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NPR segment on net fraud ends with small business security advice. Bad advice. Which shows banks must share liability.
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Yahoo has worked perfectly as my EmailRequiredToRegisterAndGetSPam account for at least 10 years. Thank you Yahoo!
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Is Craigslist officially dead? I want autopsy report.
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Is there really no way in OmniOutliner 3 to move outline sections around by mouse select and drag? Such a strange application…
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FeelingVirtuous: created my periodic local archive copy of Contacts, Google Stuff (CloudPull), Blogger blogs (top 3), Facebook, Simplenote (via nvAlt), Pinboard (JSON & XML).
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Replaced broken doorbell push button. Original prob 25 yo. Replacement is a perfect copy with far inferior materials. Unlikely to last 1-2 years. Just in case you believe in perfect markets.
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Apple’s upgrade program requires trade-in of 1yo iPhone. What are they going to do with all the 1 yo devices?
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The more I use iOS 8 audiobooks the more persuaded I am that this is Apple’s most comprehensively broken product since MacTCP 1.0.
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When open .docx in TextEdit the edit/save, TextEdit saves .docx without complaint. Is there a (secret) terminal command to make TextEdit use .docx when creating new files? …
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Standard web Pub (blog) and *Proprietary* Notification:Sub (Fb/Twit) are doing well …
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When you replace the chain on a 20yo bike with original cassette, you really should replace the cassette as well.
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Sanford antimicrobial therapy medical text has had 45 editions (one a year). Amazing record.
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Ported *another* H2O number to AT&T. This time I screwed up port, needed AT&T porting specialist to fix. She spent 30 minutes on hold with H2O, called me back when done. Post-port no data! I forgot to delete H2O profile. Good now.
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Forgot to set spotlight category sort order on new Mac. Default order kinda sucks. In magical world these prefs would be stored in iCloud…
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Friend 4s dead, no backup since iTunes became iextra-incomprehensible. (iCloud backup overflow.)
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Found iPhone in woods, no ID at all. Siri “who’s phone is this” worked.
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OmniOutliner 3 had undocumented support for importing MORE 3.1 files. OO 4 doesn’t. No surprise, except they actually tried to keep the feature. Was too hard.
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Undo delete with Gmail and iOS8/Yosemite Mail isn’t working for me. Anyone else notice this?
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Would be nice if, when one invoked Air Drop, El Cap would say “This isn’t supported on your 6 year old Mac. Buy a new one.” Instead of, you know, just sitting there and wasting time like Yosemite.
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If you bounce around long enough your run into things that should have changed the world, but didn’t. Like Professor Steve Yelon’s approach to education [www.amazon.com]. Random world! He put the core of it on a wallet card in 90s. #b — http://bit.ly/1hRuAti
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I wonder if ICD-10-CM (US version of old WHO disease classification) will be the proverbial breaking point for American physicians.
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What year will printed directions start including coordinates? So annoying to trace directions on Google when I just want coordinates.
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Google Groups “About Groups” page shows RSS feeds. They don’t work on our closed membership group however, looking at URL I suspect they never did. Doubt Google is going to fix this now :-).
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Any alternatives to NYT? I think they’ve broken their feeds.
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Anyone using Reeder with NYT? Today in Reeder article display fails. Can open in Safari.
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Typical that a few weeks after Emily and I commit to using Quicken/Mac for personal finance the product is euthanized.
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Doc note: a monthly prescribing reference registration unleashes spam hellfire. Use a spam account.
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So both Fidelity and Vanguard web sites getting very slow … chat overwhelmed… Can’t do account creation on Vanguard … Ahh, this feels familiar.
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On the internet everyone knows you are a dog. Also breed, collar size, and that poop eating habit.
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File/folder hierarchy changes made when in context of Finder Search are very confusing. Try it sometime. You can drag and drop to folder, but search will still show files at root — because UI is a mix of flat search and hierarchy.
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I haven’t appreciated the genius of Google Doc, Sheets, Drive. Docs/Sheet behave like iOS apps, no files/folders, mass solution. Add Drive get files/folders/power solution. Accident? Planned? Emergent? Credit due. #b
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Special needs employment relies on magical middle-managers who, largely unrelated to their job, have a saintly temperament and extreme coaching skills. Which is why it is unlikely and precarious.
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The real trick in parenting (and coaching) is to turn utter failure into something useful. Special needs parents get a lot of practice.
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Shimano has fallen. Two pairs of new Shimano pedals failed in past 3 months.
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Google’s bicycle directions mean I can never love Apple maps.
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I wonder if a President Trump would resemble Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.
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The world needs a skijoring harness for keel chest (not flat chest) dogs.
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Google Maps and Facebook (no video) are both using much more data on our mobi plan. Just us?
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By moving apps into iOS and OS X Apple avoids 1-2 star ratings. #happyaccident
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iPad demise articles that mention schools without discussion of the problems with the reading experience aren’t worth reading. OTOH Apple’s disinterest in reading is deserves more attention.
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Contaqs.app for iOS is still updated regularly, and adds real power to Contacts.app. Now far faster to navigate. Edit Contact-Group relationships. Geolocation. Smart lists. Uses Contacts database.
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Oookaayy. Despite the iBooks UI and Apple’s documentation [support.apple.com] there are no AudioBooks in iCloudLand [www.engadget.com]. WTF Apple, can you take a pill or something? Old school iTunes all the way.
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iBooks, iCloud and audiobooks: despite unchecking ‘hide iCloud books’ in the esoteric Collections screen, my recently purchased Audiobooks don’t show. Occult DRM problem? Bug? Apple being a PITA? Can’t find any help on this one.
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AnotherWordWeNeed: SoftwareTooCleverToBeUseful. Ex: Doing NLP, guessing wrong, and discarding string I needed.
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Apple Contacts “auto-link” is a PITA. That is all.
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Facebook has removed the play video only on wifi setting. It’s now using a very large amount of data. We’ve disabled Facebook on cellular.
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Found in simplenote, 1993: “Genie online service … charges .40 an outgoing message, incoming free, cost $2./mo” No spam back then.
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@clarkgoble Caught Appgigo ToDo Cloud/ToDo.app red handed at a sync error. Task completed in one, open in other. I’ve had my suspicions…
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Safari is much better than Chrome at recalling and entering my credentials at web sites. I’d never heard that.
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