Saturday, November 21, 2020

Google's mysterious new blogging platform

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Google Blogger has been largely forgotten, but   over the past 1-2 years it's been receiving regular updates . Mostly these have been im...

Blogger will republish old posts with new dates but keep old URL

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So I learned something today about Google's ancient blogger platform. You can republish old content with new dates without breaking the ...

Updating macOS - the paranoid approach (updated from 2008)

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I wrote the first version of this on 9/13/2008. I was looking for it 11/21/2020 and decided to see if I could update it a bit in advance of ...

macOS Mojave Safe Mode can take hours, the progress bar is no help. Also - Disk Utility and APFS

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 TL;DR When you startup in Safe Mode On MacOS Mojave the progress bar goes to 100% in a few minutes. It then sites there for a long time --...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Things I miss: drag and drop link creation

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I've mentioned here a few times that progress is not linear. Howard Oakley has a piece on a related topic today . For example, no applic...

iCloud backup and my lost authenticator codes

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When my local Apple store tech was unable to remove the battery from my iPhone 8 they gave me a new device -- which was SIM locked to AT...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

ToDo apps: Microsoft's solution

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I've used Appigo's ToDo app for about 12 years (with Toodledo at first). It's had problems over the years, but in general it...