Sunday, January 19, 2014

Mass archiving of thousands of Gmail messages - working around Gmail's new bugs

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A family member had accumulated over 6000 messages in her Gmail inbox. No problem thought I, I'd just use the old "Select All"...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Persistent performance issues on a friend's iMac: eternally stuck spotlight indexing

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A buddy of mine is more tolerant of computer problems than I am, but he's been dropping hints that he'd like me to take a look at hi...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Cleaning up a Twitter account may no longer be possible

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Eons ago I wrote using my TrueName. In those days the sun was brighter, the snow softer, Google was good, and unicorns danced on rainbows. T...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Switching my 2009 iMac to an SSD - six months later

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What do you call a $1,500 computer that contains a fragile and unreliable component in the core of an unserviceable case? What do call the g...
Saturday, December 07, 2013

How to clean up the Samsung Smart TV you shouldn't have bought

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You shouldn't have bought that Samsung Smart TV [1]. You should have bought a dumb TV with decent speakers, a simple remote, and simple...
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Friday, November 29, 2013

iOS 7.0.3: Large data charges, newly enabled iCloud movie downloads, and missing cellular data controls

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Things got quite weird as I and my app.net correspondents dug into this problem. See the updates below for the full story, which seems to ha...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Configuring an EnGenius Technologies Long Range 11n 2.4GHz Wireless Bridge/Access Point (ENH202): Computers & Accessories

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A buddy of mine decided he wanted a bridged connection to my home network. With a bit of input from me he settled on the  EnGenius Technolog...
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