BUSINESS INSIDER: We’re about to enter the digital dark ages

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I hope you can read this, it’s pretty foreboding.?

John

We’re about to enter the digital dark ages
The long-promised digital apocalypse has finally arrived, and it was heralded by a blog post. Published on July 18, the post's headline sounded pretty arcane. "Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available," it declared.

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Re: Mac OS 15

#1927

Sorry. My computers can't handle even macOS 14.

I'd like to hear what others say, though.

Bill

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On Oct 15, 2024, at 16:47, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

Has anyone updated to macOS Sequoia 15.0.1?

Any concerns or problems?

Thanks.

Mac OS 15

#1926

Has anyone updated to macOS Sequoia 15.0.1?

Any concerns or problems?

Thanks.

Re: MASHABLE: Vulnerability found in Apple's Silicon M-series chips – and it can't be patched

#1925

This is a mighty late reply, but when I looked around to see if, maybe, the M4 chip fixed this bug, I did see that this prefetch vulnerability can only be exploited if the hacker had physical access to the device. So... I would guess you're safe.

Bill

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On Mar 23, 2024, at 13:49, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

I have an M1 iMac and an M2 MacBook Pro. I don’t think I do encryption- how much danger am I In? Can the access passwords?? Or password containers like LastPass?

On Mar 23, 2024, at 9:24?AM, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:

Bummer!  

John

Vulnerability found in Apple's Silicon M-series chips – and it can't be patched
Hackers can harvest encruption keys from Macs and MacBooks.
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Ad Blocker for Safari on iPhone

#1924

Good morning,

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Does anyone use any ad blocking software for Safari on the iPhone? I've seen a few (AdGuard, Wipr, AdBlock) and wanted to hear from someone with some "real world" experience with them to see what you use and how you like them.?

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Thanks!

Beth

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Article about Apple in today's Courier

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Analysis Is Apple thinking differently enough?

Looking for a used iPhone - not too old

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My older brother, 86, who lives in Connecticut, is in a nursing home/rehab facility. He will probably be there the rest of his life. He gets dialysis three times a week and is currently applying for medicaid. For the second time in 3 months he has lost his fairly new iPhone. He found it the first time but we have been searching for six weeks and have been unable to locate it. We contacted the dialysis center, the transportation company, the nursing home and the hospital where he is now - in a state of delirium due to who knows what - he clawed at his dialysis port and developed sepsis. 

He seems to be doing okay now and will be returning to the nursing home in a day or two.

Anyway we are looking for used cell phone to send to him. We plan to get a lanyard for it so he can keep it around his neck 24/7.

If any of you have an older unlocked iphone (or Verizon) you are not using and are willing to sell it to us reasonably it will be greatly appreciated. He just needs to be able to make/receive calls, texts and maybe do email so it doesn’t have to be sophisticated - just a decent battery and the ability to be wiped clean so I can reset it for him.

(A friend recently got a new iPhone and gave us her old iPhone 6s (11-12 years old). However she doesn’t know her iCloud password so we can’t wipe the phone - we can’t even update the OS because it requires a connection to a computer with iTunes!

Thanks to everyone on this list for all you do.

Harry

Re: Apple Mail and rules

#1921

Working via iCloud works, it’s just frustrating… kinda like it being 2024, but I still need to select letters on a querty keyboard using arrow keys on Netflix. Netflix: 21st century. Arrow keys: so much like Frogger in an arcade in the 1980’s. 

Bill

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On Aug 16, 2024, at 16:58, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

?Bill,
I suffer the same problems (Problem 1 and Problem 2) as you. I am interested in a solution.

One that I have thought about doing is putting my laptop on the table with my iMac and opening up the mail rules setting and just creating what’s on one computer on the other - but it seems so time consuming and I have other things I wish to do.

A second solution would be to take screen shots of the rules on computer A and using the shots to create the rules on computer B but again that seems time consuming, etc.

On Aug 16, 2024, at 1:30?PM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:

Hi all,

I have a question about Apple Mail and rules and devices.

Suppose I have two devices.

Problem 1: If my rules are on device 1, but I open device 2, then the rules do not get applied.
Problem 2: There does not appear to be any way to sync rules across devices

Solution: I put them directly on my iCloud account (via the web interface), so they will get applied no matter what device I use. This works well enough that I now have somewhere between 100 and 200 rules.

Downside: The web interface for the rules is so weak, it resembles Coors Light. There is no way to search for a rule. There is no way to sort rules. Sorting rules by hand is slooooow, and seems to not stick, unless you want to move one rule per day, and then wait for the order to become fixed. (I once tried sorting rules by hand, but the time it takes to stick is long enough that I ended up with a mess.)

Question: Does anyone know a quicker or better way to work with iCloud's rules (other than forwarding all their email to another server and applying rules there)?

Thanks,

Bill

Re: Apple Mail and rules

#1920

Bill,
I suffer the same problems (Problem 1 and Problem 2) as you. I am interested in a solution. 

