Saturday, October 31, 2015

Time Capsule & Time Machine: "Browse Other Backup Disks" doesn't let you access backups from a different device

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One day your iMac dies . It’s old, but not old-old. Sucks. Good thing you are paranoid about backups. You have onsite backups. You have offs...

"Unable to contact iMessage server": try restoring from iCloud instead of iTunes

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I picked up Emily’s SIM-Free [1] 64GB silver 6s from the Mall of America Apple store Friday night. I’d used Apple’s reservation system so th...
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

File sharing for the all-MacBook home

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Lifehacker’s guide to home file sharing was written in 2010 for Windows users. Excluding a traditional server/file share the options back t...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

iCloud Settings: remove devices, restore some iCloud content (but not Notes)

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An Apple World post on El Capitan’s iCloud device management tools  led me to check out what  iCloud Web Settings  supports. It has similar ...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Group text on iOS: native functionality and the Contaqs.app alternative (and GroupMe)

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Our school mountain biking team has been doing group texting for coaches. Works well on rides — especially when coordinating riders of diffe...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Macs and external SSD storage - thunderbolt hubs and USB 3 UASP

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My 2009 iMac is finally dying. It was my second iMac and my second iLemon. My 2005 iMac had early screen discoloration, overheating, and ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Replacing a Time Capsule with a Synology NAS - Time Machine for multiple machines

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When my first Time Capsule died young I grumbled and bought another. When the second Time Capsule died even younger I decided to try a Syn...
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