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Re: iOS 15.5 beta 1 changes and features: Wallet updates & handy new HomePod feature [Video]

captainslim — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:21:20 -0000

What happens if you click the new Apple Cash Send and Request buttons? Does it open a share sheet? Messages app? Something else?

Re: Apple Pay surpasses Venmo and PayPal as teens’ favorite payment app, shows Piper Sandler survey

captainslim — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:56:27 -0000

It’s not clear what this means. Apple Cash is the thing that competes with Venmo, Cash App, et al, for making peer-to-peer payments to friends. Apple Pay is a way to pay merchants with credit and debit cards using an iPhone rather than a physical card. Did the survey really compare the use of Apple Pay to the use of Venmo? That doesn’t really make much sense, since they’re used for different purposes. Or does this article say Apple Pay when it really meant Apple Cash?

Re: iOS 15.4 beta 3 now prompts users to review Emergency SOS settings after update

captainslim — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:55:42 -0000

…Emergency SOS feature, which is used to call emergency contacts

I believe you mean, “emergency services,” not “emergency contacts.” Emergency contacts are your personal contacts who are notified by text when you call emergency services. There’s a similar mistake two paragraphs later.

Re: http://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile

captainslim — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 21:31:19 -0000

Both my iPhone 12 Pro Max and new 5G iPad mini are behaving like yours, full bars but no connectivity. Strangely enough, if I disable 5G and force LTE they still don’t work, but my mother’s iPhone XS (I’m at her house), which is not 5G-capable, is working fine on LTE. If I force my Apple Watch onto an LTE connection, it also works fine.

Re: I Mailed an AirTag and Tracked Its Progress; Here’s What Happened

captainslim — Thu, 13 May 2021 06:27:35 -0000

Yes, at that point it should have made a noise when it was moved. Why it didn’t I don’t know.

Re: I Mailed an AirTag and Tracked Its Progress; Here’s What Happened

captainslim — Tue, 11 May 2021 17:40:58 -0000

It makes sense that your friend didn’t get any alerts. You get an alert if the tag is following you as you change locations, and even then it won’t alert you until you get home or arrive somewhere else your phone has recorded as a significant location.

If you were alerted to the presence of any AirTag that is not near its owner for a period of time, someone living in an apartment might be alerted that an AirTag was following him if his neighbor had left town and had left an active AirTag at home. That would raise a lot of unnecessary alarm.

Also, the three-day threshold is when an AirTag starts emitting a chime when it’s moved. This is to alert non-iOS users. Three days has nothing to do with iPhone users getting an alert. That’ll typically happen much sooner, as outlined above.

Re: Square Cash

captainslim — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:52:14 -0000

There’s a virtual debit card attached to your Square Cash account. Add that to Apple Pay, and you can use Square Cash to pay anywhere you can use Apple Pay (like places that use the Square mobile chip card reader).

Re: Apple Pay Europe Release Date: Belgium launch set for summer | BGR

captainslim — Thu, 21 May 2015 06:09:23 -0000

Maybe I've just gotten lucky, but I use Apple Pay in Europe all the time. I've had success in the U.K., Germany, Spain, and Poland. The only case where an NFC terminal failed to accept it in the way you describe was in Hungary. In every single other case where I've attempted to use it at an NFC terminal, it's worked.

Re: Apple Pay Europe Release Date: Belgium launch set for summer | BGR

captainslim — Wed, 20 May 2015 20:16:01 -0000

You can already use Apple Pay all over the place in Europe; it's more commonly accepted by merchants in Europe than it is by merchants in the U.S.

When you say it's only available in the U.S., you're talking about the consumer end; i.e. only credit cards issued by U.S. banks can be added to Apple Pay. But a U.S. Apple Pay user can go to Europe today and find that it's accepted pretty widely.

Re: Apple Pay Comes to Kiosks, Vending Machines, Parking Services, Laundry Equipment, and More

captainslim — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:34:07 -0000

It's not the case that Apple Pay is generally not available outside the U.S. I've used it in many places in Europe; the credit card terminals there accept chip-and-PIN credit cards, and I've found that those terminals also usually accept NFC payments. You can use it at places where they've never even heard of Apple Pay.

Re: The dark side of Apple’s two-factor authentication

captainslim — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:14:24 -0000

Just out of curiosity, was the pixelated part W5QY? (I'm a little unsure of the third character.)

Thanks for the great article. I just located my own backup key, of which I had a printed and an electronic copy (though I'd forgotten there even was such a thing).

Re: The dark side of Apple’s two-factor authentication

captainslim — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:57:07 -0000

I imagine you've already changed the key, but I believe I can read the pixelated bit by simply looking at it without my reading glasses on.

Re: IFTTT Blog - Introducing the Nest Thermostat and Nest Protect Channels

captainslim — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 12:35:22 -0000

I don't know if it's part of the Nest API, but I'd like to be able to turn off my air conditioning altogether if my balcony door is open.

Re: Motorola's NVG510 DSL modem... not very good

captainslim — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:05:19 -0000

I've had a terrible experience with the NVG510. I was going to replace it with a $50 Netgear DSL modem I found at Best Buy, but on the box it says explicitly that it doesn't work with U-Verse. I don't know if this is accurate--I don't have U-Verse phone or television, and I think I'm using ADSL2+ rather than VDSL, and I suspect that it's actually VDSL that they don't support.

Here are my thoughts on the matter:

https://plus.google.com/112...

Re: Ping.fm / Blog / Picture Perfect, They Say

captainslim — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:53:18 -0000

You read my mind about the native Brightkite picture posting. This is really fantastic.

Re: A new kind of Twitter outage (Scripting News)

captainslim — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:49:28 -0000

I'm getting updates from only some of the people I follow. It appears that if someone I'm following has a lot of followers (Scoble, Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann), then I'm not getting his updates.