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            "title": "Dear Steve Lemay",
            "content_html": "<p>Dear Steve Lemay,<\/p>\n<p>Please consider paying some attention to fixing the user interface problems Jony Ive and Alan Dye have made during their years.<\/p>\n<p>This list is a mix of general interaction problems, performance issues, inconsistencies, missing feedback, data-loss bugs, and seemingly minor annoyances. These are the things I happen to encounter in my own workflows every day. Another user would produce another list, and that’s what worries me. No single person can even keep track of all the problems anymore. User interface quality has decayed at every level, from fundamental interaction design to tiny details that used to be polished.<\/p>\n<p>A matter of honour:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Fix scrolling and interaction during drag and drop. Mac has been famous for its great drag and drop support: everything stayed interactive during drag and drop. Now it works only sometimes. In Music, if I drag a new song and try to scroll the list to put the song in a particular place, it would not scroll. In Finder, if I drag a file, it usually lets me scroll, but no longer lets me press Space to open folders.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix drag and drop to the Dock according to Fitts’s Law. After the Dock has been detached from the screen edge, clicking the Dock icons at the very edge still works, but drag and drop to the Dock icons now requires precise aiming. The very fact that clicking still works means that somebody hard-coded this sloppily instead of actually architecting the hit area to extend to the screen edge.<\/li>\n  <li>In Liquid Glass, stop providing feedback on touch when the touch is not actually doing anything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Text input on Mac:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>When a typing suggestion appears, and I continue typing the very suggested text, the suggestion should not disappear. Let’s say I mean to enter the word “something”. I type “som”, the system suggests “ething”. If I miss the suggestion and continue typing “e”, the suggestion disappears. This happens all over the system including email and Safari address bar.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix text selection, where pressing ↑, ↓, Shift ↑, or Shift ↓ would sometimes stop extending selection for no reason.<\/li>\n  <li>Keyboard layout switching should be instantaneous on Mac. It has been painfully slow forever, this one is not Ive’s fault. When you switch layouts and start typing, a few characters may get entered in the previous layout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Text input on iPhone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>iPhone Keyboard has been slow to open and slow to type for many years. Sometimes it gets slightly better, sometimes slightly worse, but there is no reason for it not to be absolutely instant all the time.<\/li>\n  <li>When moving the text caret freely with the Space bar, it would sometimes land in a completely random place after I had positioned it exactly where I wanted. The same with adjusting selection.<\/li>\n  <li>When you select a piece of text (usually in Notes app) while the keyboard is not visible, there is no way to delete or cut it. So you have to tap to reveal the keyboard, which resets the selection.<\/li>\n  <li>When I tap in a text field, show the Cut \/ Copy \/ Paste controls immediately, instead of randomly between “immediately”, “in 1 second”, “never”, or “show some other set of controls”.<\/li>\n  <li>When pasting with Universal Clipboard, stop showing the dialog box with fake “pasting” progress bar after the text has already been pasted anyway.<\/li>\n  <li>Keyboard layout switching order should be predictable on iPhone. It makes no sense and feels even worse than random. When you have three layouts installed, layout 1 is active and you want to switch to layout 2, it somehow “guesses” to switch to 3 (why?), then back to 1 (why!?) and only afterwards, to 2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Fix space bar not opening folders during drag-and-drop, as mentioned earlier.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix free space not updating for hours in the Status Bar.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix displaying “0 items” in the Status Bar when there are actually items.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix “Loading” sometimes displaying in folders right over the items which have long loaded.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix preview pane forgetting to show or update file measurements.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix the Enter key not working in the “Rename files” dialog.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix Search not finding files that are in iCloud, while displaying them without any problem.<\/li>\n  <li>When I rename a file, don’t rename it back to its previous name for a second and then rename to what I wanted, while animating the file around the screen like crazy. Just immediately rename to what I wanted and don’t animate anything for God’s sake.<\/li>\n  <li>When I drag a file from Safari or Mail onto the Desktop, show it there immediately, not after a three-second delay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Safari:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>When I type an address, then press Enter, then change my mind and press Escape, don’t erase the whole address, just stop loading! I just want to fix a typo and press Enter again. How could any sane person come up with the idea to erase the address on Escape?<\/li>\n  <li>Just always remember what I typed into the address bar. Even if the website is not responding, or I try to move the tab to another window, or whatever happens. Don’t be confused, it’s just a string, you can remember it.