This is strictly anecdotal, but I’ve been tracking this suspicion in my own environments for 10 years now, and I’m at least confident enough in it to post it here: Air ionizers will screw up your LED monitors and televisions.  This is one of those “theoretically it shouldn’t happen”… “but it does” things. Ionizers charge […]

I have lots of probably horrible habits, but one is dropping into the Console to look at the system log every now and then. A few days ago I did so, for the first time in weeks, to find literally tens of thousands of these: Nov 8 12:33:42 myQuad.local discoveryd[56]: Basic DNSResolver dropping message because […]

I’d seen these before:   “Your iCloud password for (my account name) is incorrect. Please ensure you are entering the correct password for your iCloud account.”   It usually came up after changing my iCloud password, and having some other computers or iOS devices logged in to iCloud. Just needed to change everything to the […]

… as in going from 10.9.4 to 10.5, or from Mavericks to Yosemite. Step zero: 0) if you do not have MenuMeters AND are showing its disk lights, now would be a good time. ( http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/index.html )  Free. (MenuMeters will show you when your drives are active – being read or written. This is “a good thing” […]

The Apple Watch will be a home-run game-changer like the iPhone and iPad.

If I was going for one-package-most-versatile, the solution is Chronosync. http://www.econtechnologies.com The price ($40) is right, and includes -lifetime- updates; no more mucking about with buying “the next version.” The product has been around for a while, and has a sterling reputation. I’ve been using it for years. (I also have SuperDuper and Carbon Copy […]

Took me a while to figure this out, but as of Jun 15, 2014, here’s how you do it: to re-order images in Photos for iPad/iPhone: (scroll down if this doesn’t work on your iPhone) open an album in the Photos app.click selectselect the images you want (blue checkmark)click add tocreate new albumopen that albumselectpress […]

Well, there’s DropBox.com, Copy.com, Google’s Cloud, Apple’s Cloud… and gawd knows how many more places there are to store your stuff on there on someone else’s server. Of course, if you happen to have your own server, or FTP access (or a bunch more protocols*) there’s one more possibility: ExpanDrive, at expandrive.com . With it, […]

Now that iOS 7 is out, you’ll find a whole load of applications have also been updated, and require downloading. Sometimes you’ll see the download simply stop, for no apparent reason.  The reason is usually some app getting stuck: either part way through, or even right from the git-go.  Click on the downloads arrow (next […]