nicholfd

Does the hardware or software require an online account (like all other Withings products)?  

If so, hell no.  

My health data is none of their business.

Appleinsider should research & detail this requirement for ANY product they review.

slow n easy said:

mike1 said:

Afganblues said:

I’m sure he would be livid over this HomePod, iPhone, watch Siri differentiation issue. What really sucks that if I’m in a room with my  HomePod, phone and watch that I do not know where Siri will come from, especially when it’s a personal request and the HomePod responds with I can’t do that. Steve Jobs is probably rolling over in his grave

With my wife and I each having iPhones, iPads and my Watch, as well as a house full of HomePods, I found the most reliable solution was to disable Hey Siri on all the devices except the HomePods. For my needs, there is no benefit to having the phones or Watch respond to Hey Siri. If I am not at home, the phone is within arm's reach and the Watch is on my wrist, so I can easily push the buttons to engage Siri when needed.

Maybe I’ll try that idea, but I still wish that Apple could figure out a way for the different devices to somehow communicate with each other and delegate the task to just one device that is closest to the command issuer. I’m guessing that ability will be forthcoming with the advancement of AI.

This is a home infrastructure issue (WiFi).

We have 13 home pods.  My wife & I each have an iPhone, Apple Watch & iPad.  Always only one device answers.  Unless the iPhone or iPad are unlocked and in use, a home pod answers.  If you are actively using an iPhone or iPad, they will take priority and only one will answer.  This works by all the devices talking on the same reliable WiFi network. Multiple devices hear the "Hey Siri!, and they decide which will answer & inform the others to not answer.

You need to troubleshoot your home infrastructure.  This is a problem that Apple solved from the beginning.

InspiredCode said:

Strangely it is launch day for the new HomePod and my original HomePods have suddenly started working fine again today. They were giving errors similar to "Sorry I cannot complete your request at this time. Try again later." 50% of the time for at least a month. I've been trying all day to get Siri to misbehave and she has been good. Crossing my fingers it sticks. 

Apple, if you are listening... bring realtime audio playback like the Apple TV has to the Mac and I'll buy another pair of HomePod 2nd editions immediately.

Been there for a year or two:

tht said:

mpantone said:

tht said:

It's amazing how keyboards can have so many keys, yet have these weird imperfections. There isn't one perfect keyboard, or mouse for that matter.

Some of the keys on the Mx Mechanical mini for Mac keyboard don't look to be standard width and are less wide. If it is for Mac, why are the functions in the function key row different from a Mac laptop keyboard? There's always something.

This is a 65% keyboard. The normal keys are all regular sized keycaps. The lens on the camera might be making things look different but all the central keys are the same dimension.

The other keys (tab, caps lock, shift, control, command, option) have to be adjusted for the constraints of the 65% layout which is one key wider than the main layout.

It's a standard 75% keyboard layout. It's probably an optical illusion that the right side cmd, fn and opt keys, the esc and tilde keys appear less wide than they should be. Then, Logitech did not put the sound volume controls in F10-F12. What the F1-F3 keys are, I don't know. They all have the same icon.

It's a mechanical keyboard with replaceable keycaps. So, if the keys don't look the right size, they did something wrong as buyers typical want the option to have replaceable key caps on this sort of keyboard. But it looks like an optical illusion, so that's good that it really is "standard".


Basically the same layout, with different treatments for the top row of keys.

For years, most Logitech bluetooth keyboards will pair with up to three devices.  The F1-F3 are for switching between which device you want to use the keyboard with.  Also, you can usually change the function keys to be function keys by default vs. the "media" keys by default.

fastasleep said:

nicholfd said:

spheric said:

Mail merge!? 

It took them A DECADE to reinstate this? 

It used to be that you could just drag a contact group directly from Address Book and drop it into an address field in any Pages or Numbers document, and - presto! - it would auto-generate a mailing to all of those recipients, including the proper salutation. 

No, I'm not imagining this — they removed the feature (along with super easy trackpad-based resize and rotate) back when they feature-synced iOS and Mac versions of iWork. 

So cool that they finally re-implement this essential functionality, years after it has almost entirely ceased to be useful, as paper mailing lists have long died for anything except weddings and funerals… 

You must not realize that mail merge is also used for e-mail, not just paper mail...

I haven't used it for paper mail in ages.  I do use it periodically for e-mail.

Why would you be mailing personalized documents generated in Pages via email? Can Pages send emails? I'm confused. 

The discussion was about mail merge.  Mail does not mean paper.  Not seeing it yet, I assume the "new" mail merge functionality of Pages includes the ability to use it for e-mail, not just printed, paper mail.

In a business settings, I have various (random, depending on the purpose) groups of employees that need information, or I need information from.  I do an export/extract of the employees e-mail address, first name, last name, etc.  I can then use mail merge to send "personalized" e-mails to all the individual employees.

Note I didn't mention Pages in my original reply.  My reply was about the usefulness of mail merge & use with e-mail.  I use this periodically with Word, in the Windows environment.  I would also find this useful on my personal Macs, for family, groups, etc.  I assume the Pages "new" merge feature will also support e-mail, with mail merge.