Monday, March 24, 2014

Mavericks iBooks Apple ID and Sync issues - one possible fix

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iBooks for Mac 1.0 has not been well received; Apple Discussions include a good range of rants and removal hacks. (You can, and should,  re...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Low cost net entry for Canadians: The Virgin Mobile experience

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For my US kids I wanted low cost voice/text services and no data. With H2O Wireless we pay $40/year per kid . Yeah, 40 bucks. The buys never...
Saturday, March 08, 2014

Aperture and/or iPhoto had a nasty habit of emptying Facebook photo albums @2011 or so

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For some time I've noticed some of the older Facebook albums I'd created from either iPhoto or Aperture showed with generic icons wh...
Sunday, March 02, 2014

Lion: prompted for lpadmin group when printer pauses (and Apple's permissions mess)

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I didn't have a problem with Snow Leopard and my prior printer, but our elder MacBook (plastic, dual USB, no ML support) running Lion is...
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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