Macs used to be the only computers that did not need filename extensions; now they have conformed, but iOS lacks them. Why?
Category Archive: Technology
I want an external drive to support Time Machine backups of my iMac, which currently has 805 GB free space on its 1 TB internal drive. How big should this backup disk be?
Celebrating the bicentenaries of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew with a couple of concordance tools.
Today I had an anguished phone call from a dear friend who, just a few days ago, succumbed to a phishing attack. He was electronically mugged, and no one cares.
This morning I nearly took a selfie and posted it to How-Old.net to see if it would cope with ages over 100. And I put it all down to Adobe.
Contacts launches but hangs when I try to use it.
What happens when you ask for electronic publishing tools? You end up with products which bind you into constraints, charge royalties, or have to be leased.
Everywhere that you go you need user names, passwords, and other means of proving your identity. In OS X and iOS these are normally stored in a keychain.
When I double-clicked on my iPhoto library, Photos appeared to be converting it fine until it reached 71%, when it crashed. Is my master library too large to convert?
If the designers of Go and Rust had read the work of Sapir and Whorf, they would have realised that to accomplish real change in programming requires greater change in the language used.
The Eclectic Light Company 