no more keyboard viewer and I actually like that.
2016-10-30
macOS: On-Screen Keyboard. Gone is the viewer, it's directly in the input sources within system preferences
There is no separate viewer, but you have to use the system preferences pane - keyboard - input sources and you'll see a live representation of the layout!
no more keyboard viewer and I actually like that.
no more keyboard viewer and I actually like that.
Citrix Receiver: Keyboard layout issue with ICA then RDP from macOS
Problem:
I could not really work with SSL VPN and Citrix Receiver and connect to multiple machines. The keyboard mapping was always incorrect (usually not on the first system, but on the RDP'd to machines).
- Install Citrix Receiver
- Make modifications to /Users/<Username>/Library/Application Support/Citrix/Citrix Receiver/config
** if you connect first and then change this setting the established sessions will not use the updated setting, in my expierence I had to terminate all my sessions (multiple possible) on the terminal servers **
- Start Receiver
- Connect to Desktop or RDP published app
- Connect to destination computer
Keyboard mapping should still work.
(But there are many different kind of issues, that I have not yet described. On iPad it is even worse as I have not found out a fix for something alike.)
The fix is described in:
- Make modifications to /Users/<Username>/Library/Application Support/Citrix/Citrix Receiver/config
** if you connect first and then change this setting the established sessions will not use the updated setting, in my expierence I had to terminate all my sessions (multiple possible) on the terminal servers **
- Start Receiver
- Connect to Desktop or RDP published app
- Connect to destination computer
Keyboard mapping should still work.
(But there are many different kind of issues, that I have not yet described. On iPad it is even worse as I have not found out a fix for something alike.)
The fix is described in:
http://blogs.it-advisor.ch/?p=94
Config File location:
/Users/Username/Library/Application Support/Citrix/Citrix Receiver/config
Set the KeyboardLayout setting to your language such as:
“(Server Default)”
“Albanian” “Belarusian”
“Belgian Dutch”
“Belgian French”
“Brazilian (ABNT)”
“British”
“Bulgarian (Latin)”
“Bulgarian”
“Canadian English (Multilingual)”
“Canadian French (Multilingual)”
“Canadian French”
“Croatian”
“Czech (QWERTY)”
“Czech”
“Danish”
“Dutch”
“Estonian”
“Finnish”
“French”
“German (IBM)”
“German”
“Greek (220) Latin”
“Greek (220)”
“Greek (319) Latin”
“Greek (319)”
“Greek Latin”
“Greek”
“Hungarian 101-Key”
“Hungarian”
“Icelandic”
“Irish”
“Italian (142)”
“Italian”
“Japanese (client and server IME)”
“Japanese (client IME only)”
“Japanese (server IME only)”
“Korean” “Latin American”
“Latvian (QWERTY)”
“Latvian”
“Lithuanian”
“Norwegian”
“Polish (214)”
“Polish (Programmers)”
“Portuguese”
“Romanian”
“Russian (Typewriter)”
“Russian”
“Serbian (Cyrillic)”
“Serbian (Latin)”
“Slovak (QWERTY)”
“Slovak”
“Slovenian”
“Spanish Variation”
“Spanish”
“Swedish”
“Swiss French”
“Swiss German”
“Taiwan”
“Turkish (F)”
“Turkish (Q)”
“Ukrainian”
“United Kingdom”
“US”
“US-Dvorak for Right hand”
“US-Dvorak for left hand”
“US-Dvorak”
“US-International”
Config File location:
/Users/Username/Library/Application Support/Citrix/Citrix Receiver/config
Set the KeyboardLayout setting to your language such as:
“(Server Default)”
“Albanian” “Belarusian”
“Belgian Dutch”
“Belgian French”
“Brazilian (ABNT)”
“British”
“Bulgarian (Latin)”
“Bulgarian”
“Canadian English (Multilingual)”
“Canadian French (Multilingual)”
“Canadian French”
“Croatian”
“Czech (QWERTY)”
“Czech”
“Danish”
“Dutch”
“Estonian”
“Finnish”
“French”
“German (IBM)”
“German”
“Greek (220) Latin”
“Greek (220)”
“Greek (319) Latin”
“Greek (319)”
“Greek Latin”
“Greek”
“Hungarian 101-Key”
“Hungarian”
“Icelandic”
“Irish”
“Italian (142)”
“Italian”
“Japanese (client and server IME)”
“Japanese (client IME only)”
“Japanese (server IME only)”
“Korean” “Latin American”
“Latvian (QWERTY)”
“Latvian”
“Lithuanian”
“Norwegian”
“Polish (214)”
“Polish (Programmers)”
“Portuguese”
“Romanian”
“Russian (Typewriter)”
“Russian”
“Serbian (Cyrillic)”
“Serbian (Latin)”
“Slovak (QWERTY)”
“Slovak”
“Slovenian”
“Spanish Variation”
“Spanish”
“Swedish”
“Swiss French”
“Swiss German”
“Taiwan”
“Turkish (F)”
“Turkish (Q)”
“Ukrainian”
“United Kingdom”
“US”
“US-Dvorak for Right hand”
“US-Dvorak for left hand”
“US-Dvorak”
“US-International”
I modified the config file and it works like a charm.
