Friday, December 22, 2023

Retiring domain associated with a DreamHost WordPress site - migrating site content to a new domain

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I recently decided not to renew a domain managed and registered with DreamHost. That domain had an associated WordPress site. This is the se...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Downloading Facebook posts to document a trip

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During a recent trip to Seoul South Korea I did a travelogue through Facebook posts about the odd sorts of things that interest me. I wanted...

Canon DSLR doesn't show icon for remote control - you probably tried using the smartphone bluetooth connection

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I have an old Canon DSLR, the EOS Rebel SL2. I think this post may also apply to other Canon DLSRs.  If your remote used to work but now it ...
Monday, November 27, 2023

macOS OneDrive, ScanSnap PDFs and the "could not be opened" error in Monterey

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When I migrated from Mojave to Monterey I ran into the typical array of macOS upgrade issues -- including having to reinstall Monterey. Ther...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Scripting Photos.app in Ventura (and maybe Sonoma) with AppleScript, Automator, and Shortcuts

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[This post will be gradually developed. At the moment search engines return almost nothing on the current mess topic so even in its initial...
Friday, September 15, 2023

xt.local spam: Where it comes from, how to get rid of it

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Recently more of the email that bypasses Gmail's spam filters has a return address with the suffix "*.xt.local". I've been...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Fixing Eero performance issues - try removing a device

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We bought a 3 unit Eero 6 mesh WiFi router . From early days we ran into unreliable video problems. Remote users would say our bandwidth was...