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macOS 10.14 Mojave was released on September 24. Status for my apps/command-line tools: Pester: Version 1.1b24 includes full Mojave support. Shroud: There is a race condition I am trying to isolate, and some bug fixes that should eventually warrant a release. Dark Mode support is implemented if you build from source. Hermes: I don t officially [ ]
These are just functionality/correctness bugs. If I covered UI bugs, I’d miss my flight home. macOS 10.13 High Sierra The installer nukes user accounts that have been around for years to replace them with new user accounts without warning (in this case, _assetcache replaced the intermapper user). Users (with 500 UIDs) can “disappear” until reboot; [ ]
In my last blog post, I pointed to a Nuance support article which indicated that there was no support for high-DPI displays in DMPE. This does remain the case in 2.3, as launching it out-of-the-box causes the text to be scaled and blurry, and icons/windows incorrectly placed relative to the insertion point. No useful workarounds [ ]
Dragon Medical Practice Edition (DMPE) 2.3 was released as a free update at the end of June — which I didn’t notice until last week, since I had the automatic updater disabled because it was so bad, and had assumed that there were going to be no further updates before another paid upgrade. The reality [ ]
This is turning into The Dash blog recently. Hopefully after my current 1-2 month crunch I ll be able to get back to posting about other things! In any case, The Dash firmware 2.0 (now “Bragi OS 2.0”), which I wrote about in my most recent post, is now released. Full release notes are here. The [ ]
Back in April, I noted “You can't initiate a disconnection or pairing from the right Dash once it's connected.” This is still technically true in the current firmware (1.5.1) — but I just discovered a convenient workaround, at least on iOS. Typically, I find this an issue when the Dash is connected to a device [ ]
Some editions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking (including Medical) support a Roaming User Profile feature. With this, you can store your voice profile on a server and download it to/upload it from computers on which you dictate. Like most aspects of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, it’s unnecessarily complex and flaky, but I got it to work in my distinctly [ ]
I have been successfully using The Dash on a regular basis for iOS heart rate monitoring since my post a few months ago. The Dash software 1.4 came out last week and fixes many of the issues I addressed, as well as some unrelated ones I didn't mention. So, here’s an update. 1.4 adds support [ ]
The Dash is a Kickstarter-backed (though having since raised many times its crowdfunding total) Bluetooth headset with no wires between the earpieces. Features include a heart rate monitor, accelerometers and built-in music player. It s waterproof and will eventually be programmable. Given my prior interest in Bluetooth headsets you might guess I was a backer, and [ ]
The first Unix machines I sat at on a daily basis were the SGI Indys in the Berry Patch. IRIX’s proportional system font was Adobe Helvetica Oblique, which was nice; but its monospaced font was unique and home-grown, simply called screen. Here are a couple of screenshots I took in that environment nearly 20 years ago. Screen remains the most [ ]