KeyboardLayout=Swiss German
Make sure you log out from the previously started session, disconnect is not going to do the trick. Then it will work.
KeyboardLayout=Swiss German
Make sure you log out from the previously started session, disconnect is not going to do the trick. Then it will work.
2016-10-29
Apple pencil issues: especially in notes
Now, they fixed the pen, but the tilting seems to be less responsive? WTH.
Ok, the pen was the real issue.
Now another major issue is to be able to draw over photos, to draw over text, to convert pen input into text........
Go work on it.
2016-10-26
Apple, Apple, Apple, oh boy they finally fixed the pen!!!! 10.1 to the rescue?
Come on. There are so many small items that make the iPad Pro a pain and one big part was that iOS on iPad Pro 12.9" and the apple pencil did not really work and make sense.
I think I posted it before:
- to much latency
- tilting does not react fast enough or fine enough
And worst of all
- pen in notes modifies input, i.e. Removes many small details with an adapted line. Your handwritten text looks ugly!!! the only one working was pencil, but that you could not have a more solid pencil color, but very grayish, i.e. Unreadable if not applying a lot of pressure!
I just noticed now that in 10.1 the pen works and the strokes seem to be as you actually put it!!
Thanks a lot. But it took you too long. As with other issues. Apple you need to act faster and be more forthcomming on issues.
I still don't know where to report my 100+ issues and get quality feedback. But most often I'm not the only one and many items do seem to be important to other users as well.
2016-10-16
Outdated!!iOS: Modify Video and Photo Date/Time and Location. Don't waste your time and hand over some money to Organizer (Genady Okrain)
Since I'm trying to work only with iOS many tasks are just way to complicated and for some there is no solution.
Especially Photos and Videos in the iOS Photos App or in the browser based version lack a lot of features.
So you have had a few hundred gigabytes of camcorder tapes and recorded them onto disk but did not convert them?
Had to go back to a MAC and use iMovie to convert to mp4. That was done.
(I did not want to spend time and convert the movies on the iPhone or iPad, maybe I'm going to attempt that in the future, but I did not think I could attach my 3.5" USB 2 external drive to the device and directly access and convert ;))
Now I use mac os sierra and everything is on icloud, so the movies got to be uploaded to icloud drive, desktop folder (I know I'm ashamed of it but even I use sometimes the desktop).
Then I opened on the iPad the icloud Drive and files and saved video. This took a crazy amount of time. (The iCloud Drive is far from perfect, and gives no real update or status on what it is doing).
Now on iCloud Photo Library the movies did not have the name of the file, i.e. date missing. (I did not find out on how to add the date with iMovie in the first place!).
After two hours of searching and testing for some application I found an iOS App from Genady Okrain, that works with Photos and Videos. I took too much effort to find it, but it works. So I went ahead and tipped him $1 and I wish others follow too.
I wish others don't have to spend so much time searching for an app that simply does what one needs, which is modify date/time and location.
The app is clever, i.e. after I selected only a single video and applied some location to it. I thought that I have to repeat the process for each other movie. But alas, there is a search icon and it lists the last one used!!! Time saver again.
Now let's see if I can modify the few hundred files. There will be even more after I found out how to split the 1 hour tapes, that I could not detect scenes into smaller clips.
Especially Photos and Videos in the iOS Photos App or in the browser based version lack a lot of features.
So you have had a few hundred gigabytes of camcorder tapes and recorded them onto disk but did not convert them?
Had to go back to a MAC and use iMovie to convert to mp4. That was done.
(I did not want to spend time and convert the movies on the iPhone or iPad, maybe I'm going to attempt that in the future, but I did not think I could attach my 3.5" USB 2 external drive to the device and directly access and convert ;))
Now I use mac os sierra and everything is on icloud, so the movies got to be uploaded to icloud drive, desktop folder (I know I'm ashamed of it but even I use sometimes the desktop).
Then I opened on the iPad the icloud Drive and files and saved video. This took a crazy amount of time. (The iCloud Drive is far from perfect, and gives no real update or status on what it is doing).
Now on iCloud Photo Library the movies did not have the name of the file, i.e. date missing. (I did not find out on how to add the date with iMovie in the first place!).
