Noteworthy day
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Category: Mac
‘This disk is used for Time Machine backups’
“This disk is used for Time Machine backups” “OS X cannot be installed on ‘Macintosh HD’” Those are the error messages I encountered today when I tried to install the new Mavericks OS X on my early 2008 MacBook Pro (it took more than 3 hours to download, but I’ve been having connectivity issues recently). … Continue reading ‘This disk is used for Time Machine backups’
Laptop is home
Yay! Got my left arm (laptop) back today. Been working on catching up on email. Not feeling up to much else today, but I’m back in the game. Man, you have no idea how much you’ll miss something like this until it’s gone. Sure, I had the desktop in the back room, but it’s just … Continue reading Laptop is home
Laptop update
Took my laptop to the Apple store Wednesday and it was quite the experience. Practically SRO when I walked in. What is this? A special sale? No, I was told, normal for the store. About half the people appeared to be blue-shirted Apple employees. Had a great conversation with the young man at the Genius … Continue reading Laptop update
Sick computer
Well, my laptop seems to have had a stroke last night while I was watching TV. I closed it for a few hours and when I opened it the screen had gone black. Fan still running, still warm, light on the front still on, but a solid black screen. I’m on the big box now, … Continue reading Sick computer
Grandma fixes Lion’s pinch-zoom function in Firefox
Mac users who’ve recently installed OS X Lion (Ver. 10.7) may have noticed the touchpad’s “pinch-zoom” function no longer works in Firefox. (It still works in Chrome, but not in Firefox.) Distressing, since this was one of the Mac functions I’d very quickly come to love. I prowled around a few forums and discovered that … Continue reading Grandma fixes Lion’s pinch-zoom function in Firefox