I have, like many, an external drive that is running all the time. (OK, I have more than one, but that’s not the point.) They are on a shelf, under my desk, out of site… but not out of mind because of the noise they make. Now, I’ll admit it’s “quiet noise” – nothing you […]

How email works ( greatly oversimplified basic guide.) Email has two parts: incoming and outgoing. Incoming is all the email that someone else sends to you, and outgoing is all the email you’re sending to someone else. Incoming is handled by a machine out on the internet. Outgoing is handled by a different machine out […]

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. Econ Technologies Home 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 […]

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 […]