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What the F…?

Don’t panic that F… doesn’t stand for what you think it does, read on… So my wife ran into problems with her email a couple of days ago. She uses the latest version of Thunderbird for her email and our Internet provider is Rogers. Rogers, for what ever reason, uses Yahoo mail services. I certainly [...]

The Apple TV

( Apple andMind Cramp )

I know, but taxes can wait until I at least get this little rant off my chest.  As you may, or may not know, Apple is launching some new products this week – tomorrow to be precise. And the rumour mill is running wild on what the new products will be. The fact is Apple [...]

When is a Backup NOT a Backup…

( Apple andLinux andMind Cramp andWindows )

When it uses iTunes…. unfortunately Don’t get me wrong, iTunes does a great job of keeping track of music, pictures and any app’s that you may have installed from their store…. but it’s the little things that it ignores. You know, like configuration files! Here is the set up… I have an iPad and an [...]

A “Source” of Sadness

Actually it’s more like amazement and frustration than sadness…. and I’m talking about “The Source”. Or what used to be called, in Canada, Radio Shack. I did a quick drop in to the store today, to check out a piece of technology that they “used” to be good at. Door/proximity alarm systems…. they used to [...]

NVIDIA Problems with my ATI Graphics Card

( Linux andMind Cramp )

So once again I’ve proven to myself that Ubuntu – my favourite operating system STILL isn’t ready for prime time! I would have thought that after two years of getting things “better” they would have gotten some of the basic stuff right! I mean I ranted about problems with ATI Cards and Ubuntu TWO YEARS [...]

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