Gordon's Tech

I’m having so many iTunes 12/iOS Device sync issues with the 7 devices I routinely sync to one iTunes instance, including the usbmuxd file d...

There are a lot of software domains that disappoint me. It's a 'get off my lawn' kind of thing. Enormous excitement about cosmet...

Windows is a broken and barren desert of malware and spyware, but I still need to work in it. Alas, I can't switch at work (yet). So,...

iCloud support is limited to relatively new Macs able to at least run Lion. Practically speaking, Mountain Lion. Apple is kinder to the Wi...

Windows XP full-text search was a back-ported version of Windows 7 search. It was a regression from Lookout (Microsoft Acquired)  but an imp...

I've been girding my primary machine for the Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion conversion for about a year. Yes, before ML was released. Hav...

A few years back two geek gods, Atwood and Spolsky, put Stack Overflow together . They were responding to the sploggish network of tooth gri...

For the past year I've had one set of Contacts in Outlook/Exchange server and another set in OS X Address Book/MobileMe. My iPhone pulle...

Based on a long history of problems with copying GBs of data over the LAN, I decided to move my data from a corporate XP box to a Win 7 box...

When I gave up my last XP machine, I created a VM from the disk image . It worked, but the performance was poor. My XP VM on an i5 iMac was ...

This is fun, but geeky. I run XP in a Fusion 3.1 VM so I can use PowerPoint 2007 (PPT 2008 for Mac is a disaster,my dept requires PPT)  an...

This is a narrowcast post. It's of interest to someone who ... Is a serious geek. Has to routinely find things in very large document ...

It's times like this that I really miss Byte (or BYTE?) magazine. They would have had great coverage of VMWare VMs - how they work, an...

[Shortly after I first wrote this, C.Y. released ResophNotes 1.0.5. Among other things, such as the ability to store notes as indexable .txt...

I had despaired of rescuing my notes from Outlook 2007. I'd written hundreds over time. In the old days I used Palm products that would...

I've been using Retrospect Professional 8 to backup a Windows 7 machine. That machine has VMware VM running. There have been no backup e...

I received a notice to update my beloved Windows Live Write r* yesterday. I unthinkingly downloaded the installer. Fool. It was a Trojan Hor...

Once upon a time, pixels and points were happily married. In the days of the Mac Plus and, a bit later, 17” 1024x768 CRTs, developers could ...

Twenty minutes before show time, my PowerPoint 2007 presentation (Sorry kittens ) was possessed. I tried adding a drawing item to an image a...

My sislaw used Linux Live USB Creator to create a Ubuntu USB key to boot her dead netbook. She pulled her drive data off after booting. So ...