<\/li>\n  <li>When I type an address, and Safari suggests something, and I press backspace because I don’t like the suggestion, don’t put the suggestion back because you know better; I’m the one who knows better, and I just pressed backspace, so respect it.<\/li>\n  <li>When I accidentally press Sign in with Apple somewhere, Safari hangs for a couple of seconds before displaying the dialog; display the dialog immediately and let me close it with Escape immediately.<\/li>\n  <li>When I change the zoom level, don’t snap back to default zoom level in one second.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photos app:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Fix the absent or inadequate feedback in the Sync now \/ Resume \/ Stop syncing \/ Settings (Not enough local storage) control (works badly on all platforms).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preview app:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>When I open a document while there are already some other documents open, don’t first close all other documents, then reopen them in random order in random desktops; just open the one I asked for, and in the desktop I was in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Settings app:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Fix Settings app resetting to General after some time of inactivity. Why, why?<\/li>\n  <li>Fix search never finding obvious things or remove it altogether, if school-level engineering to implement text search is no longer present at Apple.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix Desktop wallpaper selection UI not providing any feedback.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Music app (this is so broken that nothing would help, but still):<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Fix search and navigation that are completely insane right now.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix ⌘N\/⌘P in Get Info dialog not working when “Genre” field is in focus.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix the “Genre” field itself being wrong size and buggy as hell.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix text fields ignoring Capitalize \/ Make Lower Case commands and just leaving text unchanged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notes app:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Fix clipboard not working after some time. This is a data-loss bug that stays unfixed for many years already.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix sloppy style copying. Sometimes if you copy and paste text (when clipboard is still working in Notes), it would sometimes copy the style of only a part of that text, but match style for one or several final lines.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix caret speed degradation. The older the note, the slower the caret is moving inside it. After a couple of months of many edits a day, a note becomes so slow to work with, that you have to create a new one, copy the text to it and delete the old one. And then spend time re-linking all linked notes to the new one.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix text selection forgetting its direction mid-way. Sometimes you start selecting from right to left (i.e. by holding Shift + left arrow) and while you are still trying to extend selection to the left, Notes app accidentally decides to start shrinking your selection from the right.<\/li>\n  <li>When reopening the app, sometimes it decides to collapse all folders in the list of the left. Don’t do that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All Mac apps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>When I press ⌘P accidentally, the system hangs for several seconds before displaying the Print dialog (which I don’t need, of course, because I don’t have a printer and I have no idea why anyone would have it). Since I hadn’t intended to press ⌘P, I have no idea why the system hung, so for me the system just hangs for no reason, and after several seconds I learn: oh, it’s because I pressed the wrong button. All this is to say, there is no reason on Earth to take time to display the Print dialog, just display it immediately!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quick Look<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Fix window resize hit area not matching with cursor reaction area (make no mistake, this has been a problem long before Tahoe).<\/li>\n  <li>Fix window dragging. Quick Look used to have a nice property where you could drag its window from anywhere, but now you need to aim at the window title.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spaces:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Stop randomly switching spaces when I switch between apps whose windows are available in multiple spaces.<\/li>\n  <li>When I switch from space to space when the active app is set to display in all spaces, don’t leave the app in the outgoing space and then suddenly bring it to front in the incoming spaces (sometimes); just leave the app stable where it was for the whole process and never change the active app.<\/li>\n  <li>When I click a link and it opens in Safari, don’t switch me to another Space with another Safari window for no reason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wi-Fi on Mac:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Fix Wi-Fi icon and network selection on Mac. When I disconnect from a particular network, don’t randomly decide to turn off Wi-Fi completely, just disconnect from the one network. If I change a network while trying to connect to another network, don’t then randomly connect to the first network anyway because it finally responded. If I turn off Wi-Fi while trying to connect to a network, don’t turn it back on when the network finally responded. Always respect my latest choice.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix the list of Wi-Fi networks jumping down in a second after opening and having me aimed at a particular network because it finally realized it should also display Personal Hotspot before everything.