Gordon's Tech

Tech tips and notes with a bit of commentary. macOS and iOS mostly.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Removing 3500+ iCloud Contacts with no content (No Name) and Contacts.app use of 25GB of virtual memory

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I suspect many people's iOS Contacts have been trashed by iCloud, but only a small percentage realize how bad things are. It may explain...
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Getting control of a Mac when rogue software consumes virtual memory.

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Adam Fields claimed  something is deeply broken in OS X memory management . He says it's been partly fixed in Mountain Lion , but .. ...
Monday, December 31, 2012

iPhoto bug: black or all white photos when editing on MacBook Duo

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I haven't used iPhoto on our white MacBook running Lion for years. I did so recently and I discovered I was afflicted by the  Photo turn...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Making Siri Useful

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I'm getting more value from Siri lately. I think it's partly the enhanced noise canceling of the iPhone 5, though that may have othe...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Blogger's comment infrastructure - the end of anonymous

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Google's Blogger has fought the good fight against spam comments for years, but it's failing now in several   different ways. In th...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Voice call audio clipping and dropouts on iPhone 5: hardware failure, bug, or network issue?

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Modern voice quality is highly variable at the best of times, and I don't do all that many business calls on my mobile, so it took me a ...
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Sunday, December 09, 2012

Spotlight indexer (mdworker) priority is too high in Lion/Mountain Lion.

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Spotlight was badly behaved in Leopard, but by late Snow Leopard Apple seemed to have most of the bugs worked out. Not so in Lion/Mountain...
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