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Upgrade Your Browser, Or You’ll Get a Virus and Die

In: Browsers|Humor|Opinion|Software|Windows

11 Jun 2010

In the hilarious 1990 movie “Crazy People”, Dudley Moore plays Emory Leeson, an advertising industry exec who is fed up with being, essentially, a professional liar.  He has a mental breakdown and produces a whole series of marketing campaigns based upon (gasp!) telling the truth!   Of course, he does it with humorous, dramatic flair. [...]

Dual Boot Mac / Windows? No, There’s a Better Way…

In: Mac|Opinion|Software|Tutorials & Explanations|Windows

22 May 2010

I recently received a call from a long-time client of mine asking for a little help in setting up a dual boot system so he could boot Windows on his iMac. Before delving into the “how to” process, I stopped and forced him to take a step back.  I asked “Why do you want to [...]

Why There’s No Flash on iPad / iPhone

In: iPad|iPhone|Software|Tutorials & Explanations|YouTube

13 May 2010

There’s a lot of confusion over this topic.  People keep wondering why there’s no Flash support on iPhones and iPads.  Considering that some 90% of the market is Windows-centric, I can understand the confusion.  I’ll try to explain here in non-technical, layman’s terms. Basically, it’s Apple’s position that Flash is buggy, crappy and a huge [...]

RIP iPhone OS 2.x

In: iPhone|Software

10 May 2010

When iPhone OS 3.0 came out, we were all excited. And with good reason — there were a ton of new features and capabilities. The problem is that for a company producing commercial entertainment software products, we could not just ignore the installed base of tens of millions of units still using 2.x. Because OS [...]

Fixing “Pages has quit unexpectedly”

In: Crash Fixes|iWork|Mac|Pages|Software|Tutorials & Explanations

7 May 2010

After installing iWork ’09 on my iMac, I clicked the icon for Pages, watched it load up, then uncerimoniously crash.  Lovely. After going ’round and ’round the mulberry bush with all of the basic first attempts, it became clear that this was going to require deeper digging. I started doing Google searches and went through [...]


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  • wais: DIDN’T work. Have been having this problem for months, have brought it to Apple service agent. new [...]
  • Lisa: Thanks -- this worked for me, at least this time. The problem crops up periodically for me, so I ho [...]
  • olivier: Thank you so much !!! worked perfectly and saved me lots of time [...]
  • Federica: THANK YOU SO MUCH! It worked for me! I did the same.. RESTART, RESTART, RESTART, installed every upd [...]
  • Louise: Thank you!! I had tried a restart, which didn't solve the problem. And I'm so glad I read this, and [...]

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