fastasleep

Quasar209 said:

I’m in the exact same boat basically apple support and I shared my iPHone camera so she could help assistant me reinstall a os on my 2020 MacBook Air after days of trying she had me try dfu mode which bricked it completely she was nice enough to get me fully covered and get it fixed for free with no apple care plus they even fixed the screen and touchpad and speakers basically hooked me up for the trouble of loosing everything after the weekend of her begging for a credit and to help me for free she calls Monday morning and says all the great news sends me a box the next day by Wednesday it was at apple and fixed and shipped the same day due to be back Thursday morning except it was never delivered says that it was and that I signed for it as well I pull up the camera feeds watch it with apple who was hard af to find a guy that contacts fedex and starts the case a week later he calls back says yup driver never got a signature and has no proof he went to my town at all so now we’re giving you the new m1 upgrade for all the hassle I’ll call you in a week to give the tracking to you he calls in a week no tracking he said he’ll call by Wednesday ccalls again says he don’t know why they haven’t shipped I’ll call back Saturday cept no call back this time another week goes by no call now I can’t find anything about my case at all it’s gone 

nicholfd said:

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.

• Use mail merge to quickly create personalized letters, cards, and envelopes for multiple recipients

crowley said:

fastasleep said:

darkvader said:

fastasleep said:

darkvader said:

I'm fine with bezels on my computer.  I don't really care how big they are.  They can be huge, tiny, or nonexistent.

But that stupid notch has to go.  It's a no-brainer to give up screen real estate to get rid of it, because screen with a notch in the middle of it is useless anyway.  It was an incredibly stupid move by Apple.

I'd rather give up the camera entirely.  Most users tape over it anyway, so it's not like anybody is actually giving up anything of value.  If you need a camera, there are plenty of external cameras on the market.

“Useless” 
“most users”
LOL

The. Stupid. Notch. Blocks. The. Menu. Bar.

How is that anything but useless?  There are ways to move the menu bar down and turn the 'screen' space beside the notch into a bezel, but that's less than ideal.  Sure, it's better than the notch, but it wastes more screen real estate than putting the camera in a proper bezel would.

Do you actually have one? It hasn't once been an issue for me, and I've had my M1 Max MBP since just after launch. Not a single time have I  thought it was in the way. And, if you do choose to put it below the notch (I haven't with any apps yet), it takes up the exact same amount of space had they omitted the notch and extra screen real estate altogether. There are apps to completely disable the extra screen area and make it black — essentially putting the camera in a bezel — if that's what you prefer, so it's really not an issue. Useless, it is not — it's a design compromise with more benefits than not having it.

Bang on.

I don’t even notice the notch. It’s a total non-issue. 

darkvader said:

fastasleep said:

darkvader said:

I'm fine with bezels on my computer.  I don't really care how big they are.  They can be huge, tiny, or nonexistent.

But that stupid notch has to go.  It's a no-brainer to give up screen real estate to get rid of it, because screen with a notch in the middle of it is useless anyway.  It was an incredibly stupid move by Apple.

I'd rather give up the camera entirely.  Most users tape over it anyway, so it's not like anybody is actually giving up anything of value.  If you need a camera, there are plenty of external cameras on the market.

“Useless” 
“most users”
LOL

The. Stupid. Notch. Blocks. The. Menu. Bar.

How is that anything but useless?  There are ways to move the menu bar down and turn the 'screen' space beside the notch into a bezel, but that's less than ideal.  Sure, it's better than the notch, but it wastes more screen real estate than putting the camera in a proper bezel would.