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 […]
Here’s a brief explanation of how email works. When you send an email to a friend, it has an address like user@domain.ext. The email you’re sending goes to an outgoing mail server (a computer) via Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The SMTP servertries to figure out where to send it, but It doesn’t understand people’s names […]
My Apple TV 4 (ATV4) hooked up to a 4K TV looked like everything was filmed thru fog. “Shot through scrim” as they say. No contrast, no vibrancy. Well, looking around, as you likely have, this is hardly uncommon. I tried the whole range of adjustment, (as you likely have) without any luck. Last night […]
Permissions: “fetching…” the fix. So you’ve checked your permission on a problematic file, and discovered that that first entry is for a user named “fetching…” More than a little trouble, especially if you just migrated 1.2 million files from one machine to another. You can’t move or delete almost anything at all without having to […]
Here’s something I just discovered. Maybe it’s “old news” or maybe it’s “just me” but FWIW Based on my own experience, there is a subtle difference between powered and unpowered USB 3.0 hubs: sometimes a powered-hub device is not recognized. Specifically I have an external USB 3 trayless enclosure that I use for swapping in/out […]
Tired of trying to remember website passwords? Does the thought of long, complex passwords intimidate you? Are you using “IL0VeYou” as your main password? Does the thought of a different password for every site bring up images of the Spanish Inquisition? How would you like to be able to choose (say) your banking website from […]
If you are using a recent version of Safari web browser, you’ll notice that some videos will not play. This is true not just on one site, but on all sites that embed videos. Here’s the fix: The problem with videos is a “feature” of Safari. The recent versions have autoplay turned off. To […]
Here’s the code to play a video MP4 Cinemagraph on Safari (as well as others, of course): <video style=”width: 100%;” preload=”auto” src=”https://yourSource.mp4″ autoplay=”autoplay” loop=”loop” muted=””></video> Obviously, you replace the URL with the once to your cinemagraph.
On using email: Today I was backing up my server, and noticed that some clients have over 1 Terabyte of email. Honestly, I’m surprised their email has not slowed to a snail’s pace, and been kicking up all kinds of errors. What happens is this: every email you get is stored on the host’s email […]