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix select-by-typing not working in the Wi-Fi networks list menu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wi-Fi on iPhone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Fix Wi-Fi management on iPhone. I had never understood what the third “neither off nor on” Wi-Fi state means and how exactly it works, but at least make the feedback consistent. Sometimes I tap the Wi-Fi icon in the Control Center several times, and it doesn’t change state, it just responds with something like “Disconnecting until tomorrow” on every tap, and there is no way to connect. Sometimes tapping does not turn Wi-Fi off or turns it off some time later than you tap, or turns it off, but then back on in a few seconds.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix Wi-Fi status display consistency. This has been a problem forever: sometimes you would see LTE in the Status Bar, but a clearly connected Wi-Fi network in the network list; other times you would see the three perfect Wi-Fi waves in the Status Bar, but some intermediate “connecting” state in the network list. This is crazy, they should both get their information from the same source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Screenshots and screen recording:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Remove the delay before the screenshot tool appears after I press the shortcut.<\/li>\n  <li>Fix the bug where a couple of seconds after I start screen recording are not actually recorded.<\/li>\n  <li>Remove the delay before the screenshot file appears on the Desktop after I make the screenshot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again, this is far from being complete, of course, it’s just something that bothers me every day and comes to mind automatically. These are not just my pet bugs. Fixing every single one of them will make the platforms only marginally better. This list demonstrates how Apple platforms increasingly feel unpredictable, unresponsive, and disrespectful to the user’s intent. The decline in user interface quality, especially on the Mac, has been profound, and Apple needs years to recover. I don’t expect Mac to quickly become as good, consistent, and fast as it was twenty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But I’d like to see some evidence that Apple at least understands the problem and takes some steps towards fixing it.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n",
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            "title": "Hoping for a brighter future at Apple",
            "content_html": "<p>The internet is celebrating the news that Alan Dye, Apple’s head of design, is leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Alan has been the face of Apple’s interface decline in recent years. There was a time when the core principles of good interface design were easiest to explain using Apple as the example. Now Apple mostly serves to show how <i>not<\/i> to do it. Dye ended up with enormous power despite minimal competence: he simply doesn’t understand what makes an interface good; he lacks the education and isn’t even aware of it. Looks and surface-level effects completely defeated depth and thoughtfulness, and things still work only thanks to the extraordinary foundation laid long ago. Dye neither understood nor respected that foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Lemay is taking over. I hadn’t heard the name before, but he has been an interface designer at Apple since 1999, so there’s no doubt he actually understands what the job of an interface designer is. And judging by the reaction, the designers inside Apple can’t believe their luck and seem genuinely hopeful. Maybe he’s someone for whom “design is how it works” isn’t just nice-sounding words. And only a couple of weeks ago there was another rumor that this year Apple will focus on polishing and refinement rather than new features.<\/p>\n<p>I very much hope Apple is headed for a revival. Maybe window sizes will once again be chosen so that elements actually fit instead of triggering a three-pixel scroll bar. Maybe we’ll get back the wonderful world where elements and their labels aren’t pushed as far apart as possible. Maybe animations will once again work to explain spatial relationships or bringing joy, instead of being accidental artifacts of implementation.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing I hope for: Apple once led the world in making drag-and-drop a truly comfortable gesture. On Windows, it was basically unusable — if you dragged a file, nothing else worked until you finished. On the Mac, while “holding” a file with the mouse, you could scroll windows with the wheel to drop the file where you needed, and you could even hit space bar to activate an element under the cursor while the mouse button was already pressed. Today these things work only sometimes, in the places where Apple hasn’t yet broken them. Maybe Apple will suddenly remember the implications of Fitts’s law, and we’ll once again be able to drag files to the very edge of the screen to drop them into the Dock, instead of having to aim at the icon.<\/p>\n<p>When Steve Jobs introduced Quick Look about twenty years ago, he explained that PDF parsing was built deep into the system, so even complex PDFs opened instantly, like ordinary image files. Today on the Mac, not only PDFs — even a regular JPEG takes noticeable time to appear. Just open a folder full of JPEGs and press the down arrow key to move through them. On the old Mac, the JPEGs would flicker past your eyes as they changed. Today, the Mac waits until you release the key, and only then lazily draws the JPEG you stopped on.<\/p>\n<p>You simply have to not know how good things can be — how good they <i>were<\/i> — to believe that today’s Mac is good. The only reason to tolerate this misery is that everything else is even worse. If only that stopped being the only reason. Please.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "The internet is celebrating the news that Alan Dye, Apple’s head of design, is leaving",
