I was listening to the MacGeekGab today, and one of the co-hosts, Adam Christianson, mentioned the situation where, for whatever reason, some software switches in the OS or app settings flip, as in what was on goes off, or vice versa, or a different option is selected, without the owner or admin knowing. By accident,… Continue reading Don’t get caught – check if your Mac firewall settings are on.
UTC Clock (Apple Widget) and QRZ in CarPlay There’s been quite an improvement in the widgets functionality in CarPlay with iOS 27. In short, you can have two columns of five widgets each to flick through. You can see my post on that here, together with a video and some screenshots. But for the amateur… Continue reading Get a UTC clock and band conditions on your #CarPlay screen with iOS27 #amateurradio
I was mucking around with CarPlay today and stumbled across something very cool - an expanded range of widgets that can show up on your vehicle's entertainment unit screen. In the first iteration of widgets a few OS back, there were only a handful of widgets available. Now, I would estimate 80 to 90 per… Continue reading It’s worth your while taking a fresh look at widgets for CarPlay on iOS 27 – it’s got cool.
I was listening to Mac Geek Gab #1160 and the host, Dave, was speaking about issues his outlaws (in-laws) were having with their home networking. They were paying for 1 Gbps down, but Speedtest.net was showing their speed as being 200 to 400 Mbps over wifi. Dave quite rightly pointed out that if they connected… Continue reading Quick networking tip – Check out the functionality of the app for your router – it may have a built-in wired speed test.