Jonny Quinlan reviews Usage Widget for iOS. I tell the sad tale of how we gave Steve’s mom a new Mac mini and almost lost both of her email accounts forever. Don’t like your bills? Call the service provider and ask them to lower the bill. How my father taught me to tie something to […]
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Mac mini: Happiness, Disaster, Relief
This weekend Steve and I traveled to see his parents to upgrade his mom from a white MacBook to a brand shiny new Mac mini. I love working with Merlee because she’s so clever and quick. She has her own way of doing things like any of us but she really listens to me before […]
Continue readingSometimes, All You Have to Do is Ask
Do you have a recurring bill going on that just seems like it’s more than it should be? I would encourage you to call the company and simply ask them to lower the price. You would think that this wouldn’t work but I can swear that it does. Sometimes you do have to play a […]
Continue readingTie Something To It First
As many of you know, my dad was my hero. He was a mechanical engineer, and I tagged after him in the garage, the shop and outside, pretty much anywhere he would let me follow. One my earliest memories is sitting on a very tall stool in his shop and toppling right over to the […]
Continue reading#495 Mac Mini Decisions, Command-C, Puffin Browser, GamerGate with Guy and Chris
I give a rundown of how much fun we’re having in the Google Plus community for the NosillaCastaways these days – join us at podfeet.com/googleplus. Kevin in Connecticut tells us how he came back to the fold choosing a new Mac Mini for his re-entry from Windows. In a nice segue I explain why we […]
Continue readingChoosing the Right Mac Mini
I’ve mentioned a few times that Steve and I have an aging Mac Mini connected to our family room entertainment center. It’s a 2009 Mac Mini with a screaming Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 whole GB of RAM. I have to admit that we haven’t used it too much over the years, but […]
Continue readingHow to Export LastPass Vault and Import to 1Password
A while back I published a post about how to get your LastPass data out of your vault and move it over to 1Password. The process is a little bit weird to follow so I created a tutorial on it and published it today. You can find it at the link in the shownotes or […]
Continue readingPlay Flash on the iPad Using the Puffin Browser
On Monday night my daughter Lindsay called me with an emergency. She and her husband Nolan were out at a restaurant and had planned to do their Fantasy Basketball draft on ESPN using their iPads and iPhones. When they went to the ESPN website on their iOS devices, they were faced with a Flash interface. […]
Continue readingCommand-C Lets You Copy and Paste Between iOS and OSX
As you know I’m good buddies with the SMR podcast guys, Robb, Rod and Chris. Their communication tool of choice is WhatsApp, mostly because it works on Android, Windows Phone and iOS so there’s never a compatibility problem. It’s fine for a chat client, supports text, audio, video, and photos. There’s one huge problem with […]
Continue reading#494 ChromeSafe, Partial Solar Eclipse, ApplePay, Unprotected WiFi, Taming the Terminal Part 23a Networks
How to protect Chrome on OS X from POODLE vulnerability using Dorothy’s Tutorial. Capturing imagery of a partial solar eclipse – Steve’s video, my photo. A little rocky trying to use ApplePay for the first time, but it worked in the end. Unprotected wifi fun thanks to Andy sending in the link to medium.com and […]
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