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Category Archive: Technology

Q&A: Spelling colour correctly

Pages seems stuck using American spelling. How can I change it to use British English instead?

May 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Crash trash

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The computing sense of crash lacks onomatopœa, is gross hyperbole, and is far too widely encompassing to be meaningful.

May 24, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Lost keychain

I have lost my default keychain, which disappeared from Keychain Access. Where can I find it?

May 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

Making My PowerPoint

She was reduced to giving her half-hour talk whilst pointing at successive thumbnails in PowerPoint’s overview. Members of the audience tucked into flasks of coffee, or rose and strode out.

May 23, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

-14: Establishing a dial-up connection to your ISP (in 2001)

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Step-by-step instructions for setting up a dial-up Internet connection under Mac OS 8 or 9.

May 22, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Pointless purges

Although my Mac has 6 GB of memory, I have had to use the purge command with depressing frequency since OS X 10.6, before quitting anything, particularly Safari.

May 22, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Encrypt and destroy

Q I started transferring files from my iMac running OS X 10.6.8 to an encrypted memory stick, when […]

May 22, 2015 Macs, Technology

Thinking outside the books

It is hard to understand why traditional publishers are so recalcitrant in making electronic editions worth their comparatively high prices.

May 22, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Q&A: Disabled key

I seem to have inadvertently hit a combination of keys that has disabled the upper case letter V on my keyboard. How can I reset that?

May 21, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: FireWire, eSATA, or what?

Which would be better to hitch my FireWire 800 external drives to a new iMac: eSATA to Thunderbolt, FireWire to USB 3, or what?

May 21, 2015 Macs, Technology

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