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            "title": "When you type to search in Finder, files and folders are mixed together",
            "content_html": "<p>In Norton Commander, as well as in Windows Explorer it’s always been the norm that folders go first, then files. On Mac, it used to be different: files and folders were always mixed together based on the selected sort order.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, Apple finally gave in and added a proper sorting option to Finder: folders now appear first, files below.<\/p>\n<p>In Norton Commander, as well as in Windows Explorer, and even in Finder, you’ve always been able to select a file in a list just by typing its name. I’m always surprised when people scroll through giant file lists looking with their eyes, instead of just typing a couple of letters.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine you open a folder in Finder, and in it you have:<br \/>\n<tt>images\/<\/tt><br \/>\n<tt>index.php<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>You press the “i” key. Obviously, the highlight should jump to the <tt>images\/<\/tt> folder. But in reality, it jumps to <tt>index.php<\/tt>. Because even though Finder visually sorts folders to the top, deep down it still believes that <tt>index.php<\/tt> comes before <tt>images<\/tt>.<\/p>\n<p>Vibe coding had not been invented then, but the implementation quality of Apple software was already at that same level.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "In Norton Commander, as well as in Windows Explorer it’s always been the norm that folders go first, then files",
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            "title": "Noise cancellation on a Mac mutes keyboard clicks",
            "content_html": "<p>The Mac’s built-in noise cancellation suppresses keyboard clicks. It makes perfect sense, but there’s an annoying side effect. When you’re taking notes during a client call, it looks like you’re just reacting slowly or constantly zoning out. It’s hard to convince anyone you’re actually typing because they can’t hear a thing!<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "The Mac’s built-in noise cancellation suppresses keyboard clicks. It makes perfect sense, but there’s an annoying side effect",
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            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/typing-password-over-button\/",
            "title": "Typing your password over a button",
            "content_html": "<p>Apple came up with this interface behavior that would seem strange before.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/ventura-password-1@2x.png\" width=\"185\" height=\"206\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>When biometric authentication is available, the password input field is hidden. But if something goes wrong, you can still enter your password. However, you can start typing the password even before pressing the “Use Password...” button — any input will take the window to the next state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/ventura-password-2@2x.png\" width=\"185\" height=\"215\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Apparently, the password interface is hidden initially for the sake of beauty, and also not to give people the false impression that the password <i>must<\/i> be entered.<\/p>\n<p>The only annoying thing is that the two states of the window are of different heights, that is, when you start typing the password, the window gets bigger.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Apple came up with this interface behavior that would seem strange before",
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            "id": "345",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/timezones-and-calendar\/",
            "title": "Using timezones in Calendar in remote teams",
            "content_html": "<p>Those who have remote colleagues and clients sometimes struggle with timezones and don’t know how to use Calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Here’s what you do. Turn on timezone support if it is off for some reason:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/timezones-1@2x.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>When you add a meeting, specify its timezone (unless it’s the one you are in):<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/timezones-2@2x.jpg\" width=\"502\" height=\"368\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the toolbar, select which timezone to display your calendar in and create events by default:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/timezones-3@2x.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"190\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>To be honest, I have no idea how come this “timezone support” is an option and what happens when it’s off.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Those who have remote colleagues and clients sometimes struggle with timezones and don’t know how to use Calendar",
            "date_published": "2022-11-08T21:35:20+05:00",
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            "id": "343",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/resizing-mac-windows\/",
            "title": "Resizing Mac Windows",
            "content_html": "<p>If you start dragging a window’s border, the window will start to resize horizontally or vertically in that direction. And with the Option key pressed, it will resize symmetrically in the opposite direction as well (like in Photoshop, yes).<\/p>\n<p>If you start dragging a window’s corner, the window will start to resize both horizontally and vertically in that direction. And with the Option key pressed, it will resize symmetrically in all directions.<\/p>\n<p>If you double click a window’s border, the window will grow from that side to the edge of the screen. If you double click a window’s corner, the window will grow to the corresponding corner of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, to make a window cover the whole screen (but not go into the dumb full-screen mode), just alt-doubleclick any of the window’s corners.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/move-windows-by-dragging-borders\/\">Moving OS X Lion windows by dragging the borders<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n",