After two hours of searching and testing for some application I found an iOS App from Genady Okrain, that works with Photos and Videos. I took too much effort to find it, but it works. So I went ahead and tipped him $1 and I wish others follow too.
I wish others don't have to spend so much time searching for an app that simply does what one needs, which is modify date/time and location.
The app is clever, i.e. after I selected only a single video and applied some location to it. I thought that I have to repeat the process for each other movie. But alas, there is a search icon and it lists the last one used!!! Time saver again.
Now let's see if I can modify the few hundred files. There will be even more after I found out how to split the 1 hour tapes, that I could not detect scenes into smaller clips.
2016-10-15
Prevent Spotlight from Indexing
https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/three-ways-to-prevent-spotlight-from-indexing-items-on-your-mac/
Just use spotlight settings and add the external disk that you don't want it to index.
If you have a couple of Terabyte external disk drives and you don't want to waste hours of indexing that you don't require. Disable it.
Just use spotlight settings and add the external disk that you don't want it to index.
If you have a couple of Terabyte external disk drives and you don't want to waste hours of indexing that you don't require. Disable it.
Battery Health of an iOS Device - coconutBattery - requires macOS
http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/
2016-09-08
Photos: Google Photos against Apple Photos: Black and White - Apple does not return results whereas Google does!
Now all the apps have become intelligent.
Most often I don't know exactly what I'm looking for but I need to search for certain criteria to help me find my stuff.
One of the examples that I always would benefit from is:
Keyword search
Black and White
Google really shows pictures that are related, some color pictures with black and white in it, some only black and white, some faded colored ones. Very Good.
Apple no results ;(((
Vintage
Google shows a couple of photos that have some type of old equipment in it and vintage furniture and some of PROXIM Access Points that I would not have called vintage per se. Quite ok.
Apple no results again ;((((
Face recognition
Google is far superior, matching many more than Apple. It even matches old vintage photos of my father in law as a child!
Apple is somewhat ok, better than it used to be but way to manual and it took me 100+ attempts to add and merge people into one ;((((
Most often I don't know exactly what I'm looking for but I need to search for certain criteria to help me find my stuff.
One of the examples that I always would benefit from is:
Keyword search
Black and White
Google really shows pictures that are related, some color pictures with black and white in it, some only black and white, some faded colored ones. Very Good.
Apple no results ;(((
Vintage
Google shows a couple of photos that have some type of old equipment in it and vintage furniture and some of PROXIM Access Points that I would not have called vintage per se. Quite ok.
Apple no results again ;((((
Face recognition
Google is far superior, matching many more than Apple. It even matches old vintage photos of my father in law as a child!
Apple is somewhat ok, better than it used to be but way to manual and it took me 100+ attempts to add and merge people into one ;((((
Photos: Google Photos against Apple Photos: Black and White - Apple does not return results whereas Google does!
Now all the apps have become intelligent.
Most often I don't know exactly what I'm looking for but I need to search for certain criteria to help me find my stuff.
One of the examples that I always would benefit from is:
Keyword search
Black and White
Google really shows pictures that are related, some color pictures with black and white in it, some only black and white, some faded colored ones. Very Good.
Apple no results ;(((
Vintage
Google shows a couple of photos that have some type of old equipment in it and vintage furniture and some of PROXIM Access Points that I would not have called vintage per se. Quite ok.
Apple no results again ;((((
Face recognition
Google is far superior, matching many more than Apple. It even matches old vintage photos of my father in law as a child!
Apple is somewhat ok, better than it used to be but way to manual and it took me 100+ attempts to add and merge people into one ;((((
Most often I don't know exactly what I'm looking for but I need to search for certain criteria to help me find my stuff.
One of the examples that I always would benefit from is:
Keyword search
Black and White
Google really shows pictures that are related, some color pictures with black and white in it, some only black and white, some faded colored ones. Very Good.
Apple no results ;(((
Vintage
Google shows a couple of photos that have some type of old equipment in it and vintage furniture and some of PROXIM Access Points that I would not have called vintage per se. Quite ok.
Apple no results again ;((((
Face recognition
Google is far superior, matching many more than Apple. It even matches old vintage photos of my father in law as a child!
Apple is somewhat ok, better than it used to be but way to manual and it took me 100+ attempts to add and merge people into one ;((((
2016-08-30
Linux: Samba: copying a file to a linux samba server that has an NFS mount attached fails with locked a portion of the file
spent a little to much time before I found the correct solution. Now someone should point me to the detailed description on what can go wrong with strict locking off ;))
https://www.jamescoyle.net/how-to/340-samba-the-process-cannot-access-the-file-because-another-process-has-locked-a-portion-of-the-file
2016-07-29
iPad Pro 12.9": Citrix Receiver 7.0.2 released,
Citrix has released a new version of Citrix Receiver and it really looks like they have addressed some issues.
