The week of Thanksgiving, 2023, our server suffered a catastrophic reset. Though we maintain backups of everything, restoring our various blogs and websites will take…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Author: C. S. Wyatt, MFA/Ph.D.
We’re a loyal Apple household with iPads, iPhones, an Apple Watch, and several computers. That loyalty developed over the years as our devices outlasted those…
Managing typefaces on computers has always been difficult. This month, support for the font management tool I have used for many years, FontExplorer X, was…
May 12, 2023, marks the end of our 2022-23 academic year for our third-grader. The fifth-grader has only a few assignments remaining, too. We made…
The public school experiment for 2022-23 ran its course by January 26, 2023, when we gave the fifth grader a mental health day at home.…
Apple Notes is my primary writing application. I write more words in Notes than in any other app. I appreciate unadorned, straightforward writing experiences. If…
Educators in elementary and secondary schools need to communicate with parents with clarity and consistency. Communication can be as simple as sending completed assignments home…
Homeschooling Anne goes from 8:30 a.m. in the morning right up through bedtime, with breaks for lunch, snack, and dinner. Since I wake up at…
Susan’s 27-inch iMac died. Our Synology network-attached storage (NAS) server died. The Tameri hosting service experienced a major “glitch” that blocked FTP access. Susan’s iPhone…
The back-to-school experiment lasted four days for the little one. By Thursday of the first week, it was clear that this wasn’t a good experience…