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Author: hoakley

Reviving the hopeless Mac: what to try before visiting the Genius Bar

What to do when your Mac won’t start up, and is acting dead, or at least mortally wounded.

December 14, 2015 Macs, Technology

The Eclectic Light flickers: my iMac might be dead

You know, from soon after getting up, that some days are not going to be easy. Yesterday was […]

December 13, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Q&A: Bluetooth headphones

They work with my iPad, disconnect from my MacBook Pro, and don’t work at all from my old Mac Pro. Are they duff?

December 13, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: El Capitan keeps beachballing

After a difficult install, El Capitan nows spends much of the time beach balling. How can I fix it?

December 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

Storyspace 3: using guards to structure reading

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Guard links, only followed when conditions are met, allow us to structure the reading of a non-fiction book.

December 12, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Whatever happened to QuickTime?

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It may have become QTKit, but QuickTime is still going strong, and now 24 years old.

December 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Removing duplicate tracks in iTunes

Why is Automator so poor at a simple task like removing duplicate tracks from iTunes?

December 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

Trees in the landscape: 10. Thomas Gainsborough and cloud canopies

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He intended to be a landscape painter, and was co-founder of the British school of landscape painting. A major influence of Constable and others.

December 11, 2015 General, Painting

Internet-enabled toys, kids, and their safety

As a parent, threats to children now seem out of your control. Should you let them have that Internet-enabled Barbie doll, or remain a Luddite?

December 11, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: iTunes with a mind of its own

Whenever I plug a phono lead into my MacBook’s audio output, iTunes fires up and starts playing. How can I stop it?

December 10, 2015 Macs, Technology

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