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Tech / Re: Apple TV+ on iPhone
« on: April 04, 2022, 03:25:10 PM »
MBP will handle it. Did you get the offer for Arcade, too??
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Tech / Re: A thanks to Techsurvivors!
« on: April 04, 2022, 03:22:57 PM »
Lord, you people (old and new) are wonderful, decent, funny ... should I go on? Not long ago, I searched the Apple Support community pages for a HomePod answer, and was astonished at the low level of communication, from both the "OPs" and the "tech volunteers."
Hang in there, people: recruit newbies, do whatever you have to do to survive. The tech world needs you.
Hang in there, people: recruit newbies, do whatever you have to do to survive. The tech world needs you.
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Tech / Migrating music, or, iTunes again
« on: January 30, 2017, 10:51:57 AM »
Thanks to you both. Not long ago I stole one of my backup hard drives to store the overflow of household TV shows, and now that BBCA is doing Star Trek Voyager, I don't expect to get it back any time soon. So I spent the weekend realigning backups.
I studied the links you suggested, and conclude that it was cancelling iTunes Match after a year that got me into trouble. Until I paid Apple something (I chose Apple Music), there was no way to see what was in my iCloud Music Library. Now on to downloading the cuts I hunger for.
I studied the links you suggested, and conclude that it was cancelling iTunes Match after a year that got me into trouble. Until I paid Apple something (I chose Apple Music), there was no way to see what was in my iCloud Music Library. Now on to downloading the cuts I hunger for.
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Tech / Migrating music, or, iTunes again
« on: January 28, 2017, 10:46:13 AM »
Last year I went through an expensive round with Apple Match (gave it to myself for my birthday, yet!), which resulted in the loss of all my non-Apple purchases except for my secret copy on a Snow Leopard laptop. Cutting to the chase, I've successfully moved all 1843 cuts to a new AirBook, but I'm in fear that I'll accidentally open iTunes while I have the internet connected, thus allowing iCloud to slip in and steal them again, in the guise of keeping everything safe and sound in the cloud.
What I'd like to do is merge these 1843 with my $10/month purchases from the store, and quick hide everything in a closet or something.
Meanwhile, I'm off to upgrade a Mini to Sierra. Using a t-mobile hotspot, I hope.
What I'd like to do is merge these 1843 with my $10/month purchases from the store, and quick hide everything in a closet or something.
Meanwhile, I'm off to upgrade a Mini to Sierra. Using a t-mobile hotspot, I hope.
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Tech / Saving bandwidth
« on: May 12, 2015, 03:28:32 PM »
Good stuff, and I'll alert you when the cheesecake comes out of the oven.
Paddy, you brought up iTunes, and Turn Off ITunes Match was the second item on my list.
Now I'll be gone for several days checking off every item y'all have mentioned.
Paddy, you brought up iTunes, and Turn Off ITunes Match was the second item on my list.
Now I'll be gone for several days checking off every item y'all have mentioned.
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Tech / Saving bandwidth
« on: May 10, 2015, 08:41:39 AM »
Living in the sticks (one step before the Styx) I am restricted by my satellite provider to a data allowance of 10G down, 3G up per month. I'd like to compile a list of bandwidth-eaters and their solutions. I'll start: #1 eater Siri. #1 solution: turn Siri off.
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Tech / iPads - what are they good for
« on: March 07, 2013, 09:00:12 PM »
We have 2 iPads now, a 2 and a mini. I sorta thought they were toys until I bought Pages and Numbers. Totally professional apps. And my doctor is jealous, since she's stuck lugging a Dell laptop from consult room to office.
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Tech / Pogue (today) on extending a WiFi network
« on: March 07, 2013, 08:50:55 PM »
I used Airport Expresses to extend my wireless network 100' to the brick house next door. Oh, and David Pogue has never steered me wrong yet.
