Showing posts with label phone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phone. Show all posts
Saturday, April 22, 2023

iPhone Recovery Key attack vector kills your iCloud access: Workarounds pending an Apple fix including Apple ID protection

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Someone who has your iPhone passcode can lock you out of your Apple iCloud and Apple ID services -- as well as take control of your iPhone a...
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....
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Simplenote web (beta) version has much improved notes export

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The beta version of Simplenote ’s web client will export notes as text files and will use the note title as the name of the text file . When...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

Podcasts.app - sync Stations between iTunes and iPhone via iCloud, not via iTunes sync

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Apple removed playlists from iOS 11 podcasts.app. I loved playlists. They were a beautiful user friendly query building tool. Instead we ha...
Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Simplenote is not dead -- and the joy of nvAlt backup

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Simplenote.app, an Automattic product I use a zillion times a day, is less dead than I thought. They just released a version for Android, I ...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Google Voice for the home - Obihai SIP/VOIP devices and porting landline number to Obihai/Google Voice.

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Obihai Technology is marketing Google Voice use with their Obi VOIP-landline bridge products  (SIP & OBiTALK VoIP services, $40 on Amazo...
Saturday, January 03, 2015

Wanted - a way to make an old style landline work over a cellular connection.

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My 93 yo father is a resident of a Canadian Veterans long term care facility. He’s doing pretty well there, but it’s a bugger to reach him. ...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Using TruFon to create a local Canada number that forwards to US Google Voice

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My 93yo father is a resident of a long term care facility in Montreal. It’s been working well for him, but it’s not easy to reach him. He ha...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Canadian mobile for Americans: A primer. (Koodo, Google Voice/Hangout)

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It is hard for Americans to understand how awful Canada’s mobile and Internet options are . Imagine that your only option for cell and net a...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Review: Snapfon ezONE-C Senior mobile phone (GSM, unlocked)

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I bought my 83 yo mother the unlocked GSM  Snapfon ezONE-C Senior Cell Phone with Big Buttons  for about $80 (it's $60 now) along with i...
Friday, July 27, 2012

An AppleScript to prevent the iCloud CRLF bug - normalize line endings

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Yesterday I wrote perhaps the fifth AppleScript of my life, and I purged an iCloud paralyzing cloud of "Groups" created as a side...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

iMessage use on an AT&T iPhone without a SIM card (iPod Touch mode)

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iMessage is a very intriguing product. It's available as part of iOS 5 for iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone 3Gs, 4 or 4S. On non-phone iOS de...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

iPhone alternatives to AT&T's texting fees

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AT&T is facing the end of SMS . So it is mandating data plans for even unlocked smartphones while raising SMS costs. In our case, our u...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Contact Sync and Database.sqlite3 corruption bring Mail.app and my fast iMac to its knees

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Sometime over the past two weeks my relatively new iMac seemed to lose steam. It was slow to respond, lots of beachballs. Felt like it was o...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Review: Seattle Sports Dry Doc Waterproof Digi Case for my iPhone

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Jen Wieczner told a story of a friend lost, perhaps but for the sake of a waterproof phone case ... When Technology Can't Save You - Jen...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

MobileMe vs. Google Calendars

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MobileMe Calendar now supports public read-only sharing using the webcal (.ics) format. There's no public display as an HTML page. Mo...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

OS X 10.6: Synchronizing Address Book to Google Contacts

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The Help file for OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) Address Book sync to Google Contacts links to this oddly named Google page: Where can I find in...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Escape from Outlook Notes - ResophNotes, SimpleNote for iPhone and Notational Velocity

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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...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

AT&T will data block a phone - but this disables MMS messaging

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In the process of picking up my new iPhone [1] I asked (again) about blocking a user's data services. Today the store AT&T rep more ...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010

iPhone OS Calendar deletes Exchange server recurring appointments if you delete an instance

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Mind blowing bug that's been around since 2008 ... Apple's Potemkin iOS exchange support - the problem with being a peripheral custo...