            "summary": "If you start dragging a window’s border, the window will start to resize horizontally or vertically in that direction",
            "date_published": "2022-10-27T19:18:21+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2022-10-27T19:18:30+05:00",
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                "interface",
                "Mac"
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            "id": "324",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/mac-anchored-selection-undo\/",
            "title": "Selection anchoring and undo on a Mac",
            "content_html": "<p>A text selection not only has a beginning and an end, but also <i>an anchor<\/i>. It is whether I started selecting from the beginning or from the end. It’s not displayed anywhere, but the operating system sets it and accounts for it.<\/p>\n<p>If you select a text from left to right, the selection will be anchored on the left. When you use Shift+arrows, the end of the selection will be adjusted, while the beginning will stay intact. Conversely, if you select a text from right to left, the selection will be anchored on the right and Shift+arrows will adjust the beginning of the selection. This works even if the initial selection is made with a mouse, try it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>In older Mac OS versions this was not implemented well in lists. In Finder, for example, when you clicked a file and then Shift-clicked another one that was above in the list, Shift+arrows would still adjust the bottom end of the selected range, not the top one. That was irritating. At some point Apple fixed it and Finder selections began to work correctly. In text selection, it worked right all the time that I remember.<\/p>\n<p>But even in text, there is still a bug in Mac OS: when Undo restores a selection, it will reset its anchor to left.<br \/>\nAt least in Mojave. Select some text from right to left, then try adjusting it with Shift-arrows—everything will work fine, the beginning of the selection will be changed. Then delete the text and put it back with ⌘Z. Now, Shift-arrows will adjust the end of the selection. Why, Apple?<\/p>\n<p>It’s commonplace to praise Apple for their attention to detail. But there is actually a lot of such user interface sloppiness on their part, and always have been. In never occurred to me that there was such thing as a selection anchor when I used Windows, because in Windows, it always worked flawlessly.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "A text selection not only has a beginning and an end, but also an anchor. It is whether I started selecting from the beginning or from the end",
            "date_published": "2020-03-02T19:20:45+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2020-03-02T19:20:32+05:00",
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                "interface",
                "Mac"
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            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 02 Mar 2020 19:20:45 +0500",
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            "id": "304",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/notes-stop-syncing\/",
            "title": "If Apple Notes stop syncing",
            "content_html": "<p>Has it ever happened to you that Apple’s Notes just stopped syncing reliably via iCloud?<\/p>\n<p>For me it happens like this: the Mac stops uploading local changes to some notes to iCloud, so I don’t see them on my phone. I know that the problem is really in uploading from the Mac because the web version of iCloud continues to sync normally with my iPhone. Also, the new notes that I create on the phone, appear on my Mac.<\/p>\n<p>You may have found several fix suggestions online, most futile. Signing off iCloud and then signing back on helps, but this way you lose all the local changes that haven’t been uploaded to iCloud.<\/p>\n<p>What I’ve found to be a working and safe solution is to select the “All iCloud” folder in Notes, then sort notes by date changed, then move all the notes that hadn’t been uploaded to iCloud to the “On My Mac” account (you must enable it in Preferences) and then move them back to the iCloud account.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Has it ever happened to you that Apple’s Notes just stopped syncing reliably via iCloud?",
            "date_published": "2017-12-28T02:45:20+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2018-03-21T11:48:33+05:00",
            "tags": [
                "Mac",
                "solution"
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            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Thu, 28 Dec 2017 02:45:20 +0500",
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        {
            "id": "297",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/macbook-pro-preserve-face\/",
            "title": "How Apple can preserve face while recovering from the MacBook Pro mistakes",
