Accidentally discovered this terrific text selection shortcut just now.
(tap release tap drag)

When did they add this?

@marcoarment @siracusa @caseyliss @atpfm
Quick ‘good enough’ scanning of 5”x7” photos.

Ingredients,
•iPhone at 2x.
•Dining Table.
•Side Table.
•Artificial light source - don’t use daylight due to variability over time.
•Guides to enable subsequent batch cropping in Lightroom or similar.
•B&W 50:50 pattern to set perfect focus and exposure.

Method,
See video :D

Notes,
I’m aware that my quick and dirty setup is casting a shadow of the top guide onto the top edge of the photo.

Anyone ever noticed how aggressively spiky Apple’s System Settings icon is?

I always thought it was supposed to be cogs or gears, but it looks more like a couple of pinwheels 🤔

You 🫵 can help slow down the scammers by reporting fake shortlinks 😆

Example. I received a bit.ly short link today that would have been sent to millions.

If bitly act on my report quickly 🤞- the fake Australia Post page will be unreachable by others who’ve received it.

bitly.com/pages…

What you shouldn’t do, is assume that other victims are as savvy as you are and do nothing.

@thomasareed

MBAM Feature Request.

I’ve recently seen a sneaky attack that bypasses detection pretty easily.

They’re combining website notification permission with fake ‘prove your not a robot’ or similar to onboard the victim.

The victim then gets legitimate looking messages from Notification Centre with a system prefs icon and wording like ‘Mac OS: The system is in danger! Threat detected. Click to delete’

They subsequently end up on a webpage that warns of viruses and runs a fake scan, which confirms their system is at great risk.
Interestingly the next step is a button that leads directly to the legitimate macafee site 🧐

Etrecheck shows past notifications which has helped me understand what the user has actually experienced, but I’d like to see MBAM actively detect and remove or at least flag and guide the user to removal.

MBAM is always the first thing I run, but without etrecheck showing me the past notifications, I’d never have figured it out.

@tomgerhardt
@danprovost
Here’s something @imyke may find helpful regarding manual exposure for photography and video.

It’s clicks.

1 stop, as you may have learned, is a doubling or halving of exposure.

But, on a modern camera everything is also counting clicks.

1 stop is 3 clicks
Adjusting from 200 ISO to 100 ISO is 3 clicks
Changing shutter speed from 1 second to 2 seconds or from 1/400 to 1/200 is 3 clicks.

Let’s say you have your exposure set, but choose to open up from f8 to f4 for shallower dof.

Count the clicks, then adjust the other items in the exposure triangle by an equal number of clicks total.

So, you might then decrease ISO by 6 clicks.
Or, increase the shutter speed by 6 clicks.
Or 2 of one and 4 of another.

@caseyliss @marcoarment @siracusa

if Casey employed the same level of critical thought when choosing a car as John employs when choosing a centre speaker, there’s little doubt he’d be driving only yellow cars.

Why? Because Casey is all about safety and there are people who didn’t die simply because they chose a yellow car 😜