One that I have thought about doing is putting my laptop on the table with my iMac and opening up the mail rules setting and just creating what’s on one computer on the other - but it seems so time consuming and I have other things I wish to do.

A second solution would be to take screen shots of the rules on computer A and using the shots to create the rules on computer B but again that seems time consuming, etc.

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On Aug 16, 2024, at 1:30?PM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:

Hi all,

I have a question about Apple Mail and rules and devices.

Suppose I have two devices.

Problem 1: If my rules are on device 1, but I open device 2, then the rules do not get applied. 
Problem 2: There does not appear to be any way to sync rules across devices

Solution: I put them directly on my iCloud account (via the web interface), so they will get applied no matter what device I use. This works well enough that I now have somewhere between 100 and 200 rules.

Downside: The web interface for the rules is so weak, it resembles Coors Light. There is no way to search for a rule. There is no way to sort rules. Sorting rules by hand is slooooow, and seems to not stick, unless you want to move one rule per day, and then wait for the order to become fixed. (I once tried sorting rules by hand, but the time it takes to stick is long enough that I ended up with a mess.)

Question: Does anyone know a quicker or better way to work with iCloud's rules (other than forwarding all their email to another server and applying rules there)?

Thanks,

Bill

Apple Mail and rules

#1919

Hi all,

I have a question about Apple Mail and rules and devices.

Suppose I have two devices.

Problem 1: If my rules are on device 1, but I open device 2, then the rules do not get applied. 
Problem 2: There does not appear to be any way to sync rules across devices

Solution: I put them directly on my iCloud account (via the web interface), so they will get applied no matter what device I use. This works well enough that I now have somewhere between 100 and 200 rules.

Downside: The web interface for the rules is so weak, it resembles Coors Light. There is no way to search for a rule. There is no way to sort rules. Sorting rules by hand is slooooow, and seems to not stick, unless you want to move one rule per day, and then wait for the order to become fixed. (I once tried sorting rules by hand, but the time it takes to stick is long enough that I ended up with a mess.)

Question: Does anyone know a quicker or better way to work with iCloud's rules (other than forwarding all their email to another server and applying rules there)?

Thanks,

Bill

Re: Scanning slides

#1918

That was it Lee. Thanks.

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On Aug 14, 2024, at 2:26?PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

On Aug 13, 2024, at 7:26?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

So I set the number of samples from one to two and no change - still get the white on the second scan. Then I changed it to three and now the third scan is the white screen.
Maybe you have Infrared clean turned on in the Filter menu. This will cause an extra infra-red pass that VueScan uses for its own clone of the Digital ICE dust and scratch mitigation.

L^2

PS/ VueScan does not use Digital ICE because the patent is owned by Kodak, and Kodak apparently charges a lot for it.

Re: Scanning slides

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On Aug 13, 2024, at 7:26?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

So I set the number of samples from one to two and no change - still get the white on the second scan. Then I changed it to three and now the third scan is the white screen.

Maybe you have Infrared clean turned on in the Filter menu. This will cause an extra infra-red pass that VueScan uses for its own clone of the Digital ICE dust and scratch mitigation.

L^2

PS/ VueScan does not use Digital ICE?because the patent is owned by Kodak, and Kodak apparently charges a lot for it.

Re: Scanning slides

#1916

So I set the number of samples from one to two and no change - still get the white on the second scan. Then I changed it to three and now the third scan is the white screen.

Oh well.
Thanks Lee

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On Aug 13, 2024, at 6:18?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

Lee,
I checked  my app. I always use the professional option. My number of samples was set to 1 - so I don’t know why the second pass. I’m going to set it to 2 and see if that makes a difference. I’ll get back to you.

Harry

On Aug 12, 2024, at 9:00?PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

On Aug 11, 2024, at 4:14?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

I am scanning slides with my new (to me) Epson V600 photo scanner. It’s doing a great job. But it does something I don’t understand.

It scans the slide twice - 1st time is normal but the second is a blank white but the image of the side is barely visible - It’s almost like a translucent white mask over the slide. Yet when I save the slide the white isn’t visible at all - there is only one image not two.
With the “Professional” options chosen in VueScan, there is a field in which you can set the number of passes. It’s called “Number of samples”. I always use two or three because that seems to give better color. I haven't noticed any difference with more.

L^2

Re: Scanning slides

#1915

I ran an update on the Epson Scan software and now it sees the V600 - thanks.

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On Aug 12, 2024, at 8:54?PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

On Aug 11, 2024, at 4:31?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

I thought I would give Epson Scan 2 a shot at scanning slides on the Epson V600 scanner but it doesn’t see the scanner which is directly connected to my Mac. It  only sees the Epson printer/scanner which is connected through wifi. 

I don’t think the V600 can be connected via network.

