I have a joint dropbox I share with my wife, and a personal dropbox account for professional docs. These articles, followed, allowed running two separate, easily identifiable instances of Dropbox on a MAC. Article from LifeHacker The Terran I used the preferences to set one icon as black and white, leaving the second colored…
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Mountain Lion and “Save As…”
Sigh. OS X Mountain Lion is so good in so many ways, and yet loses. One gain was the return of "Save As…". To access this in a menu you hold down the option key and mouse over the menu. Under File, Save As… magically reappears. But the leyboard shortcut is NOT Command+Shift+S. Instead it…
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chflags nohidden ~/Library/ Inside the Library folder are Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content and Mobile Documents (local storage for iCloud). I was intrigued by iA Writer – an app that runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac OSX, a minimal writing environment. It saves documents by default to iCloud, thus sharing between devices… Being the experienced (working…
Continue ReadingDodoCASE revisited – truly 5 stars.
I recently got the iPad 2 16 GB wifi only. The least expensive iPad tablet. I recalled that when the first iPad came out there was a bamboo moleskine-like case touted. I filed it in the back of my mind to come back to. Reading a Wired article about funding startups, I came across…
Continue ReadingDeleting a wireless password that is saved (OSX)
An across-the-board password change wreaks havoc with cached wireless passwords. I had no issue with a stock Macbook Air – I deleted the wireless network and then reconnected to the private locked network entering a username and password. My company Macbook wouldn't show or allow me to delete the network and therefore I couldn't delete…
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I have a MacBook Air with a 64GB SSD. Quick, light, powerful, a really nice little unit. But – tight on space. I was recently upgrading to Mountain Lion and I went through to free up space – I was down to 10 GB free, and I felt that was tight. I deleted as much…
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I deleted my MobileMe account within "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" in setting on my iPhone 4. A couple of hours later I got a call from a number in Waltham, MA. It was my wife. I wondered where she was that she was using a landline or borrowing a cell phone, because the number showed up,…
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I have a 10.1" Dell Netbook that I love – except… Except that it has an Atom processor and even with an upgrade to 2GB RAM, every once in a while it just chugs, spinning and processing for minutes, unable to respond at all. It has a 600 x 1028 screen – it turns out,…
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