A few tips to synchronize contacts between iOS, MacOS, Gmail and Outlook. Use Google as a common thread across platforms and devices GOSyncMod is a standalone utility on Windows to synchronize contacts between Outlook and Gmail. On iOS and… Read more
After some dusting up of my laptop hard drive, I ended up with about 80 gigabytes to clean up from the Trashcan. Using the MacOS interface was taking a long time. A very … long.. time. As in more than six hours and barely a dent in the volume… Read more
It’s a familiar chain of installation: In order to install NLTK for a workshop about Natural Language Processing First you have to install Python, then install NLTK and dependencies, including Python Setup tools. Find out Numpy doesn’t… Read more
So here I was, ready to enjoy my brand new Intuos 5 graphic tablet (received as an early birthday present). It was unwrapped, software and drivers installed, plugged into my machine… and nothing. No LED light indicating activity. No cursor…. Read more
It’s official – video cards on a MacPro have a life span of about a year. A couple of days ago, my machine had another fit all to familiar : random crash with hyper-active fan turn on. A few days later, the issue happened again. I didn’t waste… Read more
I have gotten used to relying on accessing shared drives on my desktop machine from my laptop. Somehow, between OS upgrades, the default user name used to connect remotely changed from my usual account to ‘Guest’. I first started noticing… Read more
No random crash since the replacement of my video card a few months ago. Based on past observations, here is what I believe happened : 1- For some reason, the external USB drive I was using for my monthly offline snapshot backup caused random… Read more
My Macbook was sluggish, freezing for about two second every few minutes or so. It was especially bad with streaming videos. Turns out fragments of an old application (Desktoptopia) were causing a timout every few minutes. CleanApp took care… Read more
Twice in the last two days, I found my desktop unresponsive. The second time also had the fans running wildly. So far, everything points to something causing the CPU to overheat. Coincidentally, I noticed the latest version of Chrome getting stuck… Read more
Seemingly randomly, Spotlight indexing goes on and on…. seemingly forever. It was painful to hear the hard-drive cracking away in the background. A quick search on Apple’s suport forums gave me the solution – add your bootcamp drive / partition… Read more
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