My Apple Watch keeps telling me to stand and it’s messing with my serenity.

[insert harp music here]

#healthnews #apple ⌚️

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Won’t Air on Broadcast TV But Will Stream on AppleTV+ for Free

Good grief — the Charlie Brown holiday specials have found a new home!

Instead of airing on broadcast television, the Peanuts animated classics will be streaming on AppleTV+ as part of an expanded partnership with WildBrain, Peanuts Worldwide and Lee Mendelson Film Productions, according to a press release.

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas will be offered on the streaming platform for free for certain dates this fall and winter.

This breaks my heart … 🚫 🎃 📺

#peanuts #corporatedollars #apple

Good lord, Apple. Why you talk me into doing upgrades this morning?

#photos #apple #allislost

Finally got a new machine since the 2012 MacBook Air I’ve been using was getting tired of waking up in the morning. 😴

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
Processor: 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB

I went with the Pro because it was the only model with a terabyte hard drive.

Hopefully this one will do me for another six years.

#photos #apple

“Junk” is above the “Trash” in the folder list but “Erase Junk Mail” is below “Erase Deleted Items” in the right-click menu.

This is the kinda thing that drives my OCD nuts. It’s been this way forever, too.

#email #apple #fail

Zero-day iOS HomeKit vulnerability allowed remote access to smart accessories including locks, fix rolling out

A HomeKit vulnerability in the current version of iOS 11.2 has been demonstrated to 9to5Mac that allows unauthorized control of accessories including smart locks and garage door openers. Our understanding is Apple has rolled out a server-side fix that now prevent unauthorized access from occurring while limiting some functionality, and an update to iOS 11.2 coming next week will restore that full functionality.

This is why I’ll never give Alexa or other devices access to deadbolts or doors. It’s one thing for an attacker to turn off the lights in my house. It’s completely different if they can open the doors and come inside my house.

#technews #apple #alexa

My MacBook Air was powered on in the basement, doing it’s own thing while I was upstairs doing my own thing for pretty much all of last night.

And then this morning when I get to work and actually want to use my MacBook, mdworker and his cohorted clones want to take over the world.

Maybe they’re mining bitcoin. 🙄

#fail #apple #skynet

🔪🍎 #photos #apples

Terminator: Do Robots Think in Apple II Source Code?

Remember the original Terminator movie? Well, we came aross a bit of geeky Terminator trivia this weekend. Whenever you see through the eyes of The Terminator himself, a bunch of computery text is scrolling by. It turns out this text is the source code for an Apple II checksum program, among other programs. The code was first published in Nibble magazine in the early 80’s, so was close at hand when the movie’s producers needed something high-tech for their futuristic robot/killing machine/bodybuilder.

The code featured in the movie runs on a 70’s-era MOS 6502 microprocessor. Does this mean The Terminator himself had enough processing power to run The Oregon Trail? (“The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. Two oxen die fording a river.”)

#terminator #apple

Little Snitch popped up this dialog box a few moments ago.

I’m sure whatever app iTunes spawned just then was perfectly fine but then again, may be not: Apple acknowledges reports of personal music files being deleted.

I’m perfectly happy with Amazon’s music service, btw.

#itunes #apple