            "content_html": "<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2017\/11\/14\/best-laptop-ever\">The best laptop ever made<\/a>, Marco Arment outlines just how great the previous-generation MacBook Pros were. He does not say this directly, but obviously alludes to the multiple problems with the current MacBook Pros.<\/p>\n<p>Really, almost all changes in the new MacBook Pros made them worse: unreliable keyboard, no useful ports, no MagSafe, worse battery life under load. All this with no meaningful improvements to performance. And nobody seems to care about the Touch Bar.<\/p>\n<p>I don’t know whether Apple internally even think they’ve made a mistake with the 2016 design, but let’s pretend they do. If they just go back to the 2012 design next year, they will thus admit they’ve screwed up with the design. And that’s not what Apple usually does. But the 2012 design with the newer guts is what the market wants — at least until Apple comes up with a design that is actually better, and that takes time.<\/p>\n<p>So how can they both satisfy the market and preserve face?<\/p>\n<p>They still sell new 2012-design MacBook Pros. I think they will continue to do so, and will update those machines. Maybe they will rebrand them as “Classic” to contrast with the “Touch Bar” models, at least when they talk about them.<\/p>\n<p>So, in year 2018 we may see updates to both lines. The Classic MacBook Pros could get faster processors, better displays and a couple of USB-C ports. The Touch Bar MacBook Pros could get a reliable keyboard, and to make them look super-cool, maybe, Face ID, if that’s not too early.<\/p>\n<p>And by the year 2020 or so Apple will hopefully do another redesign, and we’ll see if it’s good enough to finally abandon the Classic line.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "In The best laptop ever made, Marco Arment outlines just how great the previous-generation MacBook Pros were",
            "date_published": "2017-11-25T17:54:06+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2017-11-25T17:58:30+05:00",
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                "Mac"
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            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sat, 25 Nov 2017 17:54:06 +0500",
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            "id": "260",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/make-lower-case\/",
            "title": "Make text lower case",
            "content_html": "<p>Sometimes you paste a text from somewhere, and it’s all upper case, and you want to make it normal case. Few people know that changing text case is a built-in feature of every text field on a Mac, like cut, copy and paste.<\/p>\n<p>Edit → Transformations → Make Lower Case:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/make-lower-case@2x.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"396\" alt=\"Make text lower case\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/convert-to-plain-text\/\">Quickly convert any text to plain text<\/a>.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Sometimes you paste a text from somewhere, and it’s all upper case, and you want to make it normal case",
            "date_published": "2017-03-18T06:24:50+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2017-03-18T06:24:33+05:00",
            "tags": [
                "lifehack",
                "Mac"
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            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sat, 18 Mar 2017 06:24:50 +0500",
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            "id": "255",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/how-to-un-hang-a-hung-app-on-a-mac\/",
            "title": "How to un-hang a hung app on a Mac",
            "content_html": "<p>In some cases an app on your Mac would hang: the mouse cursor would turn into a spinning beach ball, and the app would ignore all clicks and key presses. If this doesn’t cure itself in a couple of seconds, there’s not much you can do other than to force quit the app and re-launch it.<\/p>\n<p>Except that sometimes you can. Open Activity Monitor and select the hung app in the list. It’s shown in red as “not responding”. Then click the gear icon and select “Sample Process”:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/un-hang@2x.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"180\" alt=\"How to un-hang a hung app on a Mac\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you are lucky, the app would just magically un-hang!<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what this feature is for, and it doesn’t always work. But if the app’s data is very valuable to you, you don’t just want to give up and force quit it. So you can try this. I’ve saved a couple of Photoshop files this way.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "In some cases an app on your Mac would hang: the mouse cursor would turn into a spinning beach ball, and the app would ignore all clicks and key presses...",
            "date_published": "2017-03-09T22:45:48+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2017-03-09T22:45:27+05:00",
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                "lifehack",
                "Mac",
                "software"
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            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Thu, 09 Mar 2017 22:45:48 +0500",
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            "id": "243",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/reminders-buggy\/",
            "title": "Reminders app is so buggy",
            "content_html": "<p>Reminders is one of buggiest apps Apple has ever made. Sometimes it forgets to remind, sometimes it reminds twice. It cannot sync anything between Macs, iOS devices and the watch. And now, it decided to remind me of five things:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/reminders@2x.jpg\" width=\"414\" height=\"736\" alt=\"Reminders app\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thanks, I guess.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Reminders is one of buggiest apps Apple has ever made. Sometimes it forgets to remind, sometimes it reminds twice",
            "date_published": "2016-12-27T22:55:22+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2016-12-27T22:55:15+05:00",
            "tags": [
                "bugs",
                "iPhone",
                "Mac",
