Glenn Fleishman

Can’t open HTML pages in Safari? Add Safari to Full Disk Access

Viewing downloaded HTML pages or previewing pages from a text editor or Web site design app in a browser can be a routine activity for many of us. But what do you do when you get this unexpected error? Safari can’t open the page. The error is “The…

A Growth Industry: Typewriter Stores

In the small city of Bremerton, Washington (pop. 44,000), a ferry ride away from Seattle, the shock is not that a typewriter repair and retail store has kept its doors open. Rather, it’s that there are two in the same city—and that another just…

Authory Provides Writers a Permanent Record of Their Articles

If you have published articles on the Internet for any length of time, either personally or professionally, you know how hard it is to maintain a coherent list of everything you’ve written. Worse, publications routinely change content management…

The Incomparable Mothership 658: Nowhere In Time

Avoid stepping on butterflies, step into your time machine, and go kill your grandfather—it’s time for our Time Travel Movies Draft! We select favorite films from all corners of the time-travel genre, from time loops to historical shenanigans to…

What kinds of passwords, tokens, and keys can Apple manage for you?

With the addition in January 2023 of support across its current operating systems for hardware security keys to protect your Apple ID, Apple has extended to four the number of kinds of secrets it can generate, support, or manage for you. This can be…

How to set the power scheduler that disappeared in macOS Ventura

Across years of releases of Mac OS X and macOS, Apple offered a power-scheduling feature in the Energy Saver, Battery, or similar places across System Preferences. You could set a time of day for your Mac to start up (or wake, if sleeping) or shut…

How to make sure Time Machine backs up external drives

Mike Keslosky uses Time Machine, and wants to shift his Photos and iTunes libraries from his startup volume to an externally connected hard drive. But he’s concerned that after he moves those libraries and deletes them from his internal drive that…

Three ways to add an iCloud.com address, even if you already have one

Table of Contents Add an icloud.com address to an Apple IDAdd icloud.com aliasesCreate a new Apple ID to get an icloud.com address Apple gives icloud.com email addresses away at no cost, but it’s not always obvious how to obtain one by itself or add…

The Incomparable Mothership 170: Giant-Sized Superhero Sweep #9

We kick off this giant size sweep episode with some quick thoughts on Shazam: Fury of the Gods. Dan then fills us in on the homework he’s been doing watching the final season of The Flash. We then move on to the Marc Guggenheim (or Arrowverse fame)…

Poster by Stephanie Carpenter from the Tiny Type Museum

One extraordinary item I have a handful of is a commission. I asked Stephanie Carpenter, an artist, educator, designer, and printer in Wisconsin—and the Assistant Director of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum—to design and print a small poster…

How to use an SD camera card with your Mac

Macs and digital cameras have gone hand in hand for a couple of decades. But Apple hasn’t always provided a direct way to transfer images from a camera if you don’t have the correct USB cable handy. Let’s not get started on Wi-Fi transfer–a nightmare…

Selling Out Print Books

Over the last decade, I’ve brought four books to press: one offset, one digital, one letterpress by my own hand, and one letterpress by contract. Three of those are now sold out!

How to update your passwords with Apple’s Security Recommendations

Despite the rise of two-factor authentication, password security remains a top priority. Unless your password is unique, relatively long, and hasn’t been found in a database breach as plain text, you should probably change it. For some sites, you…

How to use one keyboard with two Macs

If you’re in the unique situation of needing to use two Macs at once, the task can be made easier if you can control both of them with one keyboard. Here are a couple of ways to do it. It is also possible to use the same mouse as we explain here: How…

How to use snooze and end timers on an iPhone or iPad

Apple has reduced the number of buttons on most iPhones and iPads over time, having them perform double, triple, or more duties. But managing alarms seems to be in a different category. On an iPhone or iPad with a Home button, you can snooze an alarm…

How to stop the Apple Mail link preview in macOS Ventura

Starting in macOS Ventura, Apple’s Mail app always embeds a preview of any link you paste into a message from the Clipboard. This may not be desirable, but Apple offers no option to disable the preview by default. However, you can bypass the preview…

Apple’s Weak Passcode Protection for Apple ID

I’ve often written the following sentiment: “The Apple ID is the pivot point around which Apple’s services and systems rotate.” Apple created a single, unified ID—with an unfortunate amount of legacy baggage from previous systems—to identify you…

The reason for warnings about a new IP address from your bank and others

Most home networks are built in two intersecting pieces, neither of which you ever have to worry about: On the internet service provider (ISP) side, that company provides a public-facing internet protocol (IP) address that anyone in the world can…

The Incomparable Mothership 655: Princesses Don't Have to Wear Pink

This week we’re drafting Disney Princesses! There are two simple rules: They must be Disney, and they must be princesses. How far will our intrepid panelists go to stretch those rules? Join us to find out.Disney Princess Draft Annette Wierstra and…

How to access a credit card CVV from Safari via autofill

If you’re like me, you switched to using chipped payment cards and Apple Pay whenever possible for all your in-person, phone order, and online purchases. Apple Pay requires that you enroll credit and debit cards, and the backend infrastructure…