Friday, April 02, 2021

The panicky M1 MacBook Air known as Crashy

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Nine weeks ago I replaced Emily's 9yo 11" Air with a 2021 M1 Air . Shortly after we passed the return date I realized I'd made ...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Big Sur bug: Mail Search (corespotlightd) fails on multi-user machine after a user logs out

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We are indebted to GanawaGangunawa  for figuring out why Mail search was failing on Emily's M1 MacBook Air (known to our family as &quo...
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Saturday, February 06, 2021

Fixing the Mojave Mail split view in full screen bug

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For many users Mojave email will periodically open in Split View mode even then Mail Preferences: General split view is unchecked. I'm t...
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...