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Using Siri AI on macOS 27.01 fails repeatedly with "Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again." unless I turn off AdGuard DNS projection. Disabling protection doesn't work for me. I have to disable DNS Protection. Only then can Siri AI work with AdGuard running on macOS.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? I reported this to AdGuard support, but they shrugged it off and closed the case due to Siri AI still being in beta.

Within Glaze, is it possible to link outside the Glaze App Store to an external app website or Apple Store page as a starting point and simply say "create an app like this with the following changes and added features"?

BTW, before anyone accuses me planning to poach income from hard-working developers, let me clarify:

(1) I'm a huge fan of developers and have gladly paid hundreds of dollars for promising apps, some of which I only ended up using for a short time but never asked for a refund (unless it was really bad or not as advertised).

(2) I have no plans to sell apps. I'm not even sure that's possible with Glaze apps, but if anything I would upload them to the Glaze Store for others to use for free.

(3) An app I have in mind to clone initially is one I paid for and have asked the dev multiple times for a couple of features important to me. It's been more than two years now with no response. There doesn't seem to be any interest in improving or supporting the app.

Recently, I finally had a chance to try LocalSend with my iPhone Air and a Windows 11 laptop on the same Wi-Fi network. Sadly, neither instance could see the other. I checked the firewall on the laptop and temporarily disabled AdGuard on my iPhone, but no luck before I ran out of time to troubleshoot and had to leave. Any idea of the most likely reason(s) I struck out?

Once we enable viewing Apple Calendar Events in Craft, under "Show Calendar Events" it says: "Enabling this setting allows you to connect your calendar events with notes in Craft".

I now understand this only applies to linking calendar notes and tasks and not to events. I've already tried creating calendar notes and tasks and saving their internal Craft link to into a document. That works very well.

However, what if you just want to link to the name, date and time of an event and not to any notes or to-do items? In that case, linking directly to the calendar event would be more useful. The resulting card or link block would display the name, date, and time of the event and automatically update if any of those elements are changed.

For example: creating a healthcare dashboard. It would include a section with links, not only to tasks or notes associated with a given day, but to important calendar dates for events such as checkups.

Obviously we can switch back and forth between such a document and the calendar, but it would be a shame to not use link capability to surface the actual event dates and times. This could greatly reduce the amount of context switching inside Craft.

I'm just getting started using these features, so please let me know if I'm missing something obvious. In that case, I could change this post flair from a feature request to General or Help.

Edit: Minor edits for clarity/readability.

Yesterday, many if not most of us were skeptical of the legitimacy of a post claiming to be from a member of the Microsoft Outlook team taking initiative to find out what we hate and love about Outlook. Since it did indeed turn out to be just a cruel prank and was removed, I decided to resubmit my comment as a post.

Although I've submitted feedback on Microsoft sites numerous times, I can imagine official feedback platforms may be clogged with tens of thousands of submissions, a high percentage of which may contain little to no constructive detail. So, I took the time to write a few things down and send them off into the Reddit void:

Things I Hate About Outlook

1. Support for setting a default send-as alias is frustratingly inconsistent across platforms. In Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the Web, we can set it. Unfortunately, Outlook for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS have no visible support for this, and they do not sync or respect this Outlook.com or Windows setting. This is important because many of us disabled our main email alias for login due to it being siphoned into so many spam lists and leaked in so many breaches over the years. Your new Microsoft account alias is then used only for login. This automatically becomes your primary and default send-as alias as soon as you disable the breached address for login. To keep this new login-only alias private, you have to change your default send-as alias to the public-facing email address. Sadly, with Outlook, you have to remain constantly hyper-vigilant to avoid accidentally sending emails from the new private log-in-only alias. It can easily happen simply by switching between different Outlook clients during a hectic period and forgetting that, in some clients, you have to manually change the send-as alias every single time before you send the email!
2. Copilot behaves like a gnat constantly flying in your face. It inserts itself on every line when you're trying to type, and constantly hovers around with suggested actions whether you want it or not. It displays the same prompts over and over and over—like an eternal onboarding experience. This is annoyingly aggressive behavior. I believe it's a primary factor in driving many people to disable Copilot altogether. It's like management is desperate to impress Satya Nadella at the expense of UX.
3. Connecting Outlook to MS OneNote or MS To-Do has always been very buggy/unstable, regardless of which Outlook client you use. I reported the error messages years ago. Is it fixed now? I don't know because I gave up trying after years of frustration.

Other Outlook Annoyances

1. The PWA version of Outlook can be used on macOS as a workaround for the above issue. Unfortunately, this comes with other sacrifices, such is links always opening in Edge instead of my default browser (usually Arc on macOS).
2. Outlook lacks a way to identify VIP senders where you can enable alerts, badges and take other actions to highlight only important senders. Apple Mail has this capability.
3. I modified gestures in mobile Outlook to swipe left for archive and swipe right for trash. Unfortunately, the Junk folder conforms to the opposite gesture convention and provides no way of changing that.

Things I Love About Outlook

1. The ability to force HTML content to dark mode at night when the system and apps are running in dark mode (across all platforms). Many clients, like Apple Mail, can only change the email background to dark and the text to white, but imbedded web-based content can remain blindingly white.
2. Outlook allows marking senders as trusted indicating it's safe to automatically load images and other non-text elements while all other sender emails remain safely quarantined and require manual approval to view non-text email content. Other email clients, like Apple Mail, require an all or nothing approach where any sender's content gets through (not safe) or you have to manually allow loading the non-text content over and over and over again since there's no way to identify safe senders. Another feature where Outlook is clearly superior.
3. I appreciate the ability to report phishing email (not just typical junk senders). Some modern phishing scams are extremely convincing. Friends sometimes call me to check emails for them. I consider it a service to users everywhere to identify these scammers and hopefully reduce the number of people getting robbed of their hard earned money.

