Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Is my Apple refurb GSM iPhone really factory unlocked and ready for Virgin Mobile Canada?

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Last year I discovered that Virgin Mobile Canada's [1] prepaid service worked quite well with an AT&T (GSM) post-contract unlocked ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

GrandView Outliner and Information Manager: Scanned manual from 1990 - and a DOS Emulator

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Before the Omni Group created OmniOutliner , there was  Symantec MORE 3.1 (Mac) and GrandView 2.0 (DOS)  [1]. I was a heavy user of MORE, bu...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Managing unwanted Mac startup apps: ScanSnap's AOUMonitor and Citrix Receiver

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I replaced my despised ScanSnap S1300  with (sigh) another Fujitsu - the ScanSnap ix500 . So far I like the ix500 almost as much as I dislik...
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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...