Out of the blue, this appeared in my YouTube feed: a cover of The Doors Riders On The Storm by Foggy Mountain Spaceship.
Featuring Chris Elliott - 5-String Electric Banjo and Vocals; Chris Sheldon - Banjotron Acoustikit 2000 and Kyle Ussery - BS-1 BanjoSynth.
Apple have very quietly released the AirTag 2 with 1.5 X greater detection range and a speaker that’s 50% louder compared to the original. Prices are unchanged.
The State Library of Victoria (the world’s third-busiest public library) has a function room dedicated to the Library’s first listed female staff member who they employed as a library assistant in 1908 at the age of 27. By 1931 she had attained a Batchelor of Arts degree. She never married but all her nieces, nephews and their descendants regarded themselves as “children of her mind.”
How do I know this? Simple: she was one of my maternal grandmother’s older sisters. Her mind was as sharp as ever when her body failed her in 1969 at the age of 88.
Took the old car (2012 Mazda 2) to get a wheel alignment as I realised on a trip yesterday that there was a shimmy/vibration in the steering that shouldn't exist. The front tyres had to go as well as one was almost down to its tread depth wear bars and the other had a slash in the sidewall.
Next week the brakes are getting checked as the pedal is too spongy then the following day it's going to a panel shop to fix the buggered right front fender.
My home suburb is expecting a high temperature of 42°C today. I’m down south, beside the sea where the maximum expected temperature is 32°C. With a reasonably strong onshore breeze.
A Setapp-sourced app I use called Al Dente Pro, which I use to regulate laptop battery health (charges to a maximum of 80% with my chosen settings, for example) has picked up a handy trick with the latest update. I generally set the MacBook Air to use low power mode when running on its battery but some apps, Handbrake being one of them, work faster on full power.
Now with Al Dente Pro if I right-click on its menubar icon, I can toggle between low and full power modes.
@japchap I'll dig out one of my old G3 or G4 PowerBooks that run the Tiger version of Mac OSX and check, pretty sure it's an original OSX feature.
I have been using the Web Receipt arrangement available via the macOS Print dialog (under the PDF section) since 2006. In order to keep track of online purchases I have maintained separate annual listings since 2012 on both my Apple desktop and laptop computers. As it’s now the first day of 2026, I have consolidated all of the 2025 receipts into a separate folder within the Web Receipts folder.
If you have never used the Web Receipts process, you won’t find the folder anywhere on your Mac, it’s created within the Documents folder the first time you save a PDF to that location. See attachment for more detail on the saving process.
My Xmas was for the first time in 67 years, celebrated alone. I inherited the fibre optic tree I bought for my parents 30+ years ago (I just can’t stand the smell of pine trees) but I just couldn’t be bothered setting it up.
I did get myself a special gift, though. A reversible black/brown elasticised belt with a velcro closing setup, no buckles to get in the way. Wore it for the first time today and very satisfied with it.