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How to Change your Email Password & How To Enter your new Password into Apple Mail

January 24, 2012

It is a good idea to change your email password every now & again. In many ways, control of your email account is the key to a lot of other things, such as recovering a ‘forgotten’ website password. So you want to make sure that your email password is not easily guessed either by humans [...]

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Stop the beeping! How to de-Beep UPS battery back ups

December 8, 2011

With the blustery winter weather comes the occasional power outage. Most of which are just a few seconds. I’m a well prepared techie, so I have 8 UPS Battery Back Ups in house to protect; my computer, another computer, database server, cordless phone, alarm clock, internet modem, router, wireless router, Tivo, etc. All very good, [...]

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Protected: Password Post Example

December 8, 2011

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Dump your bank – Love a Credit Union

September 28, 2011

After years of being abused by my bank I fired them and I couldn’t be happier about it.  The bank was into charging lots of fees, giving me a hard time about everything (even refusing ordinary deposits), and paying a teeny tiny amount of interest. Even though I had several long term and active accounts [...]

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Fix Palm HotSync – Mac OS X Palm Desktop Conduit Manager

September 26, 2011

After certain software updates and/or Mac OS X installs your Palm HotSync may broken. You might have had to Force Quit it because it seems completely stuck. Don’t despair! Here is a fix. * First off, know that Palm HotSync DOES WORK with Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard and 10.6.x Snow Leopard. Yes, this really [...]

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What is the best Web Browser for an old Mac?

July 8, 2011

What is the best Web Browser for an old Mac? Opera 9.64 is the best you can get… for anyone stuck on a very OLD Mac still running OSX 10.3.9 Panther. I know that because I had an injury earlier this year that kept me flat on my back for 2 weeks. The challenge was [...]

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Send Plain Text email from Apple Mail

July 5, 2011

Sometimes you want to send a plain text email. Perhaps you belong to an email list that requires it, or you are sending to people who are using software that prefers plain text. Perhaps you just want to send smaller, lighter emails twice as fast in a more compatible fashion. Rich Text emails are usually [...]

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Import Software Serial Numbers into 1Password from FileMaker Pro or text file

June 16, 2011

I love 1Password! It is a really great Password manager, and in a recent version they added support for storing all your software serial numbers & registrations. I’ve been using a simple FileMaker Pro database for that, so I want to import all of it into 1Password. The problem begins when you notice that 1Password [...]

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Let Smart Mailboxes in Apple Mail sort your mail for you

June 2, 2011

Email has gotten out of control. You probably receive a lot of it, and maybe so much that you don’t even want to wade through the mess. So much email that you occasionally miss a message from a friend or relative, leaving it unread amidst the sea of low priority commercial email that may not [...]

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Easy Morse Code DeCoding chart

April 4, 2011

It is easy to find a chart that shows the translation from alphabet to Morse code. And those are easy to use when you want to EnCode or translate words into Morse code. The regular chart is optimized for translation in this direction because it is sorted alphabetically. But what happens when you want to [...]

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