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Re: Can I share my daughter’s Apple TV through family sharing? - 4 weeks ago

We set up Apple family sharing with our adult daughter and it fits our needs perfectly. You can choose to enable or disable Purchase sharing so either the main iCloud account gets billed for all purchases or the individual buyer gets billed for their own purchases. Our daughter pays for her own purchases even though she shares our Apple TV, Music, iCloud. We also can't see each others iC

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Re: are there any browsers that will keep older OSs useable? - 2 months ago

Quotegabester Install linux. You might be surprised. If all you want is a modern, secure web browser, it'll get you there. Heck you should even be able to dual boot! If you've got 8 GB + RAM, run Linux Mint in a virtual machine with a modern browser for your banking.

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Re: Am I missing how to manage a large screen? - 3 months ago

QuoteC(-)ris QuoteTiangou Click the green dot at the upper-left of the window and hold the button down for a second or so. You'll have the option of selecting two windows to display side-by-side in full-screen mode. The first will be the one that aligns on the left and the second will align on the right. That is basically what I want, but I don't want them full screen. Still would like to se

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Re: Confession: I need to rethink my raspberry pi smart home setup - 3 months ago

My smartphone system has grown over the past 10 years as a hodgepodge of hubs, smart controllers, voice assistants, and it was a mess. About 3 years ago, I decided to slowly standardize on HomeKit, which allows everything to be controlled in one place. I run Homebridge on my rPi4 to bring my leftover non-compatible devices: 2 MyQ garages, Nest thermostat, and a sole Belkin light switch. Nex

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Re: Help, Ventura, so confused. . . - 3 months ago

Here are the steps to set up Home Sharing on your Mac and view the videos in the “Computers” app on the Apple TV: “ Configure a Mac with macOS Ventura: On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, click General in the sidebar, then click Sharing. Turn on Media Sharing, click the Info button , then select the Home Sharing checkbox, enter your Apple ID and password, and click

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Re: Have you ever experienced an aborted landing? - 4 months ago

QuoteGGD Quotemrbigstuff I guess a dog wandered onto the runway according to the pilot. Mexico. Speaking of dogs and Mexico, as I was walking through the terminal after getting off the plane, the name of one restaurant caught my eye as being unusual and wondering exactly what they serve. It was a Mexican restaurant called "The Little Chihuahua". Fantastic burritos!

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Re: Home automation? - 4 months ago

I recently got some Kasa Matter KP125M smart plug outlets. These are strictly Wi-Fi based. The key with Matter is that they will work simultaneously with any of the major smartphone platforms: Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google, Samsung. Currently I can tell Siri to turn on the Kasa outlet, and tell Alexa to turn it off. Before Matter this wasn't possible. Matter is at the application l

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Re: Need device to connect a "wired only" device to my wireless network - 5 months ago

How about a simpler solution: a USB wifi adapter for the PC? This one seems well rated: Or are you unable to modify the PC settings?

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Re: Cut the cord and it's tougher than I thought - 6 months ago

If you need background TV, try Pluto TV. Endless free TV channels over streaming. You can even try it here: https://pluto.tv/ There's an Apple TV app as well.

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Re: Really loving the screen on this iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) - 8 months ago

Studio Display is awesome. I know there were a lot of negative reviews, but it is great paired with my M1 MBP.

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Re: Mesh routers? - 8 months ago

Eero. Bought them before they were bought by Amazon 4 years ago. Still work great.

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Re: Looking into buying a new mac - I'm not ruling out intel chips - let me explain... - 9 months ago

I have a base 14" M1 MBP and the 27" Studio display. This setup replaced my 2017 27" iMac i7 and I don't miss the iMac at all. I'd agree with above recommended Mini + external SSD. I boot my MBP on the internal 512 GB SSD and have an external 4TB SSD for my media. Works great. I'll be happy I get to continue using the 27" studio display in 4 years when I upgrade to an M

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Re: Do you put different cards in your iPhone Wallet? - 9 months ago

Yes, I've used the following app to create custom iPhone Wallet cards by scanning barcodes. Very handy!

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Re: Woman who got locked out of her Apple account minutes after her iPhone was stolen and had $10,000 taken from her bank account says Apple was 'not helpful at all' - 9 months ago

Steps I took: I disabled Apple Cash and unlinked my connected bank account. For Cash App and Venmo, I set up a separate security PIN required to transfer Cash out. I also keep financial logins in 1password and not iCloud Keychain so there is a second password required to access those.

