Dr. Simon Spence

Studying, writing & speaking about Apple for 25+ yrs. Consultant/teacher in Ireland. Kids book author. Doctorate in Greek myth/archaeology. Left X in Nov 2024

[Kieran @kieransofar]

Woah Apple, spoilers

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

Takes a while to scan your following list, and then another while to add all of your found people to your Bluesky list, but does the job nicely

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

Summary-
- add extension to Firefox
- pin to toolbar
- sign into Twitter
- go to “following” page
- click on Sky Follower Bridge extension & sign into Bluesky account
- it’ll scan all Twitter names to see who’s on Bluesky- not 100% accurate but good
- once done, use “import all”

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

How to move your Twitter “following” list over to Bluesky using Firefox, so you have similar personal timeline:

https://t.co/lghxrfBTq6

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

Takes a while to scan your following list, and then another while to add all of your found people to your Bluesky list, but does the job nicely

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

How to move your Twitter “following” list over to Bluesky using Firefox, so you have similar personal timeline:

https://t.co/lghxrfBTq6

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

Summary-
- add extension to Firefox
- pin to toolbar
- sign into Twitter
- go to “following” page
- click on Sky Follower Bridge extension & sign into Bluesky account
- it’ll scan all Twitter names to see who’s on Bluesky- not 100% accurate but good
- once done, use “import all”

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

Yeah, so where are your conspiracy theorists and freedom advocates now Republicans?! #gaetz

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson plans to object to the release of a damaging House report on the conduct of Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general. https://t.co/6oSuQ6oOoY

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Vaccines are the greatest biomedical innovation of all time:

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

Utter nonsense. I have a number of clients who don’t use iCloud and instead use Google for cloud service. Or some use their own email accounts for contacts, notes etc, and backup their phone directly to their Mac.

[BBC News Technology @BBCTech]

Apple accused of trapping and ripping off 40m iCloud customers https://t.co/olLi6xnBwk

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

@gavreilly And with the margin of error on that type of poll it means absolutely no change

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

The average WhatsApp group chat uses 2.35kg of CO2 a week.

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

Every poll we see needs to show the range - normally every figure is +/- 3%

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

My wish for the next election is that poll trackers look like the one on the right 👉 not the left

This was yet another election where the polling showed it could easily go either way, but most of the charts just showed two nice clean lines, one leading and one trailing. Bad!

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

@BBCBreaking That’s €11,345 per year. Crazy stuff. In Ireland it’s €3k.

[Dr. Simon Spence @macinfoirl]

@MacRumors Really can’t think of when I last used a power button on a Mac- my MBP is on or asleep. It restarts during software updates. The mini in the office has been running for the last 4-5 years continuously

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

REMINDER: throw out rotting pumpkins now that it's November

[MacRumors.com @MacRumors]

Hello. #macmini

[Early Myths Books @EarlyMyths]

We’re delighted to announce that our next Early Myths children’s book will be Orpheus!

The paperback and ebook will be released on November 15th.

Check out our current books on Amazon:
https://t.co/IZRcuUGdDc

Or on Apple Books:
https://t.co/ym3JdzYGUn

[9to5Mac @9to5mac]

Apple posts event video for new M4 iMac, confirms first of three Mac announcements this week https://t.co/Dpnug8XzmB by @bzamayo

[9to5Mac @9to5mac]

Apple unveils M4 iMac in new colors, nano-texture display option, more https://t.co/7jFvFs4Hgo by @ChanceHMiller