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Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/08

On my list of things to try: [Wayback/Archive] Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.

Goal is to see if the iPad can function as a larger touchpad to assist drawing on my MacBook.

Links:

Via:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] use ipad as mouse – Google Suche

--jeroen

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Apple iPad dimensions – the complete list – Ebook Friendly

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/25

Reasonably complete list if iPad models and their sizes: [Wayback/Archive] Apple iPad dimensions – the complete list – Ebook Friendly

It is easier to read than lists here:

The reason for searching was that I contemplated about buying a large iPad to use as combination of dual-screen and note reading during music performance/practice.

TL;DR: Large models are iPad Pro 12.9″ (2015-now; 2018-now are still supported by iPadOS) and iPad Air 13″ (2024-now) which has a M2 processor (the same as the 2022 iPad Pro 12.9″)

Query [Wayback/Archive] ipad screen sizes history – Google Search

--jeroen

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DEF CON 30 – stacksmashing – The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking – YouTube (using Raspberry Pi Zero and hand modified lightning extension cable)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/16

From a few years back when Lightning debugging cables were either expensive, hard or not to get at all: [Wayback/Archive] DEF CON 30 – stacksmashing – The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking – YouTube.

Basically it is a Raspberry Pi Zero with adapted firmware connected to half a lightning extension cable.

A textual description (I wish it was linked from the above video) is at [Wayback/Archive] stacksmashing – The hitchhacker’s guide to iPhone Lightning & JTAG hacking – DEF CON Forums, which in turn refers to:

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Use an iPad as a second display for a Mac – Apple Support

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/03

While recovering from cancer treatments and moving, I heavily cut down on spending money for my IT infrastructure as you can only spend money once.

Now that I have recovered quite a bit, and also gaining more income, I got more recent Apple hardware and could start to use this: [Wayback/Archive] Use an iPad as a second display for a Mac – Apple Support

It’s called Sidecar in Apple terminology and actually quite neat, though you need extra software to use the iPad in portrait mode (it is hard coded to landscape though a 10-inch iPad Pro fits very nicely in portrait position next to a 16-inch M1 MacBook Pro).

If I persist, I need to look at solutions like [Wayback/Archive] Rotated Sidecar · waydabber/BetterDisplay Wiki · GitHub ([Wayback/Archive] GitHub – waydabber/BetterDisplay: Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!)

Sidecar is part of Handoff, so these preconditions apply: [Wayback/Archive] Use Handoff to continue tasks on your other devices – Apple Support.

In the end, I think it is all based on AirDrop, especially because of the first Apple Support link above mentioning these “Additional requirements”:

Via:

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Forbes: NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users—Disable Location Tracking

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/16

[Wayback/Archive] NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users—Disable Location Tracking

Related: [Wayback/Archive] Advertising ID – Play Console Help

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Add AirPlay to Your Classic Stereo with an Old Apple TV – TidBITS

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/19

[Wayback/Archive.is] Add AirPlay to Your Classic Stereo with an Old Apple TV – TidBITS which has a good description including a list of needed parts:

  • Second- or third-generation Apple TV
  • Power cable
  • TOSLINK Digital-to-Analog (D/A) Converter
  • Pair of RCA Cables

These are only needed the first time to setup the Apple TV 2nd or 3rd generation:

  • HDMI Cable
  • Remote

Note that the Apple TV 4th generation or Apple TV 4K devices won’t work: they lack a TOSLINK interface.

You can work around this by using an HDMI audio extractor [Wayback/Archive.is]. Some can provide S/PDIF / TOSLINK output, others can directly do line out (so you do not need the above TOSLINK D/A converter):

Usually the Apple TV 2nd or 3rd generation solution is way cheaper, as they go for very little money on second hand sites.

–jeroen

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appletv – How can I show a read-only version of Google Calendar on Apple TV 4th generation? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/14

Two calendars and three weather frames.Based on [WayBack] appletv – How can I show a read-only version of Google Calendar on Apple TV 4th generation? – Ask Different there is one choice that might work on Apple TV 3rd generation and 4th generation:

This is the only practical solution I dissected from [WayBack] How to surf the web and use Safari on Apple TV – Macworld UK: Here is how to browse the internet and watch web services on your Apple TV.

Installing requires a few steps as described at

Limiting to only Apple TV 4, another solution is also possible:

However the last solution is not a real web browser, so it does not allow a layout I’m using for the calendar, or actually two calendars:

  • weekly calendar on the left so my brother sees his detailed activities for the upcoming days
  • monthly calendar on the top right for an overview of the past and upcoming weeks
  • three weather frames on the bottom right with two weather radars from different sources and a weather overview for the upcoming days

The reason I need this is because my brother is mentally retarded having problems with abstract concepts like relative time and scheduling. Like me he is also easily distracted and not good at repeating tasks. So looking at a schedule at least once a day is tough for him.

He is very good at concrete topics, especially ones he can put to practice right away like “will it rain on my way to work”. That makes him look at this web page in the first place.

Currently this calendar is shown on a monitor by a Raspberry Pi attached to it.

But I might go for the Apple TV 3 route later on.

–jeroen

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Rebooting Apple TV 4k and 4

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/28

Every now and then, when an Apple TV falls asleep with an app running, it wakes up without the app showing actual content on HDMI.

I’ve seen this quite a lot with the NPOStart app, but other apps suffer from this as well.

It happens more often with an Apple TV 4k than with an Apple TV4.

When this happens, the TV thinks there is no HDMI device connected to that source any more.

The solution is to reboot the Apple TV without active screen output:

If the remote refuses to connect, then you have to pull the plug and reinsert it; either the power or HDMI plug will do.

Luckily this workaround I did not have to reboot my TV, as the only two ways to do that is to pull/reinsert the power plug, or to perform a [WayBack] How do I perform a Factory Data Reset on my Smart TV? | Samsung Support Australia.

–jeroen

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Signal messaging downloads

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/23

I forgot about the announcement that Signal had also become available on the Desktop, but it is via [WayBack] https://signal.org/download/:

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Debian based x64 Linux:

$ curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -
$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop

I like the mix of echo and tee to update the [WayBack] /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder with the signal-xenial.list file.

These links will always give you the latest download filename:

The files you get there will be relative to the path https://updates.signal.org/desktop/ so will be similar to:

You can get the sources at https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/releases

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Android Devices, Apple, Debian, iMac, iOS, iPhone, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Chris Bensen: Sync a Shared Google Calendar with Calendar in iOS or macOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/06

[WayBack] Chris Bensen: Sync a Shared Google Calendar with Calendar in iOS or macOS

Cool: configure a shared Google Calendar to show up in the Calendar in iOS or macOS

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect

–jeroen

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