Tag: iOS
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Smartphones and the Jeux Absurdes
Reading Time: 3 minutesYears ago I noticed something. All of the games on iOS and Android that are promoted are crap. By this I mean that they have a very simple design. Complete a challenge, fail, watch an add, compete, win, watch an ad. Every single game makes you see an ad every few seconds.…
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Keeping kDrive Tidy Despite iOS
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the many iOS flaws is that if you download photos and videos it defaults to throwing them into your photo album, whether they’re yours, and that’s why it’s good to tidy up. For the tidying up effort today I used ffprobe, find and the kDrive desktop drive, as well as…
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On PhotoSync and Photo Uploader for Photoprism
Reading Time: 2 minutesPhotosync is a photo uploading app that allows you to upload to various devices and cloud solutions with ease. Photo Uploader for Photoprism is a specialist app for Photoprism. The reason for which I bring up both of these apps is that they allow you to sync to photoprism. When I was…
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How I Switched from iCloud Photos to Ksuite+ and Immich
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I turned off iCloud Photo synching, and then I wiped my photos from iCloud Photos but before that I took several precautions. Triple Backup to Apple Devices with Enough Storage The first precaution I took was to ensure that the Photos app on a mac was downloading all the original photos…
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Sliding from iOS to Android Despite Whatsapp and Signal
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I switched from an Iphone SE from 2020 for a Fairphone 4 and the migration has been easy, except for two apps. Whatsapp and Signal. With Android it’s easy. You backup to Google Drive and you can slide between Android devices with ease. With iOS the backup is in iCloud so…
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Toying With the Idea of Fairphone
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is an inalienable truth, that within two or three years all of my mobile phones require a battery swap. With an iPhone this costs 67.50 CHF for the SE but only 28 CHF for a fairphone. In light of this it makes sense to recycle the iPhone SE and replace it…
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Immich and iPhone Storage
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen experimenting with the Immich iPhone app I found it impossible to upload beyond 15,000 images and I supposed that it was because the phone timed out before it had checked all the previous files before moving on to the last four thousand images. In reality the problem is that Immich downloads…
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The iOS Astronomy Wallpaper and Seasons
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re wondering why one of the tags in my post is “Day 388” it’s because I shifted from WordPress to ClassicPress once again. In so doing I lost access to Akismet and Jetpack. By losing Akismet I lose comment spam filtering. I also lost access to the Jetpack app so I…
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The Solitaire Puzzle
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I rediscovered my love of the game solitaire. It is the game we played on windows 3.1 and other windows operating systems, up to iOS and more. Solitaire is a simple game to play on a mobile phone, ipad or computer, whether laptop or desktop. I have found that a game…
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The Pay To Play and Pay To Win iOS Games
Reading Time: 2 minutesI like casual gaming. I like to play games on the iPhone when commuting or waiting for something to happen. The problem is that casual gaming is about seeing adverts at the end of every puzzle or challenge. For every game of solitaire, every game of Woodoku and more games, you see…