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MacBook Pro this morning turned on but no bong and the screen is black. Google searches leads to either a motherboard failure or try a PRAM reset. That means hold down the on and then p, r and the option and command key. Quite hard to do but it worked!

Well every release of OS X seems to break our trusty old Drobo Pro. The things that really don’t work: iSCSI initiator. The one they use needs an old Java 6 and is pretty flaky, but there are not complaints like the Firewire and USB. I’ve had lots of prior…

Now that world is moving to 4K displays, it’s interesting to see what hardware actually works where. This is 4x more pixels than a 1080p display and double (about) that of a retina display (which is 2.8K or 1800p depending on the measurement system). So here is what seems to…

Weird assymetry, you can control an iTunes from an iOS device, but not from any Mac OS X computer… Here’s how to fix that… lion – How can I control iTunes from another Mac? – Ask Different I’ve got a Mac Mini running Lion that stores my iTunes library. It’s…

PSQX4645ZA_TD7695_OI – KXTD7695.pdf This phone’s off mode is pretty obscure, but one day one then another of our phones looked dead. The battery showed fully charged, but when you pulled out of the charger, the screen went completely blank. Well, it turns out that unlike most devices, this just means…

Well, if you had a bunch of time on your hands and just wanted to fly somewhere (loving adventure), then you’d want to maybe fly in the best first class seats in the world, so here they are: Etihad Airways continues winning streak as it’s First Class seats are named…

When looking for things for the home, I use three sources. First is Consumer reports (subscription required) and they do some nice tests Then, Cooksillustrated.com (subscription required) which is mainly about recipes, but they do some great tests of kitchen stuff Then there is the meta site, The Sweethome which is…

How do I password protect my albums? « zenphoto forums. I haven’t used zenphoto in a while, but still like it mainly because it is file system based, so I can do big reorganizations of my 7,000 photos without painful user interface interactions. In this case, the main thing is…

Hey it’s freezing up here. So how do u keep warm? Pelonis. Not a super choice. The delonghi hmp 1500 is very popular on amazon $79 and is very small and light and not ugly like the oil filled radiator models. $69 at newegg. $64 at Walmart but out of…

I remember when figuring out a font was impossible, but now it’s easy, just myfonts.com/WhatTheFont  or whatfontis.com by feeding it a jpeg of the font you don’t recognize and it popts it back to you. When you get a match, then you can see how to download it by typing…