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Month: August 2015

Q&A: Which font to help the dyslexic?

Should we be using the Comic Sans font to improve accessibility for the dyslexic?

August 8, 2015 Macs, Technology

This CARROT doesn’t taste right

What do you think of a weather app which tells you that it is “a big fan of Jack the Ripper’s work”?

August 8, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Missing network connection

Whenever my MacBook Pro starts up, it looks for a wired ethernet connection. How can I get it to use Wi-Fi from the start?

August 7, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: How should I deal with DNS failures?

What can I do to deal with the threat to Internet name servers?

August 7, 2015 Macs, Technology

How to use AppleScript to automate image processing

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Developing a droplet to scale and crop images, complete with source code in AppleScript.

August 7, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Is Apple Lossless audio compression perfect?

I read that Apple Lossless audio compression is not perfect, but that XLD is more faithful. Is that true?

August 6, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Can I trust modern external hard drives?

What should I use as an archive if I cannot trust modern external hard drives?

August 6, 2015 Macs, Technology

Progress barred from Windows 10?

Microsoft’s Windows 10 update troubleshooter could not tell me whether my computer was eligible for the free Windows 10 upgrade.

August 6, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Objective-See TaskExplorer: see what’s good and bad

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Even if you don’t like the idea of apps blocking what they deem to be suspicious events, TaskExplorer gives you the ability to check out what is going on, and what looks suspicious.

August 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Accessing the hard drive in a broken iMac

How can we recover documents from an old iMac with a graphics adaptor failure?

August 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

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