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Continue reading →: Apple: Watch 26 incredible battery drain unpair and start overThere’s a lot written now about how watch 26 and 26.1 cause incredible battery drain. This has happened to me on both my Series 7 and Ultra version 1. At one point, the ultra lasted just 4 hours. They both have 85% battery performance left, and I tried all the…
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Continue reading →: Pen: 40 year old Parker GTE cartridge ISO-12575-2 G2Well I discovered in my mom and dad’s stuff a GTE labeled pen. It must be at least 40 years old and I help but want to use it again. But what is the cartridge. Well a little sleuthing helps. It is ¼ inch in diameter and 3 7/8 inch…
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Continue reading →: mac: Anyoyo TB502Pro vs Hagibis ASM2464PDI got the Hagibis early this year and it has rocked. It is a Thunderbolt 4 drive and with the very fast Samsung 990 Pro, it can do 3GBps read and write easily. Saturating the 40Gbps Thunderbolt 4. It was about $120, but now you can get it for $60…
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Continue reading →: iOS: iMessage cannot activate error
This one drive me crazy. We are on iOS 26.1 and did an eSIM swap from Lightspeed (T-mobile) to Warp (Verizon) We did this because last month when we went to Kenya, t-mobile support 5GB of free roaming. But they actually killed that mid trip although you can get a…
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Continue reading →: mac: Apple Music “lost” my CD filesWhen trying to get some music for a personal video, I discovered that many of the songs that I had previously uploaded to Apple Music were “lost”, so I was actually using the Apple Music subscription. I had been using Apple Music to “store” these files. One of the great…
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Continue reading →: mac: Keyboard Input and Character Viewer lostOK, I’m not sure what is up with my installation, but it used to be that if I hit “Caps Lock” twice, it would switch input mode,s and then there was another command to bring up the emoji viewer. All of this broke with the MacOS 26 Tahoe upgrade. The…
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Continue reading →: mac: Tahoe Unsigned App tap dance and reset of third party menubar buried in System SettingsWell, sometimes there is an intentional obscuring of “unsigned” apps (like Stats). Before Tahoe MacOS 26, you could just right-click and choose to open anyway. But now it’s a pretty unintuitive thing, you have to fail trying to run it and then go to System Settings and click a button:…
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Continue reading →: hike: Lessons from Climbing at AltitudeOK, we normally do day hikes or short camping trips, but we’ve never done a long five-day hike from 4-5km up (yes, that’s 16,000 feet in altitude). learned a lot about what it takes to get up there, and here are some tips if you are similarly inclined, but here…
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Continue reading →: music: Background Music for Final Cut ProOK, here is one frustrating thing: if you are trying to do a nice video (for friends) and want to get a nice soundtrack, the copy protection with Apple Music makes it impossible to add a track for your movie in Final Cut Pro. Looking at what you actually get,…
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Continue reading →: mac: Fix Tahoe menubar missing 3rd party appsWell, this is a frustrating one. You boot up your Mac, and suddenly ALL yourthird-party menu bar icons have vanished. 1Password? Gone. AlDente? Disappeared.MonitorControl? Nowhere to be found. The apps are running (you can see them in Activity Monitor), but the menu bar is acting like they don’t exist. The…
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