Saturday, November 28, 2015

iPhone 6 screen pop problem

›
A day ago, as I slid my finger along the right side of my 9 month old iPhone 6 screen, I heard and felt a sharp pop. It is the sort of thin...
2 comments:
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Old pet peeve: Blogger uses <BR> tags instead of <P> tags to demarcate paragraphs

›
I wrote about Blogger’s mad formatting 4 years ago  and five years ago . I guess it’s time again. This time I’ll include some screenshots. ...
1 comment:

The curse of DRM - can't read new book because Adobe E_ACT_NOT_READY

›
This is why we should all loathe Digital Rights Management in books. I download the EPUB version of a Google Play book I bought and I got t...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Sledging the drives

›
Obsolete and dead hard drives have been piling up for 7 years in a wardrobe I want to empty. Here they are ready for execution; one had to b...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

Thunderbolt Dock: Eject all disks prior to undock

›
My new Elgato TB2 dock comes with an installer for an undock utility, but it also installs a kernel extension for some other function. I nee...

Comcast's xfinity wifi and XFINITY.mobileconfig

›
The coffee shop’s WiFi was flailing. Periodically my MacBook popped up an xfinity wifi option. I vaguely remembered reading of this when I ...
2 comments:
Saturday, October 31, 2015

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

›
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...