Solving technology problems, one at a time
The Facetime camera on my 2013 iMac has a habit of turning off abruptly during Zoom meetings. Not only does the video go black, but Zoom and all other video-using apps no longer see the
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I have a couple of old battery-powered Magic Mice, which both sometimes suffer from the same problem: they get disconnected, then when I attempt to re-pair the affected mouse, the Mac tells me: “Couldn’t connect
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After I installed Eclipse on a new iMac, I used it for several days and everything seemed OK. Then, suddenly, it stopped launching. No bouncing icon in the dock, no splash screen, just no response
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Mac’s Launchpad has a bug where when you try to click an application icon, instead of opening the app, it moves as if you were dragging it, not clicking it, then remains on the Desktop
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When building a new online course, we noticed that the “x” was missing from the jQuery UI dialog Close button in the upper right corner of the title bar. The image below shows the close
Continue readingI’ve used a 32G SD card for several years with no problem. This morning I tried to delete some folders from it and found that there was not “Move to Trash” selection in the menu.
Continue readingOn attempting to bind a new SSL certificate to a website in IIS7, if you get the error A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated …there are several workarounds
Continue readingI’ve always liked the streamlined workflow of iPhoto for rapid color correcting, cropping and straightening my photos before I upload them to Flickr. So I was dismayed to find after upgrading to version 9 that it
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The other day I tried to load a URL in Safari that has worked dozens of times before, but now Safari prevented it from opening entirely, instead presenting this dialog: The website “[my requested URL]”
Continue readingOne 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.
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