Gordon's Tech

Many years ago I bought a (then) Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 document scanner. The hardware has been superb but the MacOS desktop software was al...

Seven years ago we switched from CenturyLink to Comcast/Xfinity . At the time I thought CenturyLink was kaput. Today we switched back; I'...

My 2015 MacBook Air uses Thunderbolt 2; it was connected to an elgato T2 hub (reliable for over 6 years) with a few USB and Firewire 800 per...

In retrospect my AirPort Extreme was probably flaky for a while. It's hard to diagnose router failure issues, but my son complained his ...

I tried using a SanDisk USB Flash ("thumb") drive as an alternative Time Machine backup device on my daughter's 2020 Intel Mac...

 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&...

I have made  (2000)  several  (2004)  tries  (2012) at digitizing our family video but my lost best effort only got about 10% done. I figure...

My 2015 Air shut down suddenly two weeks ago. The battery was at about 80%. When I got it home and plugged it in it showed classic bad SMC b...

I was deceived. Prior to buying my iPhone 8 I read that Apple’s 3.5mm to lightning adapter didn’t support audio in for earphones with a mic...

My 94yo father lives in a veterans long term care facility located in Ste Anne de Bellevue, a small community at the west end of the island ...

This post is based on  my two star Amazon review of our 3yo paper-jamming Brother HL6180DW : We've had this printer for 3 years. Ear...

After months of reliable use my Elgato Thunderbolt 2 hub is dropping my USB3 external SSD; just like the OWC T2 hub did in my initial testin...

I liked the ME918LL/A AirPort Extreme for 17 months. It covered most of our house with a single device and it was pretty reliable. Around 17...

This posts could go on for hours, but I’m racing a 20 minute timer [2]. I think it’s still worth sharing. Until this year I used an ugly co...

A day ago, as I slid my finger along the right side of my 9 month old iPhone 6 screen, I heard and felt a sharp pop. It is the sort of thin...

Obsolete and dead hard drives have been piling up for 7 years in a wardrobe I want to empty. Here they are ready for execution; one had to b...

My 2009 iMac is finally dying. It was my second iMac and my second iLemon. My 2005 iMac had early screen discoloration, overheating, and ...

My Apple Time Capsule is dead. It started taking a very long time to join my wireless network, so I did a ’restore default settings’. The re...

I was on hold with CenturyLink 's “retention” service. That’s where support sends customers who request escape. The first 8 minutes of h...

App.net’s gaelicwizard   posted this approach to hard drive testing back in Oct 2013 . I’d lost it for a while but just found it again today...