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iPhone Voicemail Notifications Not Working – Fixed!

Posted on February 15, 2012 by admin

I recently discovered my voicemail notifications were not working on my iPhone 3GS. I spent an hour or two on the phone with ATT support who were very pleasant and helpful but no luck. They raised my issue to the … Continue reading →

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iCal Annoyance with adding new events

Posted on November 8, 2011 by admin

I have been annoyed with the latest iCal update. I use the month view and add events directly there but it defaults to “all day” and when I change that I get an 8 hour event. I do think these … Continue reading →

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DoctorMac in Irvington, NY Rocks!

Posted on October 19, 2011 by admin

Living in Westchester NY means there are a few Apple stores within 10 minutes but having a local independent Mac shop is great. When they do repairs Apple refuses to do, it doesn’t really get better than that. I cracked … Continue reading →

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jquery tablesorter column types and add on parser solution

Posted on September 30, 2011 by admin

Tablesorter is a brilliant jQuery plugin for allowing HTML table to be sorted within the browser via javascript. The biggest issue I have is the lack of documentation of the data types to force columns to be sorted correctly. So … Continue reading →

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QR Codes – those funky bar codes

Posted on September 21, 2011 by admin

I have noticed recently the new, well not that new, QR (square) bar codes. We were at Hershey Park and they had them on posters while we stood in line for rides. I took a picture hoping to decipher later, … Continue reading →

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2011 27″ iMac Issues with SSD Reinstall

Posted on August 2, 2011 by admin

Recently got to service a super machine, top of the line 27 inch iMac. Users got screwed up on initial install so we decided to wipe and reinstall. Not so simple. The included media was unable to write files to … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Ubuntu and network issues

Posted on April 29, 2011 by admin

If you are upgrading from ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 on parallels (aka a mac) and have a networking issue like network not found, I suggest installing the latest Parallels tools. Solved my issue.

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Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 upgrade issue

Posted on April 19, 2011 by admin

I recently upgraded a ubuntu server from 9.10 to 10.04. I was receiving errors and warning due to old packages that had not been removed. In order to get rid of these I ran the following on the command line. … Continue reading →

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Teaching Spamassassin About Recent Spam

Posted on February 12, 2011 by admin

If you have the technical abilities and happen to have access to your IMAP spam folder via the command line you can teach spamassassin about what is spam. sa-learn –spam <spam folder path> This can greatly decrease the spam you … Continue reading →

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Slicehost Rocks

Posted on February 12, 2011 by admin

I have used Slicehost for several years now and have never had a problem. Just today I upgraded one virtual machine I manage there and ran into an issue on reboot. Their chat was quick and immediately pointed me to … Continue reading →

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