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Re: Best place for Tesla info and a couple questions - 9 months ago

They used to include the Mobile connector (charger) for free until last year, but you have to order it separately now. It will charge at either level 1 (~5 miles/hour) or level 2 (~30 miles/hour). It comes with both a standard 110 plug adapter or a 220v 14-50 plug adapter. I have charged at level 1 for the first 8 months and level 2 for 4 years now.. I had an electrician run a level 2 line

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Re: PayPal Account Hacked. Boo. - 10 months ago

Don't just change your password. Add an authenticator app as a 2 factor verification to secure all your accounts: I'd suggest an authenticator app over text verification. Do this for all your financial & important accounts. On that note, I'd recommend Authy as an authenticator app, but here's an article reviewing the major ones:

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Re: Quicken Deluxe + others For New and Old?? At Newegg - 1 year ago

Thanks! Re-upped for another year.

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Re: Quicken vs MoneyDance - 1 year ago

QuoteRobert M bhaveship, Please please please tell me if/when Quicken Inc finally restores the reconciliation report. That'll be huge relief for me and allow me to permanently make a switch from Quicken 2007 to a newer flavor of Quicken for a handful of accounts. Robert Sure, will do. Hopefully they continue to improve feature parity with the Windows version.

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Re: Quicken vs MoneyDance - 1 year ago

QuoteFritz If you enter a number into a transaction, or accidentally delete a split, the only way back is to close the txn & say "no" to save. Undo only works with a whole txn, not within. In current version of Quicken, undo 100% works to undo typing when entering a txn. You don't have to cancel out the transaction.

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Re: Quicken vs MoneyDance - 1 year ago

I've been a longtime user of Quicken and shifted to the current annual subscription version about 3 years ago. The reports are still fairly basic so maybe it'll fit your needs. Of course you can save your customized reports based on filters applied etc. I hope they one day update the investment tracking capabilities and taxation etc. I've been very satisfied with the rate of updates &

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Re: strong, firm hand?!....Apple releases Studio Display firmware update.... - 1 year ago

QuoteWHiiP Quotebhaveshp Thanks! Had to reboot the Mac to apply this update to the Display. Sigh Otherwise, loving the display. So, did you have this audio issue? Did this update fix the problem? I’ve had the garbled audio happen once, about two months ago, and fixed it by pulling the power plug. Dunno, but hopefully that is fixed.

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Re: strong, firm hand?!....Apple releases Studio Display firmware update.... - 1 year ago

Thanks! Had to reboot the Mac to apply this update to the Display. Sigh Otherwise, loving the display.

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Re: Windows XP on Mac mini M1? - 1 year ago

Possible? Yes. Practical? Probably not as emulation is pretty slow rather than virtualization. You might want try Cross Over: Here's how to:

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Re: Where's the scam here? - 1 year ago

Could it be this Google Voice verification code scam?

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Re: Will we/I have to update IOS to use Turbotax next year? - 1 year ago

I'd recommend test installing Monterey on an external SSD using OCLP which looks like it'll work fine on your machine. Read the following: That would definitely be good enough to run Turbotax, but maybe it'll give a couple of years of added use of the MBP.

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Re: AirDrop troubleshooting at wits end - 1 year ago

Just yesterday I AirDropped a DVD video file VTS.VOB (Remember those!) from a White MacBook 2008 running Lion OS X 10.7.5 to my MBP running Monterey 12.2. Worked perfectly. Somehow my wife keeps finding old DVDs that must be archived. Sigh.

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Re: Anyone still actively using a Mac with a pre-OS X operating system? - 1 year ago

Here's a prebuilt QEMU image for running Mac OS 9.2 on either Apple Silicon or Intel if that helps:

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Re: Welcome back, Newt! - 1 year ago

Welcome back!

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Re: Convert VHS tapes to digital - 1 year ago

Quotejh I converted to digital several VCR tapes a while back. Here's my how to. Your going to need a device to convert the tape to digital. You have half of the solution I used by having a VCR player. I used the Elgato Video Capture - Digitize Video for Mac, PC or iPad (USB 2.0). I had an older converter but it did not work when I upgraded my OS. The Elgato worked fine with my system (Si

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Re: Late, late, late, etc. tax filing - 2020 using TurboTax Premier - 1 year ago

You can try using the online Adobe PDF to Excel tool for free and see if you can then massage the data into the format you need. You do have to upload the PDF and create an account. I tested uploading my Vanguard 2020 1099-B and it created a spreadsheet perfectly.

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