven’t noticed it yet. Apple slipped …
Mounting old file system CDs on MacOS Catalina
Recently I had an issue with mounting older CD-Roms of backup files and such on MacOSX Catalina. Apparently, Apple dropped support for HFS volumes. In order to fix this it is pretty easy. You will need HomeBrew. Being a network …
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