Adam Engst:
Anyway, if you see SOS or SOS Only in your iPhone’s status bar when it should be working normally, there are two likely possibilities:
- Your carrier has no accessible service, but another carrier’s cell towers would still enable you to place an emergency call.
- There could be something amiss with your iPhone or account such that the carrier doesn’t recognize your iPhone as having service.
In the first situation, there’s nothing to be done, but if you suspect the second, Apple suggests possible fixes.
Carrier iOS iOS 16 Phone.app
Chris Hynes:
It turns out that Eudora and Netscape were the only major clients that used mbox format, BUT they had their own variations[…]
[…]
And speaking of reverse engineering, there were two very popular clients that didn’t use the mbox file format at all: Microsoft Outlook and Claris Emailer. Even though we had the source code for Claris Emailer, it was still quite a daunting task, with only a few weeks to complete it.
[…]
From the outside, it can sometimes feel like Apple is a chaotic mess. How could they have two importers that overlap each other? And the built-in one they are telling you not to use. Go download these Applescripts instead. It’s laughable to look back on that now.
Apple Mail AppleScript Claris Emailer E-mail Eudora History Mac Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah Microsoft Outlook Netscape
Daryl Worthington (via Nick Heer):
On 1 October, 1982, the first album to be released on CD, Billy Joel’s 52nd Street went on sale in Japan, Sony’s CDP-101 CD player hitting the shelves on the same day. Early the following year, they hit Europe and North America as record labels made bigger selections of music available on the format.
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“The hi-fi world has become something of a graveyard for bright ideas that came to nothing,” the presenter says, listing quadraphonic records, eight tracks and L-cassettes as music fads that went nowhere. John Atkinson, editor of Hi-Fi News counters that the CD represents “real” change.
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If CDs marked a new era, it is perhaps as much in the way they suggest specific ways of interacting with recorded music as in questions of fidelity. As the Towards 2000 coverage noted: “You can select your own sequence in advance, so you can play [the tracks] in any order you want.” The fact CDs can be programmed, and tracks easily skipped, is perhaps their most significant feature when it comes to their legacy. They loosened up the album as a fixed document. You could more seamlessly put one track on constant repeat, skip the interludes you didn’t like, or imagine a hypothetical ‘better order’ for your favourite album.
Steve Knopper (via Hacker News):
Here’s an oral history of the introduction of the CD[…]
Anniversary CD History Music
