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Transition to LastPass for Safari: Replacing the legacy Mac desktop app
We’re replacing the LastPass Password Manager (Mac desktop app) with LastPass for Safari, a modern, secure, and optimized solution for managing your passwords on Mac.
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FYI, I do NOT use Safari.
Argh!
I’ll be transitioning to BITWARDEN, which supports all platforms.
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SOFTWARE: Found a strange software bug but don’t know who to blame
I downloaded my EKG from MYCHART into my MACOSX Sequoia 15.5 using FIREFOX 138.0.3 (aarch64).
No problem.
Went to attach it to an email. Problem. File’s not there?
Fist time in a long time I was befuddled.
Repeat the process.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Rita Mae Brown
Same result.
Restart. Rinse and repeat. Same result.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Rita Mae Brown
Try SAFARI version 18.5 (20621.2.5.11.8)
Rinse and repeat. Same result.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting diffe rent results.” — attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Rita Mae Brown
Since I echo all my stuff into DROPBOX 224.4.4811 and the file is there as expected.
Attached it to my email and away it goes.
Now really confused.
Go back to FINDER version 15.5 and … …
<drum roll>
It’s there.
Argh!
I don’t know who to blame.
“It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.” — Sir Winston Churchill, in a radio broadcast in October 1939
I guess I’ll never know!
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Seems like PROXPN is “ghosting”?
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Earl John S. (Evernote Help and Learning)
Apr 9, 2021, 10:04 PDT
Hi there,
Thank you for contacting Evernote Support.
I understand that you are unable to find an option to sort the contents of a note, and if it is not possible, you want to know why it isn’t.
In Evernote, you can sort your notes but not its contents. This feature is not yet built in the Evernote app. However, thank you for sharing this good idea with us. It’s super valuable in helping us build the best Evernote we can. I’ve gone ahead and made note of this for our development team. While we can’t commit to getting all feature requests into the product, we do rely on our community to tell us what they’d like to see in the future. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other ideas.
Your ideas and feedbacks are incredibly valuable to us so we built a new “Share Feedback” button into the app to make it quick and easy for you to send us your thoughts. If you are using a Mac, you can find the “Share feedback” by clicking the “Help > Share feedback” in the menu bar (Please see attached image). The comments go directly to our product team. I encourage you to use the button to submit your feedbacks and ideas.
I hope this helps.
Please message us again if you have any outstanding concerns.
Best Regards,
Earl John S.
Customer Support Representative
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Seems like a simple straight forward function to have?
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According to NASA, the aerospace company didn’t perform a full ‘end-to-end’ integration test of the software designed to automate maneuvers after the craft is launched into space.
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Boeing is not having a good 12 months.
Someone cut one corner too many … again.
Wonder how many heads will roll?
Will this be like an auditor having Enron on their resume?
Could be career equivalent of the “kiss of death”.
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2019-Nov-09
Shocking Proof How Google Censors Health News
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/11/joseph-mercola/shocking-proof-how-google-censors-health-news/
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Have to switch from “Doctor Google” to “Doctor Duck Duck Go”?
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2019-Oct-07
Recently went to the Octoberfest at:
Deutscher Club of Clark 787 Featherbed Ln, Clark, New Jersey 07066, United States
///ranged.after.accent
It was mobbed. More than ususal. And, once again, we had trouble finding our firends.
If only, they were what3words Users!
They could have told me EXACTLY where on the property they were.
///making.vest.doctor (or https://what3words.com/making.vest.doctor)
And we would have linked up without the searching.
And, in case your wondering, cell phones were unusable because of poor signal and the loud music.
Argh!
It’s a great tool that EVERYONE should have for that one time when you really need it.
imho
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Microsoft Word — wonder how I can do … …
… …
… … I want a block of text in two places in a document and “live”.
Meaning if I update either, then the change is reflected in both places.
Any one have an idea how to do it?
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https://www.google.com/photos/scan/
“Get the photo scanner from the future”
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OK, I’m a sucker for apps, phones, and all technology gadgets and tchotchkes (NB: I’ve been criticized all to often for using big and or strange words so now I am linking to their meaning. OK?) (NB: A “gadget” becomes a “tchotchke” when it: (a) doesn’t work as advertised; (b) breaks; (c) gets purplanted by a better gadget; or (d) I lose a part of it — usually the power supply. I have an old digital video camera waiting for me to find the power cord to it.)
I read about the app somewhere — I’d have thought Google would let me know about it … … personally — and downloaded it BECAUSE I have a ton of old framed pictures that I was considering HOW to digitize. It’d be a lot work to take them out of the frame — if they’d survive that — scan them and put them back.
So this holiday, I tried it on two framed pictures.
Judge for yourself the results.
and
Very impressive, no?
Anyway, I’m impressed.
