Sunday, January 24, 2021

Put display to sleep on Mac with Touch ID: ctrl-shift-power replaced by hot corner

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I use Ctrl-Shift-Power to put my MacBook Air display to sleep each night. That doesn't work on a Mac with Touch ID. I believe the only ...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Don't blame your hub when your USB Flash (thumb) drive disconnects from your Mac

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I tried using a SanDisk USB Flash ("thumb") drive as an alternative Time Machine backup device on my daughter's 2020 Intel Mac...

Migrating from 9yo 11" High Sierra MacBook Air to 2021 Big Sur M1 Air

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I replaced Emily's 8-9 yo MacBook Air 11" running High Sierra with Apple's latest (M1) Air (Big Sur). A few notes for others wh...
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 --...