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iOS Resolution // Display properties of every iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple Watch Apple ever made

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/12

I wanted to use my old 9.7 inch iPad Pro 1st generation (yes – really old) as an Apple Sidecar external screen (iPad confusingly names this Continuity, but that OS X Yosemite feature does not fully support Sidecar), so needed the resolution to get a rough idea on what kind of settings would get the lease pixel scaling.

This was useful, but lacks the Apple model numbers: [Wayback/Archive] iOS Resolution // Display properties of every iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple Watch Apple ever made

It meant I had to:

  1. get my iPad model number (iPad -> Settings -> About -> Model Number -> click on the “MLMN2NF/A” -> “A1673”)
  2. map the model number to a model name via [Wayback/Archive] Identify your iPad model – Apple Support: A1673 on the iPad Pro -> iPad Pro (9.7-inch)
  3. find the native resolution: iPad Pro (9.7-inch) -> [Wayback/Archive] iOS Resolution // iPad Pro (1st gen 9.7”)

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Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, iOS, iPad, M1 Mac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook-Pro, macOS 10.14 Mojave., macOS 10.15 Catalina, macOS 11 Big Sur, macOS 12 Monterey, macOS 13 Ventura, macOS 14 Sonoma, macOS 15 Sequoia, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Some links on docking devices that can output TOSLINK from a classic iPod

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/12

I wanted to connect my iPod Classic: 3rd Generation via TOSLINK to my amplifier (or alternatively via line-out).

Docks I found (most of the links only work from their archived versions):

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Posted in Apple, Hardware, Home Audio/Video, iPod, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Stop Using Encrypted Email | Latacora

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/09

A very interesting 2020 read that will remain valid eternally: [Wayback/Archive] Stop Using Encrypted Email | Latacora

It lists reasons that an encrypted email will one day leak either enough of the content or enough of the meta-data to become problematic:

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RS232 Serial Wifi Modem for Vintage Computers V4 from The Old Net on Tindie

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/09

RS232 Serial Wifi Modem for Vintage Computers V4[Wayback/Archive] RS232 Serial Wifi Modem for Vintage Computers V4 from The Old Net on Tindie

Get your vintage computer connected to BBS’s and more! It can act as a Modem, PPP ISP or a SLIP Ethernet adapter!

Video: [Wayback/Archive] Wireless MS-DOS Networking using a Serial Port and an ESP8266! – YouTube

Via [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “RS232 Serial Wifi Modem for Vintage Computers V4 from The Old Net on Tindie”

In the mean time, more videos on it have appeared, for instance from [Wayback/Archive] Action Retro – YouTube:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Easy WiFi for Vintage Macs with TheOldNet Serial WiFi Modem – YouTube (Action Retro seems to have a zip-tie fetish; I’d prefer Velcro which is actually a 1940s Swiss invention, contrary to the 1960s NASA invention many still think it is)
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Best Option for Apple ][ Modern Networking? – YouTube

Of these last two videos, the first also linked to this picture of converter tables, including 9-pin D-sub RS-232 to mini-DIN-8 apple serial (which could be switched between RS-232 and RS-422 mode): [Wayback/Archive] upload_4705.png (880×1874). It is referenced only from a few places:

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Memories of Google Reader; how do we now find our ways in the plethora of information sources?

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/08

Some three years back, The Verge published these two on the same day:

I wonder what has changed by now and how we survived in the overload of information sources.

Google Reader, which basically got killed because Google took all it’s developers and put them on the Google Plus team, is the reason I started using Feedly and never stopped.

What is your main view through which you consume on-line information?

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Feedly, G+: GooglePlus, GoogleReader, RSS, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

🇺🇦 Anna Filina: “- How to close SendGrid account? – Contact support. 1 out of 31 found this helpful; LOL, deserved ratio.…” – PHP Community on Mastodon

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/07

[Wayback/Archive] 🇺🇦 Anna Filina: “- How to close SendGrid accoun…” – PHP Community on Mastodon

– How to close SendGrid account?
– Contact support.
1 out of 31 found this helpful
LOL, deserved ratio.

The thread continues with how bad SendGrid support is. Good reason to not use SendGrid at all.

--jeroen

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macmade/Hot: Hot is macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/06

I started experimenting with [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – DanielStormApps/Fanny: Monitor your Mac’s fan speed and CPU/GPU temperature from your Notification Center. · GitHub and [Wayback/Archive] Fanny Widget for macOS.

For homebrew users (aren’t all MacOS users using this great package manager)

brew install --cask fanny

[Wayback/Archive] fanny — Homebrew Formulae

Soon I found out this does not work for M1 MacBook machines (no matter if it is regular, Air, or Pro): no temperatures are read and fan speeds fluctuate heavily. I’m not alone in this, M1 support is not there and won’t be there – there have not been any updates to the repository since 20200502 and issues like these are still open:

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Padlock coin holders for lockpicking challenges (CTF) by ThiceNL – Thingiverse

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/06

[Wayback/Archive] Padlock coin holders for lockpicking challenges (CTF) by ThiceNL – Thingiverse

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Going to try: DaisyDisk | Home – Find out what’s taking up your disk space and recover it in the most efficient and easy way.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/05

On my list of things to try on MacOS: [Wayback/Archive] DaisyDisk | Home

Find out what’s taking up your disk space and recover it in the most efficient and easy way.

At USD ~10 for use on 5 Apple MacOS machines, it is dead cheap especially since it can also scan cloud storage for some vendors.

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] anna on X: “Cool, I’ve just freed up 21.4 GB on my disk. Thanks to @DaisyDisk …”

--jeroen

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Man Pages | ManKier (converted to HTML5 from troff or mdoc); TLDR pages for many command-line examples

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/05

This archive seems to have very recent HTML5 renderings of many man pages from their troff or mdoc sources: [Wayback/Archive] Man Pages | ManKier.

I bumped into it via [Archive/Archive] ipmitool: utility for controlling IPMI-enabled devices | ipmitool Commands | Man Pages | ManKier when writing Some links on Dell R730xd fan noise.

The site is not only very up-to-date on rendered man pages, but the rendering has great features too. Read more on those at [Wayback/Archive] About | ManKier.

A nice history on how ManKier came to be is at [Wayback/Archive] Blog – ManKier. It’s less than a dozen posts, and recommended reading.

Oh, I almost forget: I have added the man search shortcut to my browsers; these two examples should get you going by adding www.mankier.com/?q=%s as a search template:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Conference Topics, Conferences, Event, man/manual pages, mankier, Power User | Leave a Comment »

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