Apple How I Almost Switched From Spotify to Apple Music In this post, I outline how I became excited about ditching Spotify for Apple Music, but then found more and more things that were broken or felt unfinished—or just didn’t work the way I expected them to work.
macOS Copying The Current Safari Tab as a Clickable Link In this post, I outline how to quickly copy the URL and title of the active Safari tab as a clickable link, a convenient feature for referencing web pages in emails, to-do lists, documentation, and messaging platforms like Slack.
macOS Fixing Date and Time for Photos and Videos Saved from WhatsApp When saving media from WhatsApp, it lacks an Exif timestamp which will make your media appear out of order in your photo library. This post explains how ExifTool can be used to create the Exif DateTimeOriginal field from the filename.
Retro Computing Opening Screenshots From a Vintage Macintosh in Modern macOS Apple’s System 6 stored its screenshots in MacPaint format. Learn how to open them in recent versions of macOS.
macOS Restoring WireGuard Tunnel Configurations From a macOS Backup On macOS, WireGuard stores its tunnel configurations in the login keychain. This post explains how to extract them from a backup.
macOS How to Fix Broken Search in Apple Mail After Upgrading to Big Sur Upgrading to macOS Big Sur broke search in Apple Mail for me. In this post, I explain different solutions that might fix this.
macOS Using FFmpeg to Create HEVC Videos That Work on Apple Devices The HEVC (H.265) video codec will produce smaller file sizes at the same level of video quality. FFmpeg can create those files, however, a certain tag is needed for the files to be recognized by Apple software.
