• Mar 9, 2024

    macOS Sonoma: There's a process stealing your windows' focus

    Sean Harding finally put into words an issue that I’ve witnessed for a while now on macOS Sonoma.

    This is it:

    Weird MacOS thing: the window I am working in will sometimes lose focus (without the app losing focus). Suddenly, and without any obvious cause. It will be as if no window has focus. Sometimes happens as often as every few minutes, sometimes doesn’t happen for a long time. I can’t figure out any common variable. But it can be very disruptive. Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas?

    I’ve adjusted the Python script mentioned in the thread to work with Python 3.x that you can get with Homebrew for example.

  • Dec 18, 2022

    Links – For Reasons

    It’s been quite some time, but I thought it’d be nice to add some info here with other places where you can find me. Especially since you’re now – on some sites – no longer allowed to link to your other accounts. It’s really only a handful:

  • Jan 18, 2021

    Spatial Audio with Plex on iPhone and iPad

    Daan Wijffels summarizing the necessary steps to enable Spatial Audio on Plex:

    Meet custom profiles in Plex! These profiles allow us to change which codecs are sent to a certain type of device. So al (sic!) we have to do is create a profile XML file with the right information and voilà… Spatial Audio!

    If you’re running your own Plex server you can rather easily enable Apple’s Spatial Audio. On the client, iPhone or iPad, you’ll have to enable the old Plex video player (Settings > Advanced > Use Old Video Player). For those interested in additional details, these steps and requirements were previously listed on Plex’s official forum.

    Apple introduced Spatial Audio with iOS 14. The surround sound can be activated on AirPods Pro (starting with firmware 3A283) and AirPods Max in iPhone and iPad. Apple lists the necessary iOS/iPadOS hardware in a support document.

  • Aug 30, 2020

    iPadOS and the Magic Keyboard: Multitasking is still very limited

    I’m just starting to write using Apple’s Magic Keyboard for iPad. I like the feel and writing seems to be a joy so far. But I’m still running into issues with iPadOS 14, that have already been there in iPadOS 13 and earlier. First and foremost, at least for me, is the bad experience when trying to use multitasking – even now, having a mouse cursor that could potentially be useed to support you.

  • Apr 25, 2020

    Apple Watch after five years: How long I've been wearing it every day

    Five years ago – on April 24, 2015 – Apple released its first smartwatch: Apple Watch. After presenting it in September 2014, during the reveal of iPhone 6, Apple started taking pre-orders on April 10, 2015; two weeks ahead of shipping them. Due to international travel, jetlag and, well, sleep on that very day I wasn’t able to get an early model back then and had to wait a couple of weeks until I finally got my hands on mine.