Our Xfinity router doesn’t cover our entire home. After about a year of screwing around with mesh and other extenders, I finally bit the bullet and purchased 2 Xfinity Pods. (I purchased direct because Amazon didn’t have the latest release of pods.) The pods work exactly as advertised, by that…
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Fix: My Apple Watch Isn’t Syncing With Audible Books
YOU are not crazy. You’ve followed the instructions on how to sync your Audible audiobooks to your Apple Watch, and you keep getting an error. Here is the fix. (Hat tip to Audible’s super-responsive support staff on Twitter for helping me out). 1. make sure your Watch OS, iPhone OS…
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How To Fix Memory Errors on Brother WIFI Laser Printers
UPDATE 11/5/21 — If you are using the IP Address of your printer, you may get NO RESPONSE from your printer after it has been working just fine. This is because the IP address number you used was re-assigned to another device on your network. Go to the physical printer….
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How to Troubleshoot Intermittent Connection Problems With a Wifi Printer
This technique solved my print problems on the Brother HL-L2340DW laser printer. However, I’m confident these steps have a good shot at working for any printer, on any computer. Step away from the baseball bat. One of the most frustrating experiences you can have with your computer is trying to get it…
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Age Appropriate iOS Games For Generation X
When Kevin Spacey in House of Cards started speaking so lovingly about Ada and the iOS game Monument Valley, I knew that my generation’s affinity for video games had absolutely become the norm. Those of us born in the late 60’s are really the first generation to have grown up…
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The Best Way to Securely Manage All of Your Website Passwords
No more post-it notes. No more forgotten or lost passwords. No more risking your data by using the same password for every site. No more insecurely saving your passwords inside your web browser. It’s time to tame the madness! If you use a web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari or… cough,…
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How to Add an Image to Your Email Signature Without it Appearing Like an Attachment
Updated August 5, 2021. This process was just validated on Apple Mail v. 11.5. The new path to the signature file is now: Library ——– > Mail —— > V5 ———> Maildata —– > Signatures Below I have added a code snippet, which uses a LinkedIn Badge. Follow the process…
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How to Make Your iPhone LED Light Flash to Alert You of Incoming Messages
While drinking beer and basically making nuisances of ourselves the other night I noticed my friend’s phone LED would flash each time he got a text, call or email. At first it looked like he had attached some 3rd party aftermarket bling to his phone. But it was not so….
The 5 iPad Games That Are Nearly as Addicting as Angry Birds
With over 71% of iPad owners playing games, it’s no wonder the top articles on my blog have to do with games on the iPad. So for the sake of research, for you, I have yet again taken one for the team. For the past month I’ve been playing games on…
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How To Protect Your Files On Dropbox
So cloud computing is all the rage. It has swooped in and lulled us en masse to upload ALL our digital stuff to it…up there…out there…somewhere barely on the fringes of our control. In what feels like no time at all we’ve abdicated physical containment of our precious information (the…
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How To Use A Bluetooth Keyboard With Two Devices
This issue came up for me when I purchased an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. The reason I splurged on the $70 device was because I needed a keyboard for my aging Macbook (the spacebar had become unstable), and I wanted a keyboard for my iPad. When I got the keyboard home,…
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Locate Your iPhone or iPad for FREE
Using Apple’s MobileMe to locate your iphone or ipad is now free. Has been for some time. If you have an iPhone 4, iPad, or 4th generation iPod touch (iOS 4.2 required), then what are you waiting for? If you’re afraid of black helicopters appearing over your house, or you…
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Apple App Store Opens on the Mac
Any of you Apple-owning iPhone or iPad users out there will appreciate the latest Mac OS X Update. That’s because the Mac App Store is now open for business. This means that you can now purchase, add and manage programs on your computer as easily as adding Apps to your…
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5 Adventure Games Worth Your Time on the iPad
It seems that adventure games are making a comeback due to the iPad. I once read that Myst marked the death of adventure games. Silly me, I thought it was Dragon’s Lair. Actually there is a huge difference between Myst and Dragon’s Lair. Myst takes hours of complex problem solving…
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10 iPad Apps You Shoulda Got In 2010
It’s just 2011 but my head (and my laptop’s power supply) are still stuck in 2010. So, before my laptop battery completely dies, here are my top iPad apps for 2010. Thanks Apple for redefining mobile computing (I don’t care what Zuckerberg says about it.) Index Card Index Card is…
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5 Reasons Why You Need To Plug Your iPad Into A Computer
Saying how great the iPad is, is so…September 2010. We’re well past that. However a growing number of people I’ve run into (and know personally) have never plugged their iPads into a computer. WTF? That’s like buying a frigerator and never putting food in it. Is iPad really supposed to be…
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Monitor Suddenly Turns Black & White
Some funny people like to play jokes on others by screwing with their computers. Personally, I think practical jokes that include someone’s computer are about as funny as getting your sneaks tied together and thrown up onto a telephone wire. However, goofy things happen to good people. A friend called…
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Parallels Vs. VMware
Ever since I scored a copy of Parallels during the MacHeist sale, I’ve been using it as my virtualization software on my Macbook, instead of VMWare. Now after six months of processor-blistering work I’ve had to dump Parallels and return to VMware. Virtualization software allows you to run Windows (or…
VMWare Reboot
For those times when NOTHING will restart your VMWare Win XP virtual machine. This is the equivalent of reaching around the back of your computer and pulling the power cord out of the wall. Do this: Under VMWare Settings, open the Virtual Machine drop down menu. Then hold down the…
Upgrading Your Black MacBook
Are you ready to put your Mac laptop on an iceberg and send it off to the great Apple store in the sky? Has it reached that time in its life when it’s just too old to crunch, flip, burn, batch and boot? If YOU are ready to buy a new…
Make your WordPress iphone Friendly
Wouldn’t it be nice if your blog could detect if it’s being visited by a mobile browser and reformat itself accordingly? Hitting any wordpress site from your iphone (or other touch-enabled) device can be a bit of a bummer for your readers. Without a doubt it’s better than the dark…
to iPad or not to iPad
The other day I was asked if I was going to buy an iPad. Here was my response. What I’m looking for now is an ebook reader…like the Kindle. The reading experience on the iPad looks to be better. The joojoo is another story altogether as that device used to…