                "software"
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            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Tue, 27 Dec 2016 22:55:22 +0500",
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            "id": "231",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/finder-folders-first\/",
            "title": "Folders first in Finder",
            "content_html": "<p>Wow! Finder in Sierra has <i>finally<\/i> learnt to put folders on top:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/folders-first-sierra.png\" width=\"467\" height=\"416\" alt=\"Folders first in Finder\" \/>\n<\/div>\n",
            "summary": "Wow! Finder in Sierra has finally learnt to put folders on top",
            "date_published": "2016-09-04T15:18:36+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2016-09-04T15:18:30+05:00",
            "tags": [
                "Mac"
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            "image": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/folders-first-sierra.png",
            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sun, 04 Sep 2016 15:18:36 +0500",
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            "id": "164",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/spacing-separates-lines-join\/",
            "title": "Spacing separates, lines join",
            "content_html": "<p>People often draw lines to separate things. They should, instead, move the things apart.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Mac menu bar:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/mac-menu-normal.png\" width=\"564\" height=\"38\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you “separate” the items with lines, the effect will be the opposite:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/mac-menu-divided.png\" width=\"564\" height=\"38\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n",
            "summary": "People often draw lines to separate things. They should, instead, move the things apart",
            "date_published": "2014-06-13T14:11:42+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2014-06-13T13:09:17+05:00",
            "tags": [
                "design",
                "interface",
                "Mac"
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            "image": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/mac-menu-normal.png",
            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:11:42 +0500",
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        {
            "id": "161",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/compose-new-message\/",
            "title": "The stupid “Compose New Message” Mail.app menu item",
            "content_html": "<p>Let’s say you’ve right-clicked the Mail.app’s dock icon and want to write a new mail:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/compose-new-message.png\" width=\"239\" height=\"245\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Why, why is the menu item called “Compose New Message”? Why does it say “Compose”? No sane person would ever say: “Honey, I need to <i>compose<\/i> a message”.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>every other app on Earth<\/i> there is no verb before “New”. Just “New Window” in Safari. Just “New Event” in Calendar. Heck, in iMessage it is just “New Message”. Who does Apple make me spend several seconds trying to find the line I need in Mail.app? This is one of those things you cannot get used to.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Let’s say you’ve right-clicked the Mail.app’s dock icon and want to write a new mail",
            "date_published": "2014-05-27T01:25:48+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2014-05-27T01:26:38+05:00",
            "tags": [
                "interface",
                "Mac",
                "rants",
                "text"
            ],
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            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Tue, 27 May 2014 01:25:48 +0500",
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        {
            "id": "141",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/steve-jobs-demos-the-mac-in-1984\/",
            "title": "Steve Jobs demos the Mac in 1984",
            "content_html": "<p>Watch this video. I am almost as excited about the stuff they show as the audience:<\/p>\n<p><video id=\"CTPmediaElement0\" class=\"CTPmediaElement\" controls=\"\" preload=\"auto\" src=\"http:\/\/timeInc.brightcove.com.edgesuite.net\/rtmp_uds\/293884104\/201401\/3530\/293884104_3106072393001_BCS-January-1984-640x480.mp4\" poster=\"http:\/\/timeInc.brightcove.com.edgesuite.net\/rtmp_uds\/293884104\/201401\/446\/293884104_3105752610001_mac1984.jpg?pubId=293884104\" style=\"width: 470px !important; height: 264px !important;\"><\/video><\/p>\n<!-- http:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2014\/01\/26\/just-unearthed-steve-jobs-first-public-demo-of-mac\/ --><p>I think the 2007 iPhone demo will look impressive even in thirty years.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Watch this video. I am almost as excited about the stuff they show as the audience",
            "date_published": "2014-01-29T21:44:35+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2014-01-29T21:44:28+05:00",
            "tags": [
                "Apple",
                "iPhone",
                "Mac",
                "video"
            ],
            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:44:35 +0500",
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        {
            "id": "80",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/fix-sudo-on-a-mac\/",
            "title": "Fix sudo on a Mac",
