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DNSmadeasy.com miscounting queries, charging thousands in dubious overages

Check your DNSmadeeasy overage charges carefully. "Our counting system is broken" is not an excuse many judges would accept.

Lunar Monitor Control for M1 Macs

Lunar is powerful and ambitious software. No one else has taken on Apple's crippling of monitor controls in quite the same head-on way.

Why charee144 from Apple Discussions should be fired tomorrow

What's wrong with Apple Discussions community forums and how to fix them.

How to stop an iPhone from charging past 80% and extend the life of its battery

There's a lot of bad battery apps out there (ripoff-ware, adware, spyware) but there's one very good one which will extend the life of an iPhone.

How AppleCare+ for Apple Watch really works with ROI numbers for Series 8, SE and Ultra

Apple wins when you use AppleCare+ and pay the forfeit. Apple wins when you upgrade. No matter what happens Apple wins. Without, you lose.

How to get rid of “iCloud for HomeKit must be enabled” alert

Notifications started after upgrade to iOS 15. Finding a solution which works has been difficult enough I'm posting it publicly to help others.

What Twilio’s acquisition of SendGrid means for SendGrid Users

Internet & technology service providers should not have political *opinions* at work. Be very careful where you set up SMTP. It's a pain to move.

How to efficiently track down mystery audio notifications in macOS/OS X

There's a quick way to track down to errant audio beeps/bings/gongs via terminal, using the "lsof" command.

How to setup fail2ban for WordPress with CDN

The key is to configure fail2ban to use `DROP` with iptables instead of just `REJECT`. REJECT allows the IP to keep using an open connection.

Airplay and AppleTV user agents

Here's some useful AppleTV user agent strings from the excellent User-agents.net database to help with Airplay development.

How to build a modern good looking table for email reports

The real trick is with the nth alignment styles which make it very easy to build well-aligned columns.

macOS support for HEIC

Since I have some files on hand and most of the relevant software installed, I decided to systematically look at iPhone HEIC and DNG support some of the major photo viewers/triage tools and RAW developers as of March 2022. This is an updated list from November 2020 where the situation was fairly dire. There’s much […]