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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

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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

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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

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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