- SHIFT+Click, CTRL+Click
So far I have only been able to confirm that with the X1 I actually can make use of SHIFT+Click (rubberband selection) or CTRL+Click (distinct item selection).
The SHIFT+Click does not work in all circumstances, had to attempt it twice multiple times, but hey it's there and works.
- Error 51
seems to be gone as well.
Working daily only with the iPad and Citrix is today a real pain.
But the really bad things are:
1- bluetooth keyboard input lost many times during the day when switching between iOS apps
The keyboard itself works, i.e. I can switch CMD+TAB between iOS apps.
Workaround: The best way to get it working again is to click in the Citrix toolbar the Home button and then select Open on the same published app again.
2- multi-key presses ALT-TAB/CTRL-C/-V/-Z/-A don't work reliably
Very annoying and frustrating. Used hundred times during the day and the behavior is not always the same and in most cases does not work correctly. E.g. In OneNote to select a full note you have to CTRL-A three times and it sometimes works and sometimes after the first attempt it removes the selection with "a". Many times I give up.
3- Citrix X1 mouse cursor lost
Without the mouse I could not work, but I also need the black icon and not only the remote cursor. The remote cursor has to high a delay for me to work with. But many times during the day I loose the black cursor.
Workaround: Use Home and under the options disable and enable X1 mouse again
4- Screen resolution
Even though they confirmed that we will be able to use the native resolution of the iPad, we still cannot make it work. And even with 1600x1400 the iPad says it goes to 85% to display the full content, so It is not really 1600x1400 on the iPad.
No workaround
2016-07-17
Life after the computer: Holiday report: No photo sharing via mobil data and hotspot out of control (iOS 10)
Life after the computer: Holiday report: No photo sharing via mobil data and hotspot out of control (iOS 10)
Dear Apple,
Please fix iCloud Photo Library Sync (enable over Mobile Data if user really wants it).
Please allow me to control access through Hotspot or I don't know how I'm going to pay for the mobile data anymore.
Regards,
Your iOS only customer.
iCloud Photo - No photo sync to iCloud library!!
Hotspot Data usage - 20 GB of data without photo sync within 7 days as opposed to 10GB with photos last year.
Hotspot sharing difficulty - family members still not auto connecting back, only my personal devices.
We went on holiday in Tuscany, Italy. Only equipped with iOS devices. The iPad pro as the main computer and the iPhone as my mobile device.
Now we shot a few hundred photos and some videos as usual, but this time it was no pleasure and I did not find a reasonable way to do things as in the past with OS X and my MacBook Air.
What do you want to do:
Take pictures and videos
Surf the internet
Download apps
Review Photos and Videos on the large screen, maybe edit and create albums.
The last item is the one that causes despair and makes me wish I had a OS X device with me.
This time while having iCloud Photo library enabled and iOS 10 installed I have not been able to sync the photos and videos to the cloud!
No way!
The pictures were taken on my iPhone where the data plan SIM is installed and I share to the rest of the family via Hotspot.
I did not find any option to get my photos to upload. I could not make use of the free wifi at different locations the speed was terrible, it never really worked. My 4G connections was fast where we stayed, around 20 Mbits up and down.
There are some workarounds but I did not want to use them fully.
Photos, Shared - Sharing photos and videos works instantly, i.e. I see the photos and videos on the family sharing page. But I would not want to share all photos and videos like this and then import from there?
Sharing via other methods works as well, Google Photos, AirDrop .... Whatever works via Mobile Data.
This is probably the most devastating. Next to how am I going to pay for mobile data in 2017?
Last year we had a mobile data plan for 14€ for 10 GB in Croatia, which was used up in 7 days. This year I went for 29€ for 20 GB in Italy. 10€ for the SIM and 19€ for the data. This time we also used up the plan in 7 days.
2015 10 GB in 7 days
2016 20 GB in 7 days
But the most important difference is that last time a huge chunk was the photos app upload to iCloud Stream and then the download of it on the MacBook Air.
I tried to switch off iCloud Backup on all other devices, but they still used 17.5 GB whereas I only used 2.5. A single hour could use up to 1.5 GB, a day max was at 5 GB. So I was quite lucky that it lasted 7 days and not only 4 or less.
I need a way to limit what applications can use how much. I would prefer Apple devices to be able to limit the usage of Wifi or tethering, maybe also some priorization.
What has improved is that my own devices connect to the iPhone without issue (did not experience even the first time failures as usual), but for my family members it was as always. Every so often after some quiet period the devices were not connected anymore and I had to activate my telephone and was under the impression that they only got connected after going into the hotspot options in settings.
Dear Apple,
Please fix iCloud Photo Library Sync (enable over Mobile Data if user really wants it).