I have looked through the Epson software but don’t see an option to connect to a scanner that is connected to the Mac via us.
My Epson Scan 2 sees the USB-connected V600 without a problem. Try running the Epson Scan 2 Utility to see if there’s a ghost scanner in the list.

L^2

Re: Epson Scan 2

#1914

Lee,
I checked  my app. I always use the professional option. My number of samples was set to 1 - so I don’t know why the second pass. I’m going to set it to 2 and see if that makes a difference. I’ll get back to you.

Harry

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On Aug 12, 2024, at 9:00?PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

On Aug 11, 2024, at 4:14?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

I am scanning slides with my new (to me) Epson V600 photo scanner. It’s doing a great job. But it does something I don’t understand.

It scans the slide twice - 1st time is normal but the second is a blank white but the image of the side is barely visible - It’s almost like a translucent white mask over the slide. Yet when I save the slide the white isn’t visible at all - there is only one image not two.
With the “Professional” options chosen in VueScan, there is a field in which you can set the number of passes. It’s called “Number of samples”. I always use two or three because that seems to give better color. I haven't noticed any difference with more.

L^2

Re: Epson Scan 2

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On Aug 11, 2024, at 4:31?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

I thought I would give Epson Scan 2 a shot at scanning slides on the Epson V600 scanner but it doesn’t see the scanner which is directly connected to my Mac. It ?only sees the Epson printer/scanner which is connected through wifi.?

I don’t think the V600 can be connected via network.

I have looked through the Epson software but don’t see an option to connect to a scanner that is connected to the Mac via us.

My Epson Scan 2 sees the USB-connected V600 without a problem. Try running the Epson Scan 2 Utility to see if there’s a ghost scanner in the list.

L^2

Re: Scanning slides

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On Aug 11, 2024, at 4:14?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

I am scanning slides with my new (to me) Epson V600 photo scanner. It’s doing a great job. But it does something I don’t understand.

It scans the slide twice - 1st time is normal but the second is a blank white but the image of the side is barely visible - It’s almost like a translucent white mask over the slide. Yet when I save the slide the white isn’t visible at all - there is only one image not two.

With the “Professional” options chosen in VueScan, there is a field in which you can set the number of passes. It’s called “Number of samples”. I always use two or three because that seems to give better color. I haven't noticed any difference with more.

L^2

Epson Scan 2

#1911

I thought I would give Epson Scan 2 a shot at scanning slides on the Epson V600 scanner but it doesn’t see the scanner which is directly connected to my Mac. It  only sees the Epson printer/scanner which is connected through wifi. 

I don’t think the V600 can be connected via network.

I have looked through the Epson software but don’t see an option to connect to a scanner that is connected to the Mac via us.

Scanning slides

#1910

I am scanning slides with my new (to me) Epson V600 photo scanner. It’s doing a great job. But it does something I don’t understand.

It scans the slide twice - 1st time is normal but the second is a blank white but the image of the side is barely visible - It’s almost like a translucent white mask over the slide. Yet when I save the slide the white isn’t visible at all - there is only one image not two.

Can anyone explain what’s going on - cause this method takes twice as long!!

BTW I am using the lastest version of VueScan to do the scanning.

Re: Scanner give away

#1909

Harry, 

Seattle Filmworks would buy motion picture film, splice it together when people returned it, process it in long rolls in cine processors and then “contact print" it to motion picture print film. It was then cut up and mounted in slide mounts. It was the best that Hollywood had access to at the time, but was too many steps for simple slides in my book and I never shot much of it. 

The film code would be on the edge of the negatives, and the print code would be on the edge of the film if you freed one of the slides from its mount.

If you can find a process that you will convert the negatives I would not even mess with the slides unless you don’t have the original negative. You will get sharper, richer results. The trick would be in getting the color balance just right, because of minor variations in the emulsions used in Hollywood.

If you can tweak one of the existing profiles to work well with the negatives, I think your results should be awesome.

There are other ways of converting negatives and slides to digital images, including just holding the slide up before a white background and shooting it on a recent phone with a good camera. The resolutions in today’s cameras I would think would exceed what you could get with most flat bed scanners. There were some, though, that did have pretty high resolution.

Slide Scan App is one that I have seen ads for lately, although there are likely others:

Apps like that make it pretty easy because they automatically white balance and square up the image without any extra effort. I do not know how they work with negatives, though. A little more online research might yield up that answer as well.

Jonathan

On Aug 8, 2024, at 8:57 PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

On Aug 8, 2024, at 10:30?AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

Please tell us about Silverfast.Here are a few sites that compare them.

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I find myself using VueScan most often. I finish off the scans in Pixelmator Pro.

I’ve been slowly scanning a huge collection of negatives and slides made by my parents and me. Many of those from my parents and a few of mine were shot during the 1980s and 1990s onto Seattle Filmworks 35mm film. The film was apparently movie film of some type that SFW would buy by the mile and cut into 36 exposure lengths.

Does anyone know the correct Kodak film type to set in order to scan these slides and negatives?

L^2

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