Note: As you may be able to discern, this is from a MS 365 Personal/Family user which is certainly very different from the enterprise experience where many essential features have apparently not been ported to New Outlook yet (if they ever will be).

P.S. Reddit prompted me to cross-post in this subreddit. Apologies if you've already seen it in r/Outlook

Yesterday, many if not most of us were skeptical of the legitimacy of a post claiming to be from a member of the Microsoft Outlook team taking initiative to find out what we hate and love about Outlook. Since it did indeed turn out to be just a cruel prank and was removed, I decided to resubmit my comment as a post.

Although I've submitted feedback on Microsoft sites numerous times, I can imagine official feedback platforms may be clogged with tens of thousands of submissions, a high percentage of which may contain little to no constructive detail. So, I took the time to write a few things down and send them off into the Reddit void:

Things I Hate About Outlook

1. Support for setting a default send-as alias is frustratingly inconsistent across platforms. In Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the Web, we can set it. Unfortunately, Outlook for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS have no visible support for this, and they do not sync or respect this Outlook.com or Windows setting. This is important because many of us disabled our main email alias for login due to it being siphoned into so many spam lists and leaked in so many breaches over the years. Your new Microsoft account alias is then used only for login. This automatically becomes your primary and default send-as alias as soon as you disable the breached address for login. To keep this new login-only alias private, you have to change your default send-as alias to the public-facing email address. Sadly, with Outlook, you have to remain constantly hyper-vigilant to avoid accidentally sending emails from the new private log-in-only alias. It can easily happen simply by switching between different Outlook clients during a hectic period and forgetting that, in some clients, you have to manually change the send-as alias every single time before you send the email!
2. Copilot behaves like a gnat constantly flying in your face. It inserts itself on every line when you're trying to type, and constantly hovers around with suggested actions whether you want it or not. It displays the same prompts over and over and over—like an eternal onboarding experience. This is annoyingly aggressive behavior. I believe it's a primary factor in driving many people to disable Copilot altogether. It's like management is desperate to impress Satya Nadella at the expense of UX.
3. Connecting Outlook to MS OneNote or MS To-Do has always been very buggy/unstable, regardless of which Outlook client you use. I reported the error messages years ago. Is it fixed now? I don't know because I gave up trying after years of frustration.

Other Outlook Annoyances

1. The PWA version of Outlook can be used on macOS as a workaround for the above issue. Unfortunately, this comes with other sacrifices, such is links always opening in Edge instead of my default browser (usually Arc on macOS).
2. Outlook lacks a way to identify VIP senders where you can enable alerts, badges and take other actions to highlight only important senders. Apple Mail has this capability.
3. I modified gestures in mobile Outlook to swipe left for archive and swipe right for trash. Unfortunately, the Junk folder conforms to the opposite gesture convention and provides no way of changing that.

Things I Love About Outlook

1. The ability to force HTML content to dark mode at night when the system and apps are running in dark mode (across all platforms). Many clients, like Apple Mail, can only change the email background to dark and the text to white, but imbedded web-based content can remain blindingly white.
2. Outlook allows marking senders as trusted indicating it's safe to automatically load images and other non-text elements while all other sender emails remain safely quarantined and require manual approval to view non-text email content. Other email clients, like Apple Mail, require an all or nothing approach where any sender's content gets through (not safe) or you have to manually allow loading the non-text content over and over and over again since there's no way to identify safe senders. Another feature where Outlook is clearly superior.
3. I appreciate the ability to report phishing email (not just typical junk senders). Some modern phishing scams are extremely convincing. Friends sometimes call me to check emails for them. I consider it a service to users everywhere to identify these scammers and hopefully reduce the number of people getting robbed of their hard earned money.

Note: As you may be able to discern, this is from a MS 365 Personal/Family user which is certainly very different from the enterprise experience where many essential features have apparently not been ported to New Outlook yet (if they ever will be).

With Apple's OS 27 release focusing on improving stability, performance, and quality of life issues based on user feedback, we have an opportunity to increase attention on some longstanding wishlist items in Apple Notes.

No question, Apple Notes is a well-designed, minimalist notes app that's deeply integrated into the ecosystem. But no notes app is perfect, and tables are one area in Notes that has been long neglected for whatever reason. I'd like to focus on just one shortcoming: The inability to manually resize cells to a preferred width and height.

Every Apple app I can think of that supports tables (Pages, Numbers, Keynote, even Freeform) also provides handles that pop up to allow manual resizing of a column width or row height—that is, every app except for Apple Notes. I don't know the reason, but from a user perspective, it feels like the Apple Notes team started working on tables, went out to lunch (years ago), and never came back.

The workarounds are absurd. For example, entering dozens of spaces will eventually force a column width to suddenly jump to some new arbitrary width that's often far too wide. Even if the new width is not technically arbitrary, it's not something we as users can control (as you can in other Apple apps).

The lack of attention to this functionality might be due to very few people submitting feedback. Back in 2023, I submitted a request in Apple's Feedback Assistant app. To this day, it has languished with Resolution: Open and Recent Similar Reports: None. I don't believe that, but more users filing submitting feedback could certainly help!