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Month: July 2015

Who was first: 1 robust timestamping of documents

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Proving the date of origin of anything electronic – for patent or copyright purposes, perhaps – has been well nigh impossible. But that has now changed.

July 18, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Hard decisions

There is now a better way to estimate likely hard disk life than Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).

July 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Landscape Visions: 2 Landscape contained

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Because these landscape elements are constrained within the overall work, the artist has complete control over them, something reflected in their reading too. Such cameo landscapes are never awe-inspiring, but subjugate to the whole.

July 17, 2015 Painting

Q&A: Wild Trackpad

I have added a wireless Magic Trackpad, and sometimes the pointer goes wild, shooting all over the screen. How can I fix it?

July 17, 2015 Macs, Technology

Crash crash

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Whenever the bug occurred, it set the screen into a steady roll. The only way out was to pull down a menu command, no mean feat when pointer, menu bar and the whole caboodle are rolling past your eyes.

July 17, 2015 Macs, Technology

Let me in: authentication and authorisation

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Access controls require confirmation of who you are, and verification that you are permitted to use the system or services.

July 16, 2015 Macs, Technology

Adobe Flash Player prior to 18.0.0.209 now blocked by OS X

As of this morning, and as had been expected, the security mechanism in OS X now blocks all […]

July 16, 2015 Macs, Technology

Why I will dance on Flash’s grave

Announcing Flash’s deathdate is but the first in a tough and painful road to restoring confidence in Adobe and its products.

July 16, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Storing libraries off the boot disk

How can I make Photos, iTunes, and Mail save their files to an external hard drive?

July 16, 2015 Macs, Technology

Time and tide wait for no Mac

What a mess the UK has made of tidal prediction: two different agencies, each charging us for information that we paid for in our taxes.

July 16, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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