Please allow me to control access through Hotspot or I don't know how I'm going to pay for the mobile data anymore.
Regards,
Your iOS only customer.
iCloud Photo - No photo sync to iCloud library!!
Hotspot Data usage - 20 GB of data without photo sync within 7 days as opposed to 10GB with photos last year.
Hotspot sharing difficulty - family members still not auto connecting back, only my personal devices.
We went on holiday in Tuscany, Italy. Only equipped with iOS devices. The iPad pro as the main computer and the iPhone as my mobile device.
Now we shot a few hundred photos and some videos as usual, but this time it was no pleasure and I did not find a reasonable way to do things as in the past with OS X and my MacBook Air.
What do you want to do:
Take pictures and videos
Surf the internet
Download apps
Review Photos and Videos on the large screen, maybe edit and create albums.
The last item is the one that causes despair and makes me wish I had a OS X device with me.
- Photos and Videos on iCloud Photo Library
This time while having iCloud Photo library enabled and iOS 10 installed I have not been able to sync the photos and videos to the cloud!
No way!
The pictures were taken on my iPhone where the data plan SIM is installed and I share to the rest of the family via Hotspot.
I did not find any option to get my photos to upload. I could not make use of the free wifi at different locations the speed was terrible, it never really worked. My 4G connections was fast where we stayed, around 20 Mbits up and down.
- Try to find an option that allows upload via Mobile Data. FAILED. Nothing found, not in iCloud or Photos or wherever. Failed to find information at Apple Support website.
- Try to use WLAN at location to upload a few photos at least. No chance, never actually got anything up. Once in Siena at a caffé I got a few KBs up but that was that. FAILED.
- Put the data SIM into my son's iPhone. Worked. Connect to his device via hotspot and try to upload. Did not work, not sure why, maybe it is because of my iOS 10, maybe it is because iOS knows that this is not Wifi? It told me at some point to connect to Wifi to upload again. FAILED.
- Disaster mode. Put the SIM into the Moto G 2015 and enable Tethering. FAILED. I never got anything but Edge. I could hardly browse on the phone itself and could definitely not upload anything.
There are some workarounds but I did not want to use them fully.
Photos, Shared - Sharing photos and videos works instantly, i.e. I see the photos and videos on the family sharing page. But I would not want to share all photos and videos like this and then import from there?
Sharing via other methods works as well, Google Photos, AirDrop .... Whatever works via Mobile Data.
This is probably the most devastating. Next to how am I going to pay for mobile data in 2017?
- Hotspot Data usage
Last year we had a mobile data plan for 14€ for 10 GB in Croatia, which was used up in 7 days. This year I went for 29€ for 20 GB in Italy. 10€ for the SIM and 19€ for the data. This time we also used up the plan in 7 days.
2015 10 GB in 7 days
2016 20 GB in 7 days
But the most important difference is that last time a huge chunk was the photos app upload to iCloud Stream and then the download of it on the MacBook Air.
I tried to switch off iCloud Backup on all other devices, but they still used 17.5 GB whereas I only used 2.5. A single hour could use up to 1.5 GB, a day max was at 5 GB. So I was quite lucky that it lasted 7 days and not only 4 or less.
I need a way to limit what applications can use how much. I would prefer Apple devices to be able to limit the usage of Wifi or tethering, maybe also some priorization.
- Hotspot connectivity
What has improved is that my own devices connect to the iPhone without issue (did not experience even the first time failures as usual), but for my family members it was as always. Every so often after some quiet period the devices were not connected anymore and I had to activate my telephone and was under the impression that they only got connected after going into the hotspot options in settings.
2016-06-27
IPad Pro: Citrix Receiver 7.0.1 does not address any issue, not even error 51?
There is a new Citrix Receiver for iOS version, but it does not fix a single issue of mine.
Not even the Error 51 it says it should. Also it mentions X1 SHIFT-CLICK or CTRL-CLICK but I don't know where they fixed it, as it does not work for me in the windows explorer or any other area that I need this.
- rubber band selection (SHIFT+CLICK, SHIFT+CURSOR UP/DOWN), selective selection (CTRL+CLICK)
- native resolution support of the iPad Pro, currently only 1600x1200 with manually selecting the resolution, auto selection is much lower.
- multi key presses !!!
Interested in:
Pen support, i.e. with the mouse you sometimes can kind of draw in onenote or other applications, not sure how and when it works. Most often press mouse button and draw. Now since there is an Apple Pencil Citrix receiver should support it only for mouse, click and drawing options but not to move the citrix receiver session around.
Nuisances:
- copy/paste absolutely drives one mad, workaround of disabling the clipboard on the TS helps.
- Error 51
- Keyboard sometimes lost, workaround: switch between iOS apps can help but not always.
