Have used DuckDG for years and never knowingly been served bad or inferior results.

Besides, I’d far rather trade some supposedly better search results to have security I can really be confident about.

John Prescott

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Hi Lynda

I’m not familiar with Brave so can’t comment, but can tell you that Duck Duck Go is nothing to do with Google, and doesn’t behave like Google – It doesn’t harvest information and the developers are passionate about online security – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

Mike

David Pogue describes how he drove Apple nuts 🤣:

https://youtube.com/shorts/pFihjYph2oE?si=-MknQ83qrrGqJX36

Mike

So if I use Brave, I”m using Brave search engine, right? Is Start Page a search engine? I use Quant on my phone. How do I know if I get good results or not. I will NOT use Google. Formerly used Duck, Duck…but isn’t that just Google by another name?

Same here! Some argue that you don’t see the same range of results – some would argue that’s a good thing 🤣

Mike

Adam’s slide deck:

[not a question, but from experience]

Password managers should be mandatory for anyone who logs into more than one web site to keep us lazy folks from reusing passwords. Reuse means that a broken site can supply access to any other site using the same password. Watchtower is good about warning you.

The 1Password 7 to 8 transition was…

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I’ve been using Duck Duck Go for the last year or so in Safari (the only browser that I use), and I don’t miss Google.

Another wonderfully informative presentation by Adam on a topic that we all need to keep up with!!! I’ll stick with 1Password for a while longer – going on 20 years.

Meeting, Wednesday 05/20/2026 – 1Password versus Passwords: Should You Switch? with Adam Engst. If you have questions or comments following this meeting, please use this thread,
Thank you,
Mike

Dear Naples Mac User Group —

I can’t believe I missed the opportunity to present to your group and wasted all of your collective time. I had a 1-week reminder, a 2-day reminder, and a 2-hour reminder. I practiced my talk. I put a Post-it note on my desk to remind me of some prep files I needed to have ready. I have a whiteboard on my desk where I…

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My wife and I have been using it via the Duo plan for two and a half years now, and we’d never revert to using Google as the default. We find the search results excellent, and we were tired of wading through the paid promotional results when using Google. Kagi is actually not difficult to install, and trouble free once you’ve done it, runs…

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Hi Ronald,

For members-only benefit and security reasons for some videos, downloading of videos is not permitted.

Is it possible to download a weekly meeting video onto a Mac for later offline viewing?

I just asked Claude for advice on replacing Skitch with a modern screenshot app. I was surprised by the very personal response:

https://claude.ai/share/43d96bf0-063a-4dec-b643-2cf613973617

I welcome comments on Claude’s AI and your experience with taking and annotating screenshots.

Damned if I know why the setting doesn’t “stick” with my MacBook Air.

First of all – apologies – I misunderstood a post from our great friend, Christian Boyce. He’s looking for members who own their own website, with a view to tour members’ sites at a forthcoming meeting, and give us all the opportunity to see what our friends are up to – It may be art, it may be photography, it may be industrial, it may be…

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I’ve been using it for a couple of months and am happy with it.

Thank you

Hi,

I’ve started having trouble getting two-factor authentification codes recently, but not always. I usually am working on my laptop and request the code to be sent to my cell phone number; then I open Messages on my laptop so I can copy the received code to paste into the website sign-in.

I started having trouble with the text message…

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Raycast 2.0 (Beta) is now publicly available for anyone to download and try — this does require macOS 26 Tahoe.

In the new version, File and Contacts are accessed in the root search… More info here: https://www.raycast.com/new

Hi Mark

We weren’t aware of this issue, so thank you for raising it – I have passed your post to Dan and hopefully he will look in to it 🙂

Mike

I noticed that at the MMUG website the Apple News has not been updated since May 11th. Is there a problem with the website or is just no news coming in from the sources? Also dose this explain why I am not receiving the daily news update emails?

I know that Bart Busschots is a Kagi user and pleased with the experience. You can “kick its tyres” for free (100 searches).

I’ve yet to try it — I am happy, running uBlock on Firefox.

You did very well, learned a lot

Has anyone tried Kagi, a search engine you have to pay ($5.00 per month) a bit for, but you can escape the annoyance of ads, without having to manage an AD-blocker?

John Gruber gives it a glowing review on Daring Fireball. Installation seems a bit complex, so I wondered if it is worth the trouble. …

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Thanks for Pinch Hitting, Ferrers

George Rubin

Sorry for the lack of prep…

The professional introduction to Raycast by Pedro from Raycast Technologies is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRBCx3W4QOA

Raycast is available here: https://www.raycast.com/

Meeting, Wednesday 05/13/2026 – Raycast with Ferrers Young. If you have questions or comments following this meeting, please use this thread,
Thank you,
Mike

Thought I’d give the Apple battery 80% limit setting a try on my M3 MacBook Air in preference to using Al Dente Pro (Setapp). Nope. Totally useless. Battery had got to 56% charged, incoming charge wattage was barely 5 W. This was regardless of whether I used the standard 70W charger or a 65W GaN charger. Optimise battery is turned off. I noticed…

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Not wanting to leave my warm bed at 11am, I decided to run Clean My Mac on the MacBook Neo which is currently on the desk beside the Mac Mini in the home office via screen sharing from my MacBook Air. I got about halfway through the process when the connection glitched and refused to resume.

So I shared the Mac Mini’s screen and then used that…

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Update time again. I have four Macs to update to macOS 26.5; two iPads needing iPadOS 26.5; an iPhone already on iOS 26.5; Apple Watch needing watchOS 26.5; two Apple TV 4k units needing tvOS 26.5 and five HomePods getting audioOS 26.5.

Rather than the incremental update of macOS via Software Update I’m downloading the InstallAssistant.pkg…

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Perhaps then, the just-released iOS 26.5 update could be applied?