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Re: A fun Neal Stephenson book? "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O" - 3 days ago

Snow Crash remains one of the most exciting spellbinding books I've ever read. thanks for the heads up on this.

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I May Be The Last To Know This Mac Trick™ - 4 days ago

You can quickly pause all notifications while video conferencing/screensharing or showing something to a colleague with OPTION + Click on that 3-row dot-dash icon that sits in the farthest upper right corner of the menu bar. (Sierra 10.12.x at least). The 3-row icon will gray out. I do multiple video conference trainings daily, and those private notification popups can definitely distract

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Re: CleanMyMac? good bad indifferent? - 5 days ago

Quotedecay to remove junk like this Malwarebytes rocks. Great for removing the tiny browser-based malware. Highly recommended. CleanMyMac removes gigs (sometimes 50 and more gigs) of mail attachments, multiple backups in apps, etc. I wouldn't pay for it, since knowing where these files are means it can be done manually and fairly quickly. Also, I remove mail attachments all the time in Appl

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Re: CleanMyMac? good bad indifferent? - 6 days ago

Quotesamintx ...Another question: Preferences? where are they in El Cap? I went to Utility and there is just FIRST AID. When you run that does it do the preferences? Preferences can be found in the two Library folders: the /Library on the first level of your HD folder, and the ~/Library found on the first level of your User folder. Both will have a folder called Preferences, and you'll find the

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Re: Pages question (moving from ancient '09 Pages to latest version) - 12 days ago

QuoteArticle Accelerator For character spacing,... Those hot keys are great, AA, thanks for pointing them out.

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Re: Any keystroke logger utility? - 14 days ago

thank you, Norse. I'm PM'ing you to ask for more details. This looks like it could work for my needs.

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Any keystroke logger utility? - 14 days ago

Is anyone know of a good type recorder, aka keystroke logger? Some tool that remembers what you've typed for the past few hours. I used to use one built into Spell Catcher. Man, what a powerful text expander utility, but the developer passed away a number of years back. I hear that keystroke loggers can be used for nefarious ways, understood. But as a writer, I found it extremely helpful in

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Re: Pages question (moving from ancient '09 Pages to latest version) - 15 days ago

Quotesydric I tried to switch to the new version but went back to ‘09 Pages because it just does more. ... Ha, well after a few hours of playing with it today, I'm doing the same. Even its latest rev still is missing a half dozen important functions. The one new feature I saw in Pages was its much smarter Edit Mask function. I will give thumbs up to the new Keynote, for one reason: Magic

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Pages question (moving from ancient '09 Pages to latest version) - 15 days ago

Finally trying to shift from Pages '09 to the latest 6.3 version. Do any of you Pages aficionados know if there's a hidden 'slider' for text and character spacing, and paragraph before/after spacing in the new Pages? So far, I'm only see the tiny boxes where you can either hit that up/down arrow, or manually type in a number. Criminy, I hope this isn't one of the missing features.

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Re: First SSD failure, for me anyhow - 18 days ago

Same here. Had a backup SSD just not record anything. Finally just purchased another drive, and everything worked well.

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Looking for iPhone device that tracks a speaker on stage - 21 days ago

Looking for a way to film a speaker on a stage with an iPhone and tripod, that tracks and follows the speaker as the move around the stage. I'm looking at a device called the Swivl Personal Cameraman which looks amazing, but I'm wondering if anyone has used something similar.

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Re: Easiest way to accept occasional credit card payment - 21 days ago

thanks all. Square it is.

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Easiest way to accept occasional credit card payment - 21 days ago

I occasionally need to accept one-off credit card payments from friends overseas, who aren't signed up for Paypal. What is currently an easy way to run someone's credit card or accept money in some simple fashion? One trick I've used for an Aussie friend is to simply have him purchase an Amazon e-gift card, which given the amount I buy on Amazon, it's like getting cash. But I no longe

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Re: Craigslist Response, do you respond to these questions when selling? - 22 days ago

Quotehal But if you really want to sell the thing, reply. A scammer is soon going to reveal himself, but I've had several exchanges that I WAS SURE was a scammer only to eventually settle on a price and a meeting time and finally, a sale. That's a really good point. I've experienced the same.

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Re: Craigslist Response, do you respond to these questions when selling? - 23 days ago

They don't *sound* bogus. They are bogus. This is a very common ploy on CraigsList. As others have noted: in oddly phrased grammatically incorrect English scripts, they go through a series of texts or emails that end up telling you that they will send a check for much more than the price, which you pay back in the form of a Western Union transfer. They don't care about the item, they'll give

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Re: Is there a reason why most motorcycle engines exhaust in front? - 28 days ago

QuoteNewtonMP2100 ....to vex you.....??? I was going to say 'heat' but then realized that Newton's answer was even more accurate.

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Re: a Religious question - 28 days ago

What a fascinating question. If you've ever gone hiking or deep camping, or traveled way out there through say Mali or Laos, or been on the ocean for weeks at a time between islands, it's quite possible to live and actually thrive without email and phone. I get that it's prudent to let family and close colleagues know that you'll be offline for x days. But the experience can be quite beneficial.

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Re: L.A. just doesn't care about NFL Football. Chargers can't fill 27k soccer stadium, Rams fare no better - 4 weeks ago

At prices of $150 minimum per seat (excluding food, parking, travel), empty seats sure make sense to me. Imagine the cost for a couple, or a family of 4.

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Glitch: Spaces activates, even when turned off. - 4 weeks ago

My wife's MBA (10.12.6) has an odd behavior. If she double clicks an app icon in her dock, the entire Desktop screen shifts to the left/right and the application opens on another Desktop (with another Desktop Background). But all of her Mission Control panel (System Preferences) is turned off. Everything is unchecked, and all her keystroke and hot corners are set to null (the - selection). Is

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How to Open Any App in Sierra - 5 weeks ago

In Sierra and High Sierra, there is no longer an default option in Security & Privacy for "Anywhere" in the "Allow apps downloaded from" section. With a simple Terminal command, you can bring the "Anywhere" option back. This page shows how: Works like a charm: And yes, of course, most people shouldn't do this.

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Mac doesn't remember Sound Preferences FIX! - 5 weeks ago

Had this issue for months, where upon restart, my Mac Pro would default back to its dinky Internal Speakers. Tried a variety of fixes, deletions, PRAMd to hell and back, but finally found some Terminal magic, suggested by blogger (Drago at Webfix Studio) who found this fix: Deleted the Audio folder located at /Library/Preferences/ and create a new one as root in the terminal: sudo mkdir /L

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Re: Tim Cook: how long will he last? - 5 weeks ago

I'm sure he's a very good man and amazing friend. But I do cringe watching and listening to Tim Cook give presentations. He's just the oddest choice for doing these events.

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Re: New MacBook Pro in da house! - 5 weeks ago

Nice, Buck. Congrats.

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Re: Hurricane check-in thread - 6 weeks ago

Made the decision to play it safe. Drove 13 hours yesterday up to Tallahassee to stay with a friend here (normally a 4-hour trip), and we are safe and sound. We’ll see Sunday if we have to head further north to Alaska or the North Pole.

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Re: Hurricane check-in thread - 6 weeks ago

Leaving in an hour out of our new Sarasota digs to a friend's in Tallahassee.

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TV show Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton : 2 thumbs up - 6 weeks ago

If you love good acting, don't miss Goliath, a short 8-show series that came out on Amazon Prime movies last year. We're just getting around to seeing it, and it's A+ must-watch phenomenal. Powerful story, great characters. We're only half way through, but two thumbs up. It's also the first time I've ever used my iPad to view movies through Apple TV. Works flawless and great definition. I hea

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Re: I hate slow deaths. - 7 weeks ago

Death pays all debts. Death takes no bribes. (first is Shakespeare, second is Ben Franklin) EDIT: and since this is MacResource: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invent

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Re: Photos app question about searching - 7 weeks ago

QuotePeterW Isn’t what is in the screenshot exactly what you are asking for? I wasn't clear, sorry. In Photos, if I do a search for "val," there is no way to bring up all 7 categories at one time. I have to click 7 times and review each category separately, to find the picture I'm looking for. In this example, I can't remember if "val" was in the name, title, etc. So what

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Photos app question about searching - 7 weeks ago

I finally switched from iPhoto to Photo app. My biggest question is how to do searches. Currently, if I do a search for a word, Photos does what the attached screenshot shows. Is there anyway to tell it to simply bring up anything related to the search, regardless if it's in the name, Place, filename, Title, location, or anything else. I just want to review, on one screen, all possible images

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Re: I hate slow deaths. - 8 weeks ago

I've been dying ever so slowly since '56, I totally know what you mean.

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