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Re: Painfully slow Mail 8.2 - 6 months ago

Is it an Apple email account (@mac, @me, @icloud)? Log in to iCloud.com and see how your mail loads there. FWIW, I find Airmail easy but with a lot of folders it can be involved. If you just get emails, read/reply, and then delete/archive, you might want to stick with something more basic like Spark, which is solid on both macOS and iOS.

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Re: Apple TV: remote delay - 6 months ago

Quotespace-time because it had 30% when I decided to check, and it happened to work just fine of course. Last night I don't think it was the remote, I think the Apple TV was getting "beach-balls"; you know like in OS X when system is slow and you get beach-balls, probably something similar was happening and causing delays, but of course there was no beach ball on the screen. I'm assum

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Re: Painfully slow Mail 8.2 - 6 months ago

I got so fed up with Apple's own Mail -- a program I used to trumpet to people all the time as what I always came back to -- about a system or two back (I'm on Sierra, 10.12.3, now) that I eschewed it altogether and am now using Airmail on both my Mac and my iPhone/iPad. (this is after trying a score of others, including Spark, Canary, PostBox, MailMate, and Unibox (which is a very close second i

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Re: Apple TV: remote delay - 6 months ago

I'm surprised you didn't get an on-screen alert that your battery was running low, but IIRC that comes up at the "Remote has 20% battery power left" level. I used mine for something like a year before I saw the reminder, and it gets heavy usage in the house. I have an extended USB cable near the TV (for charging iPhone/iPad when watching) so from time to time I just plug the remo

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Re: What Happened to my UPS? - 6 months ago

I started nixing APC and going with CyberPower models at first solely b'c of the mute feature. I've come to like them more (design and functionality) but that Mute button was the foot-in-the-door for me and the companies I work with.

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Re: What Happened to my UPS? - 6 months ago

So happy for models that feature either no chirping or at least a silence feature.

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Re: Need to replace my 42" Vizio LED... Help. - 6 months ago

FWIW; I replaced a Samsung (damaged in lightning strike) with a Sharp (as it had 4 HDMI inputs and the Samsungs in my price ranger only had 2); after a year (read: after warranty ended) the Sharp has been a bunch of trouble. Routinely the HDMI would just stop working and would have to be reset to factory standards to get it to work again. Worse, though, is that weird bright white stars ap

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Re: Ringing ears... - 6 months ago

I've had hearing damage in both ears with tinnitus as lagniappe since a car accident when I was in grade school (speeding school bus ran a light, hopped a curb, and landed on top of our car). The tinnitus and damaged hearing are untreatable, per se. Mine sounds like a whine more than white noise -- white noise to me is static, like from a noise generator or non-channel TV noise (as hal said).

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Re: Hold put on credit card with balances under $100 - 6 months ago

> Anybody heard of such a thing? It's pretty common. All the stations around here (central AR) have labels about this situation on the pumps. The solution is what cbelt said (prepay a set amount) or to use your debit card/PIN.

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Re: Problem with Brother printer - 6 months ago

last time I had a problem with my brother inkjet

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Re: Daylight savings this weekend? - 6 months ago

Yes, it's happily true. (More sunshine in the evening = more things I can do with my kids and family after work.)

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Re: Question about "wireless" printers... - 6 months ago

Out of left field; just read this long but pretty thorough review at Gadgeteer re/the Epson WorkForce ET-16500 AIO EcoTank. No personal experience with this one, just happened to read it before I came to MRF and saw your post.

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Re: Low Frills TV: 40" Westinghouse 1080p $120 - 6 months ago

I would love to go back in time to the 90s and show myself an ad for TVs today.

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Re: If you're sticking with the Airport Extreme ecosystem, QuickerTek would like to show you something - 6 months ago

It's also good to know a bit and do research ahead of when an item will be needed, given that you'll likely need to upgrade equipment at some point.

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Re: What is the best ePub reader? - 6 months ago

Quotefreeradical I do not have an iPad, and my phone is a 4s, so this will be for reading on a real computer. I do have an old 3rd gen b&w Kindle, which I rarely use anymore. So I guess it's Calibre. The desktop version of iBooks also handles ePub. I've read a number of books on my MacBook Pro while it looks like I'm doing research.

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Re: Need Software for Your Spacecraft? - 6 months ago

I know a few guys who will be happy to hear that.

