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.

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:

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”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Battery Health of an iOS Device - coconutBattery - requires macOS

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

Mac: If you really need to see who's using your disk including file details

sudo fs_usage -f filesys