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Continue reading →: Time Capsule and Airport Extreme Downgrade to 7.3 and MBA Problems
Well, many folks on “Apple’s discussion”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7026416 are talking about performance issues with 7.3.1. Like me, I now lose the connection to the Time Capsule drive and then Time Machine fails and looks for a password (which should be on the key chain). The other problem is slow network “speeds”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1477962&tstart=-2 where…
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Continue reading →: Color All-in-one revisited
OK, we had the Ikon guy in to look at printers that are all-in-one. Confirms some of the initial work we did. There are basically four vendors, HP, Canon, Ricoh and Xerox to consider. And there are two major lines, consumer and business oriented. So it seems to be a…
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Continue reading →: Time Machine Slow Initial Backup
We’ve found Time Machine incredibly, incredibly slow on the initial backup. Even with gigabit ethernet, it would backup may 3GB after 2 hours. With the way we use machines at work, it would just start over all the time. “Macrumors.com”:http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=379066 has some advice about what to do: * Turn off…
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Continue reading →: Wiki markup
Each Wiki has a different shorthand for HTML unfortunately. “Splitbrain”:http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:markup_compare does a good job of comparing them and they aren’t the same at all. Some relevant ones for Wikka Wiki are: notextile.. //italic// __underline__ ##monospace## ++deleted++ ~quoted text %%source code%% —– _Gives you a horizontal rule_ https://richtong.org should work as…
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Continue reading →: Wikka Wiki Tips
Starting to use Wiki’s and startting with Wikka Wiki. Don’t know if this is the right one, but “Bluehost.com”:http://bluehost.com has it as the first option. They don’t have mediawiki which is what Wikipedia uses. This one is OK except that it by default let’s anyone register and add content. Here…
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Continue reading →: Yael Naim
“Yael”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael_Naim is a great example of how a commercial can make a success. Her song New Soul was picked by Steve Jobs for the introductory Mac Book Air commercial and on the strength of digital sales, she became the first Israeli singer to be an American top 10. Cool!
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Continue reading →: American Double Miles
American Airlines is also offering lots of things like double miles and bonus for Chicago/Shanghai. You need to register, so go to http://www.aa.com/apps/netSAAver/ViewAAdvantageAirlineSpecials.jhtml and register away! And as a reminder United’s list is at http://www.united.com/page/middlepage/0,,1249,00.html and remember they have a double miles and most importantly, all flights on United Star…
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Continue reading →: iPhone battery life
Jon has seen really short life on his iPhone. My own iPhone drained in literally two hours yesterday. Here is some advice from “Apple”:http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html on the problem: * You can look at Settings/Usage to see the “Time since last full charge” to get an idea of whether the thing is…
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