Gordon's Tech

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I’m swearing off Wirecutter. Again. It’s not that their recommendations are awful, they’re just kind of inexpert. They don’t actually use t...

After various experiments the best way I’ve found to get Scrivener content into a MarsEdit blog post is to complete to HTML then copy/paste ...

Tableau is a popular data visualization tool with strong map features. My workplace version has an extensive list of data connections. Toni...

My 94yo father is a resident of a Canadian longterm care facility (veterans). He’s been surprisingly content there — though funding transiti...

My mother lived in Pointe Claire and received internet service through Videotron, a Quebec ISP. To cancel you have to call 1-888-433-6876 an...

It’s kind of nuts that I’m writing this, but Google didn’t have an answer when I asked “How do I buy an xbox 360 skyrim add-on for my son?” ...

I've ordered 3 printer cartridges since I bought my Brother 2140 a bit over two years ago  [2]. Yes, we still print. It's a kid thin...

After a disastrous SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration [1] it was clearly time to replace my team's use of SharePoint wiki. The mangled c...

I advertised  AT&T's $6.50 iPhone cables on a corporate social site, and a colleague responded with an even better deal from Monopr...

I've used several mind mapping tools over the past few years, including, most recently, MindManager for Windows. I like the tools well e...

I love the 70 year old RCA connector . It was the perfect invention, but the internet does not know who the inventor was. Those were the d...

I need to connect a game console to a computer speaker system. This requires some cable voodoo. Specifically I need to connect a Wii (compos...

For years my personal data was distributed between DOS/Windows/XP and Mac Classic/OS X environments. It's really only moved to a single ...

This is a pretty exotic fix, but I'm not the only one to run into the problem so I'll pass on what I learned (I found the link afte...

Via Slashdot , a Microsoft support document tells us the new Nehalem CPUs have some significant bugs... Stop error message on an Intel Xeon ...

I've seen this site used with quick group questions such as dates, places, etc. SurveyMonkey.com : ... SurveyMonkey has a single purpose...

Our four year old Microsoft mice were feeling kinda funky - on XP and iMac alike. Mouse feet intact, but hard to move, kinda erratic. Actual...

Mindjet’s MindManager is an exotic organizational/planning mind map app for XP and, to some extent, for OS X. Definitely for corporate use ...

This Macintouch reader report is the best summary I've come across on how to manage a wet gadget. Above all, remove the batteries ... Ma...