As I mentioned a while back (not here, my blogging has been lacking lately), my power cord for my laptop frayed itself down to the wire. So I made myself an appointment at the Apple Store down the road from my work, and went in today to hopefully deal with it. As expected, it was …
Seems that since Apple started serving ads from their new mobile advertising platform, named ‘iAds’, there’s been a bit of a tizzy, with people mocking them for saying that they are ads that you’ll want to see, and how dare they advertise ads in your mobile phone as a “feature”. First of all, I hate …
What would be really awesome to have on the iPhone, and I’m sure it’s completely doable, as the device is just a little computer, is advanced incoming phone call management, like Google Voice. For example, I’d love to be able to set up my phone so that: Contacts from my “business” category are either silent …
Well, Mr. Buck Stops here was on the ball all right. Less than 2 days after my Apple support debacle FedEx showed up at my doorstep with my new headphones. Yay!
OK, this is going to be long and ranty I think, so I apologize in advance. About a month ago I bought a set of “premium” apple headphones for use with my iPhone. The default iPhone headset had been the victim of being crushed under my laptop, and the microphone/clicker wasn’t clicking properly. I figured …
So for some reason my home built Apple Time Capsule started giving me problems, errors about “operation not permitted” and such, and not backing up. Being that I’m becoming more and more backup conscious lately, I let this go on for a month or two before I finally broke down and tried to find a …
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The short answer is to look here for the instructions that finally made it all work for me. After a little “mishap” with my addressbook a few days ago (helpfully synced, empty to the net and to my phone, so nowhere had a backup) I finally figured that checking out the much touted “Time Machine” …
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Normally I’m not a huge fanboy, and I try (no, really, I do) not to turn into an Apple Fanboy (or a Linux Fanboy), at least to too extreme an extreme. However, one thing I noticed a bit ago that I thought I should mention, at least in the “this is where Apple wins” department…. …
Update: Thanks Boone for the digg! So I finally got off the phone with Rogers and have a bit of information that might help my fellow Canadians with navigating the tricky waters that is figuring out WTF Rogers is doing with their plans. I have a feeling that they might not be so much evil …
Conclusion: 8.5/10 I got into work today, plugged in my MacBook Pro to power, USB keyboard/mouse, network cable, and secondary display…. wait a minute, second display is still in power saving mode, that’s odd. OK, reboot. Nothing. Unplug, replug. Nothing. Troubleshoot by checking to see if the monitor works with another computer (it does), if …