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Apple Wallet (referred to as simply Wallet) is an application in Apple’s iOS (previously known as Passbook in iOS 6 to iOS 8) that allows users to store coupons, boarding passes, event tickets, store cards and, starting with iOS 8.1, credit cards, loyalty cards, and debit cards via Apple Pay.
Wallet (application) – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallet_(application)
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As far as I can determine, it only supports SOME cards.
It does Walgreens, but not CVS.
Argh!
Am I missing something?
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AND TDBANK locks up your phone until you verify the use.
Argh!
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Lafayette CSC was easiest.
USAA was easier.
But I couldn’t store my keene library card.
Argh!
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2016-Nov-30
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How do I insert date and time in a document
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Argh!
It was so easy in Word.
Guess I’ll have to try it in pages.
Argh!
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Dear XXXX@me.com
Your Mail Outgoing and Incoming is blocked. Reason : Daily Mail Bounce Count Exceeds Limit [ Bounce count=10 ]
Please follow the link below to unblock yourself:
Update Now
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This is an automated message, please do not reply to this mail
Mac Team 2016
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The link points to http://inkallpatours.com/cgi/index.html
How can Apple design such poor software that it doesn’t highlight an obvious forgery?
Argh!
While it had little chance of fooling me — a quick email from gmail and visa versa proved it “lame” — I wonder how many it does catch?
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/editorial/?source=psp
It took a few minutes to install the PortableApps Platform, and several more to install six apps including ClamWin, Firefox, GIMP, KeePass, Skype, and Stellarium. To start, we launched the heavyweight GIMP without a hitch, while each additional app opened just as quickly. The idea of carrying apps around on a USB seems plausible but the idea of loading the PortableApps Platform to Dropbox, or the like, seems like an even better idea. So, without further adieu, consider trying the PortableApps Platform, especially if you’ve been thinking about the best way to take your apps for a joy ride.
Here is a detailed breakdown of PortableApps’ features:
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Always handy for when you have a windoze box to work on.
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Man accidentally ‘deletes his entire company’ with one line of bad code‘
I feel sorry to say that your company is now essentially dead,’ one person on a coding forum advised Marco Marsala
Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin 15 minutes ago
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A man appears to have deleted his entire company with one mistaken piece of code.
By accidentally telling his computer to delete everything in his servers, hosting provider Marco Marsala has seemingly removed all trace of his company and the websites that he looks after for his customers.
Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts that he was now stuck after having accidentally run destructive code on his own computers. But far from advising them how to fix it, most experts informed him that he had just accidentally deleted the data of his company and its clients, and in so doing had probably destroyed his entire company with just one line of code.
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So where are your backups?
I don’t care what type of User you are. I don’t care if you are a “corporate drone”. I don’t care if you just “play games”. I don’t care if you just use your computer or your phone for notes.
Where are your backups?
When the computer flames, the service provider goes bust, or the Gooferment shuts you down … …
… … … what will you do?
“Corporate drones” think they are protected by a corporate system. What happens if it just loses YOUR specific work? How’s your annual appraisal going to look?
“Gamers” can just rebut all their games and replay for hours to get where they are today.
“Note takers” can just “forget” every note they’ve taken.
Argh!
Wake up people.
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http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-add-emergency-contact-info-to-your-iphone-lock-screen/
Add emergency-contact info to your iPhone lock screen
A simple tweak to your existing wallpaper might just save your life — or at least help recover a lost phone.
by Rick Broida @cheapskateblog / December 17, 20149:07 AM PST
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The reason we password-protect our phones is simple: If it gets stolen, the thief can’t access all our data. But there’s a flipside: If your phone is lost, or you’ve been injured and someone is trying to call your family, there’s no way to access your ICE (In Case of Emergency) info.
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I did it to mine. What about you?
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I happened to click on the IOS IPHONE “HEALTH” app. Just out of curiosity.
It can interface with other apps to record steps for example.
But you can’t input BP.
That seems to be a glaring oversight. And, something I would have used.
Argh!
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Found a confusing “use case” with iMessage on the MAC OS X:
Sent two texts this morning, one worked and one failed repeatedly.
Figured out why it was failing, duh.
I text from the mac because I like the full keyboard. I text X and Y every morning and night. (“I’m alive … still!”)
This morning X’s went through to her iPhone as usual, but Y’s didn’t.
Then I realized iMessage uses the iPhone to text Y with SMS. And my iPhone was out of power. And, the MAC version of iMessage just reports: “not sent”.
Which technically is true, but it should say something like “no response from your Iphone, dummy”. Argh!
Strike one for a poor design. Or is that “a feature”?
Argh!
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It’s still illegal to rip DVD and Blu-ray discs for personal use
Jailbreaking of mobile phones, tablets, wearables, and smart TVs get DMCA exemption.
by David Kravets – Oct 27, 2015 3:58pm EDT
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Because there is no encryption on CD music discs, however, owners of them are free to make backup copies or shift the tracks to a digital format under the concept of fair use. “These results continue to show the flaws in the law and the process of the DMCA. Even though the law clearly allows consumers to move their media between their personal devices, the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyrights allow the smallest mote of uncertainty to keep a common-sense activity illegal,” said Sherwin Siy, the vice president for legal affairs at Public Knowledge in Washington, DC.
