That subject statement is true, and if you want to understand how websites work, here’s the most fundamental thing you can learn: Web pages exist like ghosts, only in your web-broswer. When you visit a website, it is not like seeing a painting  thru a window. The webpage itself does not exists in finished form on […]

Subject says it: about a month or so ago, my Mac started randomly rebooting. Not when I did “this”… or “that”, or even when I was in the room. Everything is rosy, and BANG! it reboots. Needless to say, I was not a happy camper. The most common reason for that would be something hardware […]

My website clients also get email addresses tossed in for free. So if the client’s company is “Acme” and their site address is “acme.com” then I can sign them up with emaill address like “ceo@acme.com” or “director@acme.com” or “jane@acme.com”. Unlike the websites which I create and maintain and control for them, I have absolutely no […]

You have probably heard that Mac OS Catalina, 10.15, will end support for 32-bit apps. Sounds geeky, and it is in some ways, but here’s the bottom line: some of your applications will quit working. Period. End of story.  Here’s what Apple says:https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208436 So… what to do? 1) find out which apps you have that […]

The new cable is here! The new cable is here!   (an homage to Steve Martin…) BlueJeansCable is the real deal for ethernet and hdmi (and other) cables. It’s also expensive.   I try to hard-wire everything I can. I have cable tunning from my 24-port switch running all over the place, including out into the […]

1) on you2 phone, enable wifi for the Box 2) in box settings, enable IPV6 3) in your router, set IPV6 to “passthrough” your router does NOT need to be in “bridge” mode.

Generally, if some of your emails bounce, but others do not, then DO make sure that your IMAP and SMTP settings are both from the same host. You can no longer use a different outgoing server (SMTP) from your email address. That is, if your email is myname@godaddy.com, and you get your email at IMAP.godaddy.com, […]

Get a good spam filter, and use it. I don’t recommend setting it to automatically delete junk, since nothing is perfect and you’ll every now and then find an important email accidentally filtered into your junk mailbox. Be sure to white list it (remove it from the junk folder.) I cannot imagine why anyone would […]

How your email works (or sometimes doesn’t). “Your email was not delivered: recipient’s inbox is full!” Websites serve up pages of information, photos, videos, text and so on, upon request. Your web browser (Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari) requests a web page, and some computer running “server” software, sends the information back. Of course, the […]

There are all kinds of weird reasons email that you want to receive, nonetheless ends up in your spam mailbox. The point of this post is not what those things are, but what to do next… So now what? Spam filtering happens on your iPhone or computer, not on the mail server. The whole point […]