- X1 mouse cursor lost, workaround: switch between iOS apps, usually helps
- Keyboard layout changes, strange behavior but I usually get it to work, workaround: switch on the remote session to 2nd language
2016-06-21
iPad Pro 12.9": The new corporate work horse? Part 1 of a series of snippets about life with a Pro.
Using an iPad Pro 12.9" as a laptop replacement
You would think that it is a terribly bad idea to use an iPad Pro for a real life replacement of a corporate laptop?
I think you are right.
But, the iPad pro has its own merits that compensate other shortcommings. But there are boat loads of missing features and you need to find many workarounds.
So how does the setup look like?
That's it.
iPad Pro 12.9" 128 GB SSD
Apple Magic Keyboard
Apple Pencil
Citrix X1 Mouse
iPod ;))
What is the number one thing wrong with the iPad?
Definitely a missing kickstand.
Almost in all situations you would immediately benefit from the ability to just place the iPad at multiple angles. Flat surface placement just does not satisfy my and other colleagues need.
Why not use the smart Keyboard?
Why would I pay so much money for an inferior keyboard, a substandard stand and add a lot of weight that I don't want?
Compared to the surface pro kickstand nothing compares, no lenovo, no acer. It is just incredible how good it can be positioned without carrying around cases or stands from simple upgright to almost flat down and it's stiff enough to type on the screen. I only wish they would come up with a clever way to use it also vertically. Many times I would want to put the iPad upgright.
There should be some clever guy and do a kickstarter project to design the perfect kickstand accessory for the iPad. Must be lightweight easily attachable and provide horizontal and vertical stand capability. I have seen the HP version of the kickstand and though I don't really like it maybe the solution is to add some kind of frame. Most importantly also should stick to surfaces and not be easily moved.
So what do I do?
I use the Apple pencil case for multiple positions and keep the iPad in position by placing the magic keyboard in front of it. I even can use the iPad on the airplane with only the keyboard securing the iPad against the front seat. I know it is stupid that there is no built-in kickstand, but hey, you have to make do.
Here is a picture of the iPad with the Apple pencil case in it's 2nd position.
2016-06-15
iPad Pro: New Citrix receiver 7 for iOS is out
Update: my issues are not addressed with this version, but adds a new Error 51.
Ok. Here it is, the version that should get pros working much better hopefully.
As I see a lot of people using iPad Pros as the replacement for their laptops, Citrix Receiver has become much more important. Most of the issues with iOS force many people to go that way and then they detect that neither iOS nor Citrix Receiver really make everything work.
It's a compromise.
So hopefully we can use now the native iPad Pro resolution.
Going to write about the experience in general in one of the next blogs.
Go get it and test it!
2016-06-09
iPad Pro: No more Windows or Mac OS
http://www.imore.com/19-ipad-pro-software-improvements-i-want-see-wwdc-2016?utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=navigation&utm_source=im
The article highlights some interesting points, but does not really fit my own priority list. My own experience and the missing pieces will be reported hopefully before Monday.
The article highlights some interesting points, but does not really fit my own priority list. My own experience and the missing pieces will be reported hopefully before Monday.
2016-06-04
4K Video Odyssey: How I thought I can easily upload and watch 4K Videoon youtube, boy was I wrong.
The Goal: Get the raw video as fast as possible onto youtube in 4K, simple, right?
The Gear: iPhone 6S Plus, iMac OS X 10.11.4, Samsung 65" 4K with Youtube app.
The Geek: prehistoric experience, top notch can do everything, damn it's my job.
Draft: Due to lack of time and because it took me more than 5 minutes, to be continued.
Preliminary Conclusion: Use iMovie - on iPhone or Mac OS X and upload to YouTube in 4K!
Currently the only method to guarantee that you will get 4K Video on Youtube is to use iMovie on iPhone or Mac OS X. All my other attemps failed.
Warning: On the iPad in Youtube I only get a display of up to 1440p for my videos even though they are available at 4K! Again no idea how to easily verify what quality is available.
Full Story:
Live is good.
Some background as to why you might ever want to do the same:
Now after some time you think that either you want to see that great video in its full glory, or you want to convice the guest that the video you shot is absolutely marvelous and it's in 4K, right.
The video is as crapy as the other videos 20 years ago, the technique of the operator has not improved and all the technical jumbo mumbo did not really help. Except that previously your and other viewers eyes were able to decide that it's crap and noisy and that was it and today everyone gets blurry vision and dizzyness ;)
Ok, so let's start.
Video is 4K, 28seconds, 178.9 MB
Attempt:
1) iPhone - Photos - Share
Select Video, tap Share
first it takes about 2 minutes to process, then you can define parameters but only sd (2.1MB)or hd (16.1), that does not sound like 4k
FAILED
) iPhone - youtube - upload
Settings say max upload quality 1080p.
