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Apple Photos – How to view all unnamed faces – Solved

I finally discovered the secret for creating a smart album that only shows photos that do NOT have people or pets identified in Apple Photos on MacOS.12

  1. Create a smart album with the criteria “person/pet” -> “does not contain” -> =”A” (It will suggest a name from the database to place here but just change it manually.)
  2. Repeat creating rules using the same criteria but with the all the other vowels.
  3. Next create a rule for “person/pet” -> “is” -> “<blank>”. By blank I mean remove all characters from the textfield. This should filter out all of the photos without a face.
  4. Lastly create a rule for “photo” -> “is not” -> “screenshots”.

Here is the smart album:

I also created one for unmarked GPS locations.

Screenshot of the smart album for showing images that have no location in Apple Photos.

  1. My source for this information comes via Apple Discussion Forums[↩]
  2. It doesn’t work if at least one of the other people in the photo are named but it’s a pretty good start.[↩]
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Three Seconds Everyday 2024

2024 is the 11th year I’ve created a once a day video project. Lots of travel this year, lots of kids, and lots of fun. It’s a pretty good glimpse at the everyday routine of our lives.

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Top 10 Posts of 2024

Here’s a quick table of my most view posts in 20241

Post Views
Stairway to Heaven Backwards Full Lyrics 8,139
Secret Hitler – Print and Play 5,616
Home page / Archives 4,147
Laughing Wild — by Christopher Durang 1,833
Laughing Wild — by Christopher Durang 578
The Face of Dr. Claw Revealed! 427
Tab Cola Commercial 269
Edmonton Spelling Test on Google Forms 266
Backmasking Info 247
More Backmasking Songs 234
  1. Previous year-end stats for 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020[↩]
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The Vanity Fair Interview with Billie Eilish, Year Eight

Every year since 2017, Vanity Fair has interviewed Billie Eilish about her life and career. They didnt release last year’s conversation but they are back this year with the eighth iteration.

It’s amazing that Vanity Fair picked Eilish for this project when they could have picked any number of up-and-coming stars from 2017. They got lucky picking not only the one who went supernova winning multiple grammies and maintaining popularity but who is also self-reflective, eloquent, and willing to talk about her emotions.

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The Bad Review Revue

Mufasa: The Lion King: “Be prepared for a disappointing prequel.” — Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim: “[Peter Jackson] proves here that if you scrape hard enough at the bottom of any barrel you will eventually damage the integrity of the entire barrel.” — Kevin Mahar, Times (UK).

Nightbitch: “[W]himpers slowly into the night, a fangless could-have-been.” — Tom Meek, Cambridge Day

Venom: The Last Dance: “The third and final episode in the Venom saga issues a third and final reminder that the world never really needed a Venom saga in the first place.” — Leigh Paatsch, Herald Sun (Australia)

Red One: “If this is what Red One is, don’t expect a Red Two.” — Matt Neal, ABC Radio (Australia)

Joker: Folie à Deux: “How dark and depressing is this movie? Let’s put it this way: If ‘Seven’ had musical numbers, it might get to where ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ has set up shop.” — Sean P. Means, The Movie Cricket

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Becoming Led Zeppelin

The long awaited authorized documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin has finally released the first trailer:

From Angie Maroccio at Rolling Stone Magazine:

The film was first announced five years ago, then premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. That same year, an early clip of “Good Times Bad Times” was released. In May 2024, the “hybrid docu-concert film” was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics.

Making the film was challenging for MacMahon and writer-producer Allison McGourty, as hardly any footage from the band’s early years existed. Through their research, they were able to include unseen concert footage, including their early performances at the Fillmore West in January 1969 and the Texas Pop Festival in August 1969.

“We spent five years flying back and forth across the Atlantic scouring attics and basements in pursuit of rare and unseen film footage, photographs, and music recordings,” McGourty said in a statement. “Then we transferred each piece of media with custom techniques, so that in IMAX, these 55-year-old clips and music would look and sound like they came out of the lab yesterday.”

Becoming Led Zeppelin will be released on February 7th, 2025 in 200 IMAX theatres.

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Santa is Just a Normal Guy

Santa Claus holding a bottle of Coca-Cola

My five-year-old came to me the other day with what sounded like breaking news.

“Santa is just a normal guy!” he exclaimed.

Frowning, I looked at him. I nodded and began wondering if I should have played up the jolly elf a little more.

“He’s just a normal guy who doesn’t even make the presents.”

Sadly, the Christmas magic is gone before it really even started. My thoughts wandered. Obviously the brand names and packaging are a dead giveaway. Good on him for figuring it out at five but he’s too young to be so cynical…

“He’s just a normal guy who doesn’t even make the presents — he just gets the elves to do all the work!”

Nevermind. The magic is alive and well.

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Apple Earnings Results Q4 2024

On Thursday Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2024.

From Apple Newsroom:

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2024. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64, up 12 percent year over year when excluding the one-time charge recognized during the fourth quarter of 2024 related to the impact of the reversal of the European General Court’s State Aid decision.

Apple noted that it’s overall revenue was cut into deeply by the $10.1 billion fine related to Apple finally having lost a long-time tax case in the European Union.

See also Jason Snell’s charts.

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