Solving technology problems, one at a time
One of my Wacom tablets, an Intuos 3, has had a habit of freezing every so often, particularly when hovering. The cursor would simply stop moving till I clicked somewhere, usually a couple of times.
Continue readingWhen trying to scan with a Canon MX 880 scanner over wifi, you may receive this message: Cannot scan for these reasons: scanner is turned off USB cable is disconnected Please check and try again.
Continue readingI use a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet on my right hand for fine control, and a Kensington trackball on the left for big scrolling movements. The combination has helped preserve my wrists so far, since
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I have an early-2008 iMac which has served me pretty well for home use, but the hard drive finally died. Since replacing the drive on those machines is quite a chore, I brought it
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While experimenting with LDAP connections in Safari, errors like this one started popping up:
“The website _____ requires a client certificate”
A dialog would open, listing some old MobileMe certificates. Apparently if any old, expired or corrupt MobileMe certificates are still lodged in the Keychain, you may get this error sometimes. MobileMe has been disabled and signed out on my Mac for years, but the fact that the certs were still there caused the problem.
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The error “The document “filename.pdf” could not be exported as filename.pdf” started appearing in Safari on attempting to save PDFs from the browser.
The problem appears to be update-related: apparently a recent Acrobat update left an old file in the plugins directory that needs to be deleted.
Continue readingSometimes for whatever reason, Time Machine doesn’t auto-delete backups to make space for new ones. If you have this problem you might try getting it going again by manually deleting one or two of the oldest ones. Here’s how to safely do this, using the Time Machine interface.
Enter Time Machine and select the backup you want to delete.
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There have been a few interface updates to Amazon’s Kindle page since I last wrote about it, but there remains a strange lack of comprehension on the part of Amazon, that people might actually want to use their highlights. There is still no obvious way to export the data.
For those with Macs, I’ve come up with a workaround, and perhaps there is something similar on the PC side.
Continue readingiCloud looks great on paper, but the effects of choices you must make to enable it are not obvious, so, as a busy person with more than enough troubleshooting to do, I am shutting it off for now.
No replacement for iDisk yet.
I’m probably one of the few people that use iDisk, but I do use it. I store my Papers library on it, and a variety of assets I use at work and at home. It was a great little server, without any hassle. According to this technote, I have to save my files and get ready for it to disappear.
I never used the iWeb or MobileMe Gallery features, but it looks like all of that is disappearing also. iCloud is neither a hosting service, nor an unstructured file-server. Documents can be stored by apps, but probably not dragged there by you, as far as I can tell.
Continue readingBy default, Spotlight indexes local drives. However it is possible to force it to index networked AFP (Apple File Protocol) volumes as well.
Open Terminal, and type
sudo bash
It will ask for your password.
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