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Tech / 3 Macs on router, one wont hook up now
« on: February 22, 2013, 12:46:45 AM »
LOL. Those instructions are just about verbatim the ones that our satellite provider (wouldn't if we didn't have to) suggests for every time our dish/modem drops its signal, which for a while was three and four times a day. It really is the router either dropping an address or failing to pick one up, and the aforementioned reset will do the trick.
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Tech / iPhone tips
« on: February 11, 2013, 04:29:09 PM »
"Often, Music and Photos & Camera are the two biggest offenders. If you use a service like iTunes Match, you can safely delete the Music cache on your device to free up space. If you sync your device with your Mac to back up photos and videos, you can delete those photos and videos, too."
(That from p. 2 of the article cited above.
Won't that delete them all when you sync another batch? Synching is a holy mystery to me, although I use Dropbox as though I knew what I was doing. ICloud seems to either duplicate or erase the stuff I want to sync, but maybe that's because I'm weak on the difference between synching and garden-variety backing up.
(That from p. 2 of the article cited above.
Won't that delete them all when you sync another batch? Synching is a holy mystery to me, although I use Dropbox as though I knew what I was doing. ICloud seems to either duplicate or erase the stuff I want to sync, but maybe that's because I'm weak on the difference between synching and garden-variety backing up.
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Tech / Firefox Profile... braindead :(
« on: January 16, 2013, 03:40:22 PM »
Not long ago, FF created a Sync option, accessible through their Pref window. A note of caution: don't try it if more than one person uses the devices/computers thus synched. CHAOS.
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2009 / Mac Classic motherboard
« on: May 27, 2009, 10:06:58 PM »
NOW I'm befuddled. Fixed the floppy drive, and started up from the startup floppy. The manual says I should install the system (a 6, I think) from the floppy. But the floppy the owner gave me was a startup disk, not an install disk. There's no sys on the hard drive (which LEM's history pages say it doesn't have ... it does ... I've removed it and reinstalled it), just a bunch of his old WriteNow docs that won't, of course, load.
IF I can find a system install floppy, and IF I succeed in installing a system, THEN I'll deal with the memory problem. Does that sound backwards?
I'm combing the 'net for a floppy; anyone have one in the basement?
IF I can find a system install floppy, and IF I succeed in installing a system, THEN I'll deal with the memory problem. Does that sound backwards?
I'm combing the 'net for a floppy; anyone have one in the basement?
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2009 / Me thinks they may be a bit too eager?
« on: May 26, 2009, 05:47:24 PM »
XABD, read that link! I can't!
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2009 / Mac Classic motherboard
« on: May 21, 2009, 07:12:33 PM »
Kris, thanks. Y'all come up with the greatest sites ... it's all in using the right searches, right?
Anyway, sounds like either a RAM (maybe) or a software glitch. I've got to refunctionalize or replace (hmmm...) the Super Drive (I love it that they called the multi-floppy a super drive) and try SU from the System Disk.
What do real people do for fun?
Anyway, sounds like either a RAM (maybe) or a software glitch. I've got to refunctionalize or replace (hmmm...) the Super Drive (I love it that they called the multi-floppy a super drive) and try SU from the System Disk.
What do real people do for fun?
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2009 / Mac Classic motherboard
« on: May 20, 2009, 06:30:11 PM »
This thread should be titled, "the Mac Classic that couldn't die." Unless it has. I bought the E-Bay motherboard with memory board, bought the right PRAM battery, installed both. Varying results: 1. Chime, smile, followed by sad mac with 00000000F//000000002. Shut it off, 10 seconds, restarted. 2. Chime, smile, welcome screen followed by "Error: Memory manager." Reopened machine, swapped RAM into new daughter board. Repeats result 1. Allowed 15 minute warmup (heaven knows why), repeats result 1. Can't find decode of sad mac with 00000000F//000000002.
I'm pretty careful about stray juice; I proudly wear the alligator clip bracelet, etc., but there are a lot of things that can have gone wrong.
Ideas?
I'm pretty careful about stray juice; I proudly wear the alligator clip bracelet, etc., but there are a lot of things that can have gone wrong.
Ideas?