My mother was a newly-appointed 23 yr-old schoolteacher in a township in a dairy-farming area. She was lodging with a family about a quarter mile from the school, her only transport was an old bicycle.
One day she announced to her hosts that her brother-in-law's grandmother had died and the funeral was in two days time in a neighbouring town at 11am ?& she was desperate for a lift to attend.
To this her landlady responded, "Interesting co-incidence, John & I will be attending his cousin's funeral at the same time in the same town. Which church is it to be held at?"
They compared their notes and discovered they were planning to attend the same lady's funeral. Neither party had been aware of their respective family's semi-distant relationship before this.
After about nine or ten months of inactivity re updates, the Mac app MacTracker has had an update. This was much needed as all the new hardware had nothing in it since the introduction of the 2019 Retina MacBook Air in July of that year.
I’m yet to see an update of the iOS version of the app.
@variablepulserate Really? You might want to check your sums again.
App bundle is £6.99. Purchased individually the total is £8.98.
@variablepulserate A Finder or iCloud restoration would do all that, but such restorations (and the iMazing one) over-ride the proximity sensor setup.
// @matigo
Single lens iPhones (SE & XR) can only take Portrait-effect photos of humans, not animals or objects, unlike the phones with two or three cameras.
But an app called Halide Camera overcomes these issues as well as making RAW images possible. Absolutely awesome app, often paired with another called Spectre Camera. In fact, the two are available as a package for less cost than the same two bought separately.
Spectre brings long exposure capability to the iPhone, various modes including the ability to remove crowds.
@sumudu I have used that hold the phone nearby to set up, in the past 18 months, two HomePods, an iPod Touch, an iPad Mini & initially, this new iPhone SE.
/@matigo @variablepulserate
@variablepulserate That worked for the settings, but then I decided I wanted everything to be as close as possible & as soon as possible from a backup of the old SE. That’s why I chose to use the iMazing app, its restoration is a faster process than using the Finder or iCloud because the apps themselves are copied across as well, very few needed to updated manually.
/@matigo
@matigo It was in by default because I used the iMazing app on the Mac to set up the new phone as a restoration from a complete backup of the older phone.
Because the older phone already had all the photos on it & 15 GB per month is plenty of data, I set that option to on, reasoning that there’d be minimal data usage in maintaining the iCloud Photo Library. The new phone was exchanging lower quality pics for full-sized ones.
Goofed a bit when setting up the new iPhone SE, an iCloud Photos setting to use mobile data was turned on, this was a carryover from the backup of the old phone. It didn’t matter on that one it already had all the photos on board.
But this one was set to use full res pics cos it has enough space. I realised what I’d done when 4.5 GB of mobile data had gone in a few hours.
No problem, I still have 9.5GB left with 6 days until the next data top up. I have an average of 500 MB per day per month & has used a whole GB in the first 24 days.
@streakmachine I upgraded ASAP. Put in my order when the window opened at 10:01 pm Friday April 17th. Took four minutes for the transaction & confirmation.
It arrived 156 hours later. Black, 128GB, this time with AppleCare+. Because it can stand a dunking, I've decided not to fit a waterproof case.
I've bought a couple of iPhone 8 cases to use with it, one with a 2500mAh battery & one silicone floppy item to which I've attached a thin steel plate that aligns with the dashboard-mounted magnetic phone holder.