Saturday, November 21, 2020

Google's mysterious new blogging platform

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Google Blogger has been largely forgotten, but   over the past 1-2 years it's been receiving regular updates . Mostly these have been im...

Blogger will republish old posts with new dates but keep old URL

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So I learned something today about Google's ancient blogger platform. You can republish old content with new dates without breaking the ...

Updating macOS - the paranoid approach (updated from 2008)

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I wrote the first version of this on 9/13/2008. I was looking for it 11/21/2020 and decided to see if I could update it a bit in advance of ...

macOS Mojave Safe Mode can take hours, the progress bar is no help. Also - Disk Utility and APFS

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 TL;DR When you startup in Safe Mode On MacOS Mojave the progress bar goes to 100% in a few minutes. It then sites there for a long time --...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Things I miss: drag and drop link creation

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I've mentioned here a few times that progress is not linear. Howard Oakley has a piece on a related topic today . For example, no applic...

iCloud backup and my lost authenticator codes

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When my local Apple store tech was unable to remove the battery from my iPhone 8 they gave me a new device -- which was SIM locked to AT&...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

ToDo apps: Microsoft's solution

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I've used Appigo's ToDo app for about 12 years (with Toodledo at first). It's had problems over the years, but in general it'...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

Can you do a Time Machine backup to a USB flash drive (thumb drive)?

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 I'd wondered if it was possible to do a Time Machine backup to a cheap Flash Drive. My daughter is going to college and probably doesn&...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Chrome malware: Managed by your organization

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I think my son installed a "managed by your organization" chrome malware extension when he was trying to find Flash. This one show...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Blogger (draft) supports mobile

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If you are using Blogger Draft you will find that it works fairly well in Safari.app and Chrome.app for iOS. The new interface is responsive...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Carbon Copy Cloner was quietly excluding 1Password stores from backup (Corrected: app, not data stores)

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This morning's heart attack: " CCC no longer excludes 1Password by default ." What the fork were they thinking ?! ----------- ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Python macOS environments for learners in 2020

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My daughter is auditing Coursera's Intro to Python class . It's pretty standard stuff, but I was surprised by the development enviro...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Facebook still has RSS (iCal) feed for Calendar Events but it is insanely obscure

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I thought Facebook had removed the link we used to have to see the feed URL for a Facebook "calendar". (A Facebook calendar is the...
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Monday, February 17, 2020

Canon's dSLR lens -- upgrade program for out of service lenses

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The Canon EF 28-135 lens I bought in 2006 (!) for $420 died recently. The autofocus stopped working. I can't complain too much -- I go...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

My advice for managing online credentials

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I wrote this up for a book project on special needs iPhone users (Explorers), but it's also my recommendation for non-geek iPhone users....