Rebooting iOS (Phone)

My phone just stopped (iPhone 4S).  It was switched recently from my personal carrier account to my corporate carrier account.  So, when it stopped working I contacted the company help desk. Nature of problem: the buttons