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One major failing in macOS Tahoe's enhanced Spotlight app launcher that replaced the Launchpad app is that it needs to reindex to recognise newly-installed apps. this meand that newly installed apps don't show up in the search until the reindexing has been done.
Well, I have found an inexpensive replacement for Launchpad.
It's called LaunchOS, available from launchosapp.com in either a 7-day trial or paid Pro versions. I’d recommend the Pro level as it’s inexpensive, has lifetime licences and at present the Black Friday 20% (for 2 Macs) and 40% (5 Macs) discounts still apply.
It does more than Launchpad, too. I’ve set a grid of 10 x 5 icons with a vertical scrollable window setup and Hot Corner activation. The attachment shows what you get by going Pro vs the free version.

I saved an incredible amount of money from all the Black Friday sales: by not buying anything…

English is silly.

Best seen, not heard
Writing poems which rhyme can be tricky and tough
for words often look like they're from the same bough,
yet the end of each line sounds quite different, though,
and best hidden behind a hiccough or cough.

I wonder, did this bother Byron or Yeats?
Or Larkin or Wordsworth, Auden or Keats?
Were opportunities presented or simply just threats?
Could they think up their rhymes without caveats?

But what should it matter when all's said and done
if you should read this as scone when I meant scone?
It's hardly a crime for which you need to atone;
it would all be baloney to an abalone.

So perhaps I should not be quite so afeard.
Some poems are best seen, rather than heard.

Brian Bilston

@variablepulserate The hurrier I go the behinder I get…

variablepulserate.10centuries.org.

Phoned one of my brothers who lives some 3 ½ hours away, asking if he’d be home this weekend, as I was free and hadn’t seen each other since a funeral in January.
He said that was a great idea, as he needed a lift to the capital city on Sunday afternoon, he’s booked a hotel room and will be having a minor back operation the following day.

I was grateful today for all the built-in safety-assist devices and setting s in the newer car today as I had a 45 minute drive to a friend’s place in very heavy rain. I set the adaptive cruise control to maintain a 3-second travel time gap to the next vehicle ahead of me. The rain was too heavy for the rain sensing wipers to cope, I had to use the high setting for that. By default, the car selected daytime running lights but in that mode the taillights aren’t on and it wasn’t dark enough for the auto headlights on to work. So I had to use the manual headlight override setting.

@matigo Not overly so.

matigo.ca.

I visited Marysville in Victoria last Saturday, about 2 hours away, to check out Steavenson falls. Various cascades join together with a drop of 84 metres, make the falls one of the highest in the state. At night, until 11 pm, they are floodlit, with the power for the lights generated by a small hydroelectric plant near the base of the falls.

Geekbench 6 results of CPU and GPU tests done on the 11-in iPad Air (M1) and the 11-in iPad Pro (M5) show significant improvements for the new device.

@japchap make things easier.

japchap.10centuries.org.