Sunday, March 27, 2016

Bandwidth use over 5 min video call: FaceTime << Facebook Messenger < Skype

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As part of my  Father longterm care iPad videoconferencing project  I compared cellular data use during an approximately 5 minute videoconfe...
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Saturday, March 26, 2016

Can I send an iTunes gift card to someone in another country? How about buy an app through iTunes?

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No. At least not as far as I can tell between the US and Canada. Unless you have both an Apple ID and a credit card and a billing address i...
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Father longterm care iPad videoconferencing project: Securing the iPad

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My father has been doing well in a Quebec long term care facility for veterans (in Canada that has historically meant WW II, he’s in his 90s...

Synology Time Machine backups: How to increase a user quota

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After my Synology NAS updated itself to version 6 one of my Time Machine backups stopped working. It might have been coincidental. Time Mach...
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How to update Synology Cloud Station Server Clients (Cloud Station Drive) after Synology NAS 6.0 update

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Looking back, 2009 was kind of a bad year. Somewhere around then we were in the tail end of the Great Recession, Google had turned Evil, and...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Using iOS 9.3 Notes.app to safely store passwords and other credentials

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I wrote this as part of a book project aimed at caregivers for special needs teens and adults, but the recommendations work for most non-gee...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Airport Utility: How to load an external configuration file for a brand new AirPort Extreme

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The AirPort Utility tries too hard to be friendly. It wants to do some fancy migration from an older device that’s running, but I’d already ...