Gordon's Tech
Tech tips and notes with a bit of commentary. macOS and iOS mostly.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Facebook: The differences between Pages and Groups
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This is short, but it took me a while to figure out and I’ve not seen it elsewhere. Facebook offers both Pages and Groups for use by busines...
Saturday, August 23, 2014
ptel Real Paygo vs. H2O with data
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[WARNING: See Update 10/6/14 for Ptel’s fatal flaw.] We’ve had the kids on H20 Wireless, an AT&T MVNO, for two years . The only change ...
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Security is hard - where I realize my clone backups are browsable
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I rotate my backups offsite, so I encrypt the drives using 10.9’s quite good drive encryption. Which works fine — until I realized that ever...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
iPhone Cellular data -- how to get by on only 2GB a month (for two people)
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Apple’s settings for controlling use of cellular data are a weird mess. A mess because they’re scattered over many screens, and weird becaus...
iPhone cellular data - what is iTunes Accounts and why does it use so much data?
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You know those people who buy a hybrid car and go crazy trying to maximize their gas mileage? That’s how I’m getting with our AT&T data ...
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Aperture to Facebook: making images visible to Friends by default
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I’d long wondered why, when I shared to Facebook from Aperture, my images were shared as ‘Only Me’. Looks like one can change that from Face...
Sunday, July 20, 2014
iPhone with sync error: restore from iCloud fixed when restore from iTunes failed
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On the eve of a big road trip my daughter’s 4S was unable to sync more than four movies - despite having 15GB of free space. As is customary...
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