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I am STILL <synonym for having produced urine output> off.
I have tons of “content” and I can not easily, quickly, or legally transform it to something useable.
Argh!
I PAID for it. But I can’t “have” it.
That’s just wrong.
The Law is an idiot.
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http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/10/fighting-to-keep-abandoned-games-dead/?ncid=rss_truncated
Publishers are fighting to keep abandoned games dead
Jessica Conditt | @jessconditt | April 10th 2015 at 3:23 pm
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit group that defends civil liberties in the digital world, is facing off against the Entertainment Software Association, the organization that represents most major video game publishers in the US. The EFF wants to allow players to put abandoned games back online and has asked the US Copyright Office for an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This would allow players to legally modify the code of online games that are no longer supported by publishers, in the hope of reconnecting these titles to new, third-party servers. This includes games like Battlefield 1942, Star Wars: Battlefront, SOCOM 4, Resistance: Fall of Man and Mario Kart Wii. Many modern games rely on servers to function; if Activision pulled the plug on Destiny, for example, even its single-player campaign would disappear, since the entire game needs an online connection.
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I’ve often thought that ABANDONWARE and Out-of-print-books should be in the “public domain”.
When we, as a society, seek to encourage writing by means of the “copy right”, then it’s is incumbent on the writer to keep his copyrighted published work available. When a book is “out of print”, the copyright should lapse or suspend.
Argh!
It’s like the content creator reneges on their side of the bargain.
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I have been playing with wikis.
I use two Website Service Providers.
(One for “production” and the other for “fun”.)
So I slapped up a MEDIAWIKI on WSP#1 and in short order it was being used by Chinese hackers.
Nuked it. And still trying to get WSP#1 to unsuspend the account.
So i put up MEDIAWIKI on WSP#2 and in short order it was being used by some other hackers.
Nuked it.
So I put up TIKI WIKI which looks like it installs in more secure start up mode.
It doesn’t install correctly.
Argh!
Depending upon how I make out with WSP#1 and WSP#2, I’ll reveal the identities at later date.
YMMV
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MICROSOFT EXPLORER
By Andy Patrizio
How does a Windows bug go undetected for 19 years?
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By now you have likely heard of the 19-year-old Windows bug found by IBM late last week. If not, here’s the tl;dr version of it: IBM found a vulnerability in VBScript, Microsoft’s alternative to JavaScript which was introduced in Internet Explorer 3.0 and ran on Windows 95. Even today, the bug is impervious to the sandboxing features in Internet Explorer 11
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“New” isn’t completely “new”?
Argh!
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SOFTWARE: MAC OSX Yosemite version 10.10 performance sucks
2014-Oct-20
Get a ton of spinning lollypops every time I do a task switch or just at random times.
Guess this is how they force me to buy new hardware?
Argh!
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2014-Oct-21
After several reboots, one reboot was different.
I had lollypops so bad made it unusable.
I force quit everything. Powered down.
Waited a half inning.
Power up.
It did something different.
A green ball with a progress bar.
A minute or two.
Logon screen presents.
Seems to be running better.
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2014-Oct-20
Get a ton of spinning lollypops every time I do a task switch or just at random times.
Guess this is how they force me to buy new hardware?
Argh!
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2014-Oct-21
After several reboots, one reboot was different.
I had lollypops so bad made it unusable.
I force quit everything. Powered down.
Waited a half inning.
Power up.
It did something different.
A green ball with a progress bar.
A minute or two.
Logon screen presents.
Seems to be running better.
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The IOS8 upgrade carries a “HEALTH” app to the first screen.
(Even if I didn’t want it. At least “TIPS” went on the last page.)
It’s OBVIOUSLY a placeholder.
The select an emergency contact feature doesn’t work.
And it does NOT have a provenance, versioning, or linkage to other “health” data sources.
Not Apple’s best work.
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Chrome Remote Desktop
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Access other computers or allow another user to access your computer securely over the Internet.
Chrome Remote Desktop allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook. Computers can be made available on an short-term basis for scenarios such as ad hoc remote support, or on a more long-term basis for remote access to your applications and files. All connections are fully secured.
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As always, “TPIR” (http://www.priceisright.com/), and YMMV!
But I like it.
I’m recommending it.
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https://sourceforge.net/blog/june-2014-project-of-the-month-freeplane/
The Community Choice Project of the Month (POTM) for June is Freeplane, which is an application that supports mind mapping and analyzing information contained in mind maps. Congratulations to the Freeplane project on being voted as the June 2014 Community Choice POTM.
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I love “mind mapping”.
I really don’t understand why it doesn’t become more popular.
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