Still Striped
Oct. 7th, 2019 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerOver multiple updates of iOS, I’ve gathered the wallpaper designs get replaced after two or so versions, and as iOS 13 approached with its promises of the “Apple Arcade” I did get to wondering about the backgrounds introduced back with iOS 11 with rainbow stripes jumbled into the specific order of the old “six colour” Apple logo. I have found some sites that archive old wallpapers, and suppose it ought to be possible to store those images in Photos and use them for backdrops, but haven’t quite got around to trying that yet.
Dropping into a phone store, I was at least as interested in seeing if the iPhones there were running iOS 13 as if they were the new models, and on seeing their software had been updated I checked the “Wallpaper” section of “Settings” to realise the striped backdrops were still available. That made me a little more determined to upgrade my phone and iPad, although I’m still contemplating the Playstation controller I bought and whether it can be paired to both an Apple TV and an iPad for use with “Apple Arcade.”
Beyond that, there’s the little matter of upgrading my computer. I knew I wasn’t going to install macOS “Catalina” right away, but have been pondering its removal of support for 32-bit applications, and if I can work up the courage to restart from an external drive, erase the internal drive, and start fresh with all the old applications, and whatever they’ve stashed deep inside the “Library” folders, wiped clean. The problem is whether I can import my mailboxes, music library, and photos into their designated applications just by copying “manually” from a backup on an external drive.
However, as the “Catalina” update went live today I just happened to see an update in the Application Store I had got out of the habit of expecting. The “HyperDither” program I was exploring various alternatives to (to the point of paying for a GraphicConverter license) has been updated, and not just to “it’ll still open” but to offering multiple dithering algorithms and more picture-tweaking options than “more contrast” and “more sharpness.” Upgrading the operating system itself still ought to wait on a system revision or two, but at least one old concern has been taken care of.
Dropping into a phone store, I was at least as interested in seeing if the iPhones there were running iOS 13 as if they were the new models, and on seeing their software had been updated I checked the “Wallpaper” section of “Settings” to realise the striped backdrops were still available. That made me a little more determined to upgrade my phone and iPad, although I’m still contemplating the Playstation controller I bought and whether it can be paired to both an Apple TV and an iPad for use with “Apple Arcade.”
Beyond that, there’s the little matter of upgrading my computer. I knew I wasn’t going to install macOS “Catalina” right away, but have been pondering its removal of support for 32-bit applications, and if I can work up the courage to restart from an external drive, erase the internal drive, and start fresh with all the old applications, and whatever they’ve stashed deep inside the “Library” folders, wiped clean. The problem is whether I can import my mailboxes, music library, and photos into their designated applications just by copying “manually” from a backup on an external drive.
However, as the “Catalina” update went live today I just happened to see an update in the Application Store I had got out of the habit of expecting. The “HyperDither” program I was exploring various alternatives to (to the point of paying for a GraphicConverter license) has been updated, and not just to “it’ll still open” but to offering multiple dithering algorithms and more picture-tweaking options than “more contrast” and “more sharpness.” Upgrading the operating system itself still ought to wait on a system revision or two, but at least one old concern has been taken care of.