Sunday, February 13, 2022

How do Facebook Messenger (and Instagram Message) Link scams work?

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Every day large numbers of Facebook users receive a message that appears to be from a friend that invites them to click a link. If they clic...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Things I learned switching from Spotify to Apple Music

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I'll keep adding to this list. For historic reasons going back over 10 years all my owned music is under one Apple ID and my iCloud serv...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

How to add an Apple Store order to your Apple ID after purchasing as guest

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I finally ordered my iPhone 13 Pro -- but even though the Apple Store web view showed a link to my account the order was processed as a gues...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

Relentless beeping when plug iPhone into MacBook USB port: reset iPhone Location and Privacy

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Solved 9/12/2022 I wrote the post below when I used an iPhone 8. When I went to an iPhone 13 it seemed to resolve, but today I tried chargin...
Friday, January 07, 2022

How to remote (push) install a xbox store purchase to xbox from Mac

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I couldn't find out how to push an xbox game install to the console with Google searches. Here's what I learned on my own. Go to xbo...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Family sharing screen time bug: a fix for ghost apps

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I'm happy to say I actually fixed a bug in the buggiest apple product ever - family sharing screen time. The "always allowed" ...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Apple Mac App Store: "Unable to download item. Please try again later": The problem may be that you are not the purchaser.

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I was logged into my admin account on my daughter's Big Sur Air and saw the usual nag to update Apps. When I tried though I got  "U...