Monday, February 17, 2020

Canon's dSLR lens -- upgrade program for out of service lenses

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The Canon EF 28-135 lens I bought in 2006 (!) for $420 died recently. The autofocus stopped working. I can't complain too much -- I go...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

My advice for managing online credentials

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I wrote this up for a book project on special needs iPhone users (Explorers), but it's also my recommendation for non-geek iPhone users....
Saturday, January 04, 2020

Apple's Family: The many surprises of creating an Apple ID with age 13 or under

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(You can skip the rant to get to the tech details) <rant>I frequently berate Apple for the radioactive-feces-infested-dumpster-fire t...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Share Sheet crash in iOS 13.3 - try removing apps that have associated share sheet actions

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I upgraded from iOS 12 to 13.3. Most things worked (Parental Controls/Screen Time may be more broken, but it’s always broken), but I had one...
Sunday, December 01, 2019

How to create a file system reference to an iCloud Note

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My daughter wanted us to use a shared Apple Note for trip planning. That's fine, but I wanted a way to reference it from the macOS folde...

Unable to use MarsEdit with Blogger - Google web OAUTH failure with DHCP mode on AirPort Extreme

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I'm now unable to use MarsEdit with Blogger on Mojave or High Sierra. When Google asks me to authenticate instead of getting the usual e...

Removing encryption from PDF on macOS with Chrome

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My son's employer has one of those obsolete and spectacularly awful SAP style web sites that distributes pay statements. The PDFs are ...