Saturday, July 30, 2011

Google+: Circles are for both access control and subscription lists

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The Google Reader UI lets me manage people who post once a year and newspapers that post 100 articles a day. For example, the NYT Science f...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Apple's $1000 docking station

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Anyone can sell a laptop docking station for $1000. Only Apple can make something that seems almost worth it ... Apple Thunderbolt Displa...
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Restoring an XP backup (.bkf) file in Windows 7

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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...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Lion: the curious case of the stingy desktop pictures

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My copy of Snow Leopard has seven folders of desktop pictures, about 35-40 images. OS X Lion comes with 14 images total . Stingy and weird....
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Viewing Mac OS X Parental Control files

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One of the many signs that OS X parental controls are half-baked is that Snow Leopard's default log tool doesn't actually .. you kno...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Google Voice and merging app and non-app Google accounts with the same user names

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This is painful. I hope you don't have to understand it. It may help you to know that you will probably lose data if you merge accounts....
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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...