            "content_html": "<p>Sometimes the <i>sudo<\/i> command stops working for reasons beyond human understanding. When you try to sudo anything, it says: “no valid sudoers sources found”.<\/p>\n<p>It happened to me twice. The first time it happened to a MacBook. I tried to make some changes to the sudoers file, but it didn’t help, and I gave up. After adding an SSD drive to my Mac Pro and moving the system to it, it happened again. Mac Pro is my main working machine, so I <i>had<\/i> to fix it this time.<\/p>\n<p>Turned out the problem was with the permissions on the root directory. Presumably I’ve somehow broken them while moving my system.<\/p>\n<p>I found a working solution <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showthread.php?t=447812\">on MacRumors forum<\/a>. Here’s what you do:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n  <li>Restart your Mac is a single-user mode (press and hold ⌘+S during boot until you see command prompt).<\/li>\n  <li><tt>\/sbin\/fsck -fy<\/tt><br \/>\n  check the filesystem integrity (not sure it’s necessary, but I did it anyway).<\/li>\n  <li><tt>\/sbin\/mount -wu \/<\/tt><br \/>\n  mount the root filesystem.<\/li>\n  <li><tt>\/bin\/chmod 1775 \/<\/tt><br \/>\n  fix the permissions.<\/li>\n  <li><tt>\/bin\/sync<\/tt><br \/>\n  commit the changes to filesystem.<\/li>\n  <li><tt>exit<\/tt><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After booting to the normal Mac environment, you may also need to repair permissions with the Disk Utility.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Sometimes the sudo command stops working for reasons beyond human understanding. When you try to sudo anything, it says",
            "date_published": "2012-11-06T15:52:13+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2012-11-06T15:50:11+05:00",
            "tags": [
                "Mac",
                "solution"
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            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:52:13 +0500",
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            "id": "69",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/some-details-in-mountain-lion\/",
            "title": "Some details in Mountain Lion",
            "content_html": "<ol start=\"1\">\n  <li>Launchpad no longer displays all the Adobe’s crap “apps” (the likes of “Uninstall Adobe Flash Extension Manager Help Center Updater”). Somehow it learned to distinguish between real apps and this useless stuff.<\/li>\n  <li>Apple for some reason decided that Launchpad should have not eight, but seven icons in a row, which broke all my logical page arrangements. Oh well. Had to reorganize it. I hope in ML it will at least remember the positions well and don’t shuffle them unexpectedly. By the way, search in Launchpad is great.<\/li>\n  <li>When you delete a file in Finder, it no longer moves selection to parent directory. Huge win (via Aleksander Karpinsky).<\/li>\n  <li>Many have already pointer out that the battery icon in the main menu no longer has an option to display time remaining, only the percentage. But what’s more important, when you ask it to display percentage, it now displays it to the left of the icon (iOS style) and doesn’t enclose it in the stupid, useless and noisy parentheses. I wonder what made them use those parentheses in the first place. Anyway, I don’t want to see the percentage anyway.<\/li>\n  <li>In Calendars, when some of the day’s events are out of view (i. e. you are viewing a schedule from noon to midnight, but you have an event in 9 am), they are still shown as small “tails” on the edges, so while you don’t see what event or events are there, you least know that there is something.<\/li>\n  <li>In Mail, if you put a folder (e. g. “Projects”) in the bookmarks bar, it no longer behaves like a pull-down menu. Instead, it takes the name of the form “Projects — The TTP Project” using the name of the subfolder you last opened and opens that folder immediately. To see the whole list of subfolders, you need to click the little triangle on the right.<\/li>\n  <li><s>When you right click a mail and select “Move To”, Mail no longer displays the whole mailbox hierarchy for you to pick a folder. Instead, it shows just the top-level folders, any of which you can hover to reveal a submenu of its subfolders and so on. This made the “Move To” command almost impossible to use, because the menu structure is just too fragile to use confidently.<\/s> This turned out not to be true. In reality Mail displays each folder as a menu of its own if it is collapsed in the mailbox sidebar and as a list of subfolders if it is not. And it does the same in Lion. The reason for my experience is that in Lion I had all my hierarchy expanded and in ML it was not.<\/li>\n  <li>You can now drag a file from somewhere to an app icon in Launchpad to open with. Start dragging, then press your Launchpad hotkey (it’s &#8984;Esc for me) and drop a file on an any icon that would accept it. Cool.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "What else?",
            "date_published": "2012-07-28T01:05:06+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2012-07-29T19:02:58+05:00",
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            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/button-text-in-mountain-lion\/",
            "title": "Button text in Mountain Lion",
            "content_html": "<p>John Siracusa in <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2012\/07\/os-x-10-8\/\">the review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Creating a new document and then immediately closing without saving now shows a dialog box whose far-left button is labeled “Delete” rather than the milder “Don’t Save”. The same button in the dialog that appears after selecting the “Duplicate…” command and then immediately closing the duplicate window is now labeled “Delete Copy” instead of “Don’t Save”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice touch.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "John Siracusa in the review",
            "date_published": "2012-07-26T01:09:30+05:00",
            "date_modified": "2023-10-19T01:03:02+05:00",
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