Funny how it does not show all my videos of iphoto?
FAILED
1) iMac Photo Library - Share - FAILED
select video, tap Share ..... What no youtube??? FAILED
2) iMac Photo Library - Export - 1st option
select video, menu edit, export, choose 4K, folder Desktop, go ...............
........wait.......wait longer .............. While waiting go to attempt 3 as it is so long to wait only to get the video onto the desktop ;(
Coming back after Attempt 3 failed.
Use safari, goto youtube.com and upload video. (No option found that says anything about the resolution)
On TV select the video and
3) iMac iMovie -
Start iMovie, find a way to somehow share directly. FAILED.
Must start a project, find video ..... Wait ...... The icloud photo library takes time to show up, even slower than before, where it was just in iPhoto.
By this time Attempt 2 is still exporting!!
Select Video, click plus then select Share, Youtube.
Upload is quite fast, done.
Switch on TV, Smart Hub, Select youtube and .. Oh I did not yet connect the youtube app to my account .... D .. Grab phone enter the thing and ok, it connects to my account.
Start playing video -> what quality is this???? Definitely not 4K. No idea what resolution. Youtube on Samsung does not have an option to change quality?
FAILED, for now, might take a look later again.
We are already at 7 minutes in, not 5 as originally planned.
go back to attempt 2
2016-06-02
Windows 10: Default printer keeps changing, especially if you use webex!
If you wonder why Webex redirection is always the default printer on your Windows 10 Box, then go and switch off the setting, under printers and scanners, "Let Windows manage my default printer".
And you are all set.
And you are all set.
2016-05-18
Apple iOS 9.3.2 Battery drain: iPad Pro 12.9" Battery life shortened by 2 hours
Does 9.3.2 final version affect battery life?
But I can only work like that thanks to Citrix Receiver. So I was running 9.3.1 and then 9.3.2 Beta versions and have been at a training from 8pm to 6pm and I never had to charge the iPad Pro.
Now I upgraded to 9.3.2 Final and after 4 hours 50 minutes I'm down to 14% what is really strange is that two hours before I still had %57 percent. Also I was 50 minutes out for lunch.
Now the time is 15:26 and I only have 8% left. I won't make it to 6pm without charging.
Most probably this becomes the biggest issue now as you always have to worry about battery life as with your other devices. I'm writing a post about how to use the device at work and the battery life was excellent. Now I have to revisit that chapter.
Most interesting will be to identify how much the brightness affects battery life, I usually need the device to be on 3 quarter of max or even a little bit brighter.
2016-04-21
Google Local Guide Program: Boy am I late ** Topic should get updated **
You cannot imagine how late I'm into the game of Google Local Guides.
Most often I reviewed places in different programs and apps but I never really touched Google for much.
The quality of Apple and Google Maps is in my opinion terrible and has not dramatically improved.
But the Google Local Guide Program is fun.
- Add pictures
- Add reviews
- Answer questions
- Missing:
Keeps you occupied for some time and then they probably let it die, like so many other good ideas?
Most often I reviewed places in different programs and apps but I never really touched Google for much.
The quality of Apple and Google Maps is in my opinion terrible and has not dramatically improved.
But the Google Local Guide Program is fun.
- Add pictures
- Add reviews
- Answer questions
- Missing:
- Most important rate reviews and Photos and if people like your reviews/photos allow them to show these comments first when searching.
- But do not allow to track a person!
- From iPhotos or Google Photos, directly attach a photo to a place.
- It takes so much time to go into maps and then select a photo from gallery.
- Read the location of the photo show a map and suggest placement.
- Picture editing features
- Remove peoples faces
- Remove people if multiple photos taken from the same scene
- Remove window reflections
- Picture information
- Show pictures of the current time and season
- Show pictures from other sources if public available
- Show information crowdsourced in categories
- Show reviews based on visitors or locals
- Show reviews with a few categorizations
- Map videos to locations
- Enable OCR from pictures or text recognition for opening hours, really terrible to enter manually, takes way too long.
As always with the internet, the information might be there, too hard to find and use, 93% is redundant and of minor quality. Focus should be to reach a better data level quality.
- As a bonus to some of the local guides, provide early access to camera rigs to capture the world around them.
- I hate having to point my camera at everything:
- need a bike mount /helmet mount
- automatic synchronization of known locations with pictures
- need a drone that follows me, slightly above shoulder height, and let me remotely trigger pictures.
Keeps you occupied for some time and then they probably let it die, like so many other good ideas?
2016-04-20
Apple iCloud Photo Library Rants: Really bad if you have 80'000 photos and a 16GB iPad mini
Summary:
I love i Cloud Photo Library and yes I would prefer to pay less for the 1TB Storage I subscribed to just recently.
The product is quite useful, except if you own a 16GB iPad mini and have a huge number of photos, videos etc. In my case 80'000.
After enabling it the iPad will, even with the optimized storage setting, fill all available space -15 MB.
Any kind of application that you try to install will not work (most of the applications are bigger than the 15 MB available).
Now you think you are clever and search frantically some applications to delete or delete data (which is cumbersome since some iOS release removed the convenient delete data under the storage settings page), but heck the free space is immediately filled with more photos/videos. 15 MB is all I got and I get many times the low free space error message.
I gave up, I won't even try to find a solution. I removed iCloud Photo Library setting and use Google Photos, that I also use to back up all my photos. That one does not fill my iPad mini as fast and I can still make use of it.
Also I tried to make use Google Chrome (forcing request desktop site) and it seemed to work just nicely, but the tab on Chrome 50 crashes frequently.
- iCloud Photo Library fills your 16GB iPad mini and renders it almost unusable.
- During the first few hours your iPad might be sweating a lot and it feels like an original iPad 2
Workaround:
- use Safari https://icloud.com (but request desktop site mandatory)
Plea to Apple:
- Fix the Photos app not to fill out all the storage on the device, while allowing me to access everything but implement clever caching. Google Photos is quite clever and does not use more than 660 MB in my case.
Story:
I love i Cloud Photo Library and yes I would prefer to pay less for the 1TB Storage I subscribed to just recently.
The product is quite useful, except if you own a 16GB iPad mini and have a huge number of photos, videos etc. In my case 80'000.
After enabling it the iPad will, even with the optimized storage setting, fill all available space -15 MB.
Any kind of application that you try to install will not work (most of the applications are bigger than the 15 MB available).
Now you think you are clever and search frantically some applications to delete or delete data (which is cumbersome since some iOS release removed the convenient delete data under the storage settings page), but heck the free space is immediately filled with more photos/videos. 15 MB is all I got and I get many times the low free space error message.
I gave up, I won't even try to find a solution. I removed iCloud Photo Library setting and use Google Photos, that I also use to back up all my photos. That one does not fill my iPad mini as fast and I can still make use of it.
Also I tried to make use Google Chrome (forcing request desktop site) and it seemed to work just nicely, but the tab on Chrome 50 crashes frequently.
2016-01-17
Apple: Finally addressing iBooks in the right direction: iCloud iBook sync!
iBooks cloud support. Update: It does not look like they did much to help most of the users.
Had not read anywhere about this functionality; even though some of my sources reported it.
https://twitter.com/viticci/status/686650137012236291
But it could start to become the productivity tool and many schools and businesses could start benefiting from it.
iBooks was a pain and still is a pain. No extensions allow to make better use of the pdfs and other free epubs available.
Now today, I just found out that iBooks offers me to upload my pdfs and epubs into iCloud. This is grand and if they allow me to modify my stuff with pdf editors then I'm in heaven. (Looks like it's too soon.)
Had not read anywhere about this functionality; even though some of my sources reported it.
https://twitter.com/viticci/status/686650137012236291
But it could start to become the productivity tool and many schools and businesses could start benefiting from it.
iBooks was a pain and still is a pain. No extensions allow to make better use of the pdfs and other free epubs available.
Now today, I just found out that iBooks offers me to upload my pdfs and epubs into iCloud. This is grand and if they allow me to modify my stuff with pdf editors then I'm in heaven. (Looks like it's too soon.)
2016-01-03
Apple: Home Sharing: iOS 9.2 - don't loose as much time as I did and add a single song to the iPhone/iPod/iPad and it works
You got a family at home and a central iMac where you store all your music?
I also make use of an Apple TV and since we all are now on iOS 9.2, except the old iPods we could never actually use the home sharing feature for music.
Not me on my iPhone 6S Plus not on the older phones etc. Never did I find the option to actually play something over home sharing. Apple TV always worked.
I spent too much time addressing the issue and hope that you won't.
Load a single song or album onto the device and then you can select the home share option and you're good to go.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/07/22/how-to-enable-home-sharing-in-the-ios-9-beta
I also make use of an Apple TV and since we all are now on iOS 9.2, except the old iPods we could never actually use the home sharing feature for music.
Not me on my iPhone 6S Plus not on the older phones etc. Never did I find the option to actually play something over home sharing. Apple TV always worked.
I spent too much time addressing the issue and hope that you won't.
Load a single song or album onto the device and then you can select the home share option and you're good to go.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/07/22/how-to-enable-home-sharing-in-the-ios-9-beta
Home Sharing option is then at the bottom as shown by Appleinsider on the right side of the picture.
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