Sat in on a Zoom meeting about Photography. Idiot unprepared presenter first held up his iPhone to the camera, asking if we could see it. No, it was hiding in his virtual background image. He said he'd taken a selfie & would show it by the magic of iCloud by logging-in to the meeting from his iPad & sharing the screen of that, his reasoning being that greater screen area would work better as a shared screen.
This chap was otherwise using a Windows 10 laptop with the Zoom client on it.
I knew for a fact that both the Windoze & Mac clients could use screenshare to show an iPad or iPhone's screen and was trying, politely to let him know of this method. Zoom does iOS screensharing in a seriously weird way from the iOS client software & I knew it was going to confuse the fuck out of him.
I gave up being polite. I announced to the other participants that there was a far better way to display what he wanted & if he wasn't prepared to listen or even acknowledge my efforts, then I was leaving the meeting.
He's normally much better prepared than this episode would suggest.
Fuckwit.
Two ladies of my acquaintance, one who's experienced family violence first hand and one of her four sisters have posted the following on Facebook:
"Anyone…
If you're stuck in quarantine with a toxic or abusive partner, message me about MY MAKE UP RANGE and I will know to continually check in on you.
If you ask me about PLACING AN ORDER AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS, I will know to contact the police.
There has been a 40% increase in domestic violence cases since this quarantine. Please don't be afraid to reach out."
I am so proud of this stance from my cousins.
@phoneboy My first webcam was a Mini DV video camera connected via Firewire to a G3 iMac. Excellent video quality & a stereo microphone were mose helpful.
// @joeo10
@joeo10 I'm glad I kept my Logitech c615 1080p webcam, it's a godsend with videoconferencing on the MacBook Pro & iMac which have a very ordinary 720p FaceTime camera.
Back when there was a decent Logitech Webcam app, I could select a number of different resolutions or even use it as an 8 MP stills camera.
After Saturday's virtual Mac User Group meeting via Zoom, I observed the Plantronics headset I'd had since 2012 had lost virtually all of the foam padding on the earpieces, making it incredibly uncomfortable to use.
I looked into getting replacement cushions but that headset is obsolete now. Others of the same brand looked like they might fit but there was no guarantee.
Any I did but were either priced too high or packaged with too many inside. EG: a pair of cushions for $23 or 10 pairs for $18. Plus the delivery time meant I'd have to endure the hard plastic earpieces for two to three weeks.
Bit the bullet, bought a Logitech H390 headset on Sunday, it arrived today.
Collected the new HomePod today, got it home & it needed a 1.69 GB download of the latest OS before I could set it up as part of a paired HomePod stereo set.
Thorough;y impressed with the distortion-free full volume capability, plus the paired set has a much higher volume level than just one HomePod.
Single HomePods do work in stereo but the separation is no greater than the width of the device.
I’d been holding off putting Catalina on the iMac, cos I still wanted to access some old 32-bit apps, mostly games. Then I read an article on Apple News thet indicated for a Mac to participate with file & folder sharing in its iCloud drive, it had to be running 10.15.4. This was the impetus for upgrading. I had been cloning the iMac to an external SSD, that being a 512 GB item extracted from the dead & drowned MacBook Air. The SSD was put into an OWC Envoy case for use as an ext drive.
This drive has become my way to access those 32-bit thingies & a new 500 GB Seagate SSD was purchased this morning for a mere $99. SuperDuper! app is making its first clone right now.