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Re: What is the best ePub reader? - 6 months ago

Honestly, I've found iBooks on my iPad handles ePubs best. Download the ePub, drag it over to iBooks, boom. Done. (I think there's a setting you have to do in order to sync your desktop version of iBooks to your iPad version) Beyond that; download it on your Mac and then email it to yourself, and open it from within your Mail program on your iPad, and it should launch into iBooks.

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Re: all's WELLS, that ends WELLS?!....'Time After Time' [ H.G. Wells ] debuTTs this Sunday.... - 6 months ago

Absolutely loved the original film; a regular re-watch of mine:

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Re: "Disk not ejected properly" - 6 months ago

When Steve first demo'd Macs with Firewire, one of the things he demonstrated was how you could unplug a Firewire drive during a large transfer and then plug it in a few moments later and it would pick up where it left off. Apparently that didn't work out. While you shouldn't do it, and I always tell people they should never do it, I've not personally had an issue with it. Now, go back a

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If you're sticking with the Airport Extreme ecosystem, QuickerTek would like to show you something - 6 months ago

Article at AppleInsider (link) gives some background. I'll be moving on (looking at you, eero) if Apple has indeed gotten out of that market, but QuickerTek has some upgrades and options if you want to stick with the venerable Apple Airport Extreme. An aside: Separated at birth?

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Re: Good mid-range color laser for low-volume office printing? - 6 months ago

> Have you had good luck with non-name-brand or remanufactured toner? Have not used non-brand in over a decade. Last time I did it all but ruined the printer (granted, that was an inkjet) so I swore it off entirely. Am often tempted to.

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Re: Good mid-range color laser for low-volume office printing? - 6 months ago

I've had excellent luck with the HP M252dw. (Here's HP's page on it.) Home office environment, but it heavily utilized by me, wife, and three kids (college and HS ages); everyone is printing all the time. Downside: small paper tray capacity. And since I sit near it, I'm the one that always has to fill it, eh?

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Re: Best place for magazine subscriptions? Also: which ones? - 6 months ago

I only have a couple of subscriptions still going; MacWorld and MacLife, both through Zinio.

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Re: Kubo and the Two String $4.99 iTunes in HD - 6 months ago

Future reference: get the app CheapCharts and add items to your wish list there, and then set so you get notifications when something on your wish list goes on sale (you can even set lower thresholds, so you only see pop ups, say, when something falls below $5). I haven't paid more than $4.99 for any movie purchases in a while.

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Re: IOC don't pester me, Budapest withdraws from summer Olympic consideration - 6 months ago

QuoteWill Collier The smart thing would be to establish one permanent Olympic site on each continent that can be used for other things between Games, and rotate among them. But there's not nearly enough graft for the IOC or local politicians that way, so... I think that comes up in the media each time a debacle like Rio occurs, but it's not going to happen, IMO. Too much infighting and not eno

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Re: Lost my wallet this morning... - 6 months ago

Quoterjmacs But dude, seriously? Three phones? That can't be cost-efficient... I know a person can always set up forwarding and all that, but I'm surprised we've not gotten to a point where there's an app on the iPhone that would allow for multiple lines to be channeled to it, visually distinct. For instance; my wife has a separate cell phone for her karate school with the number forwarded

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Re: Format an external HDr from MacBook - 6 months ago

Ditto JEBB; completely forgot about that.

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Re: IOC don't pester me, Budapest withdraws from summer Olympic consideration - 6 months ago

The Olympics are a losing proposition in the modern world, unfortunately. They sell it on the promise of jobs and revenue and it just winds up being a "multiple large charges on your credit card after a lost weekend" kind of situation for the cities involved. Basically what happened with the World's Fairs in the US years & years ago; what happened in Brazil is a good example of

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Re: Lost my wallet this morning... - 6 months ago

I dropped my VISA card out on a jogging trail last weekend; by the time I got back home there was a message on Facebook from a guy saying he had found a credit card with a name similar to mine on it. Confirmed a few things, and, within an hour I got the card back. Diogenes, indeed. If you're on FB, go check Messages and see if you have any requests/unsolicited (I forget what they call tha

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Re: Apple Shuffle (Audioflood) for Pool entertainment - 6 months ago

Interesting; didn't know these existed. (Amazon link)

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