Saturday, April 19, 2014

Why the low end MacBook Pro is the best family computer

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First of all, the best family computer is still a Mac. ChromeBooks will be a good option when prices fall below $180 for reasonable build qu...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Google is closing little used Google Apps accounts

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For a few years Google offered a free version of Google Apps, and even after that was discontinued you could get a free Apps service with a ...
Saturday, April 05, 2014

iOS 7.1 movies (video) sync from iCloud but not iTunes - a bug and a fix

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The afternoon that we were leaving for holiday I discovered that I couldn’t use iTunes to sync a movie (or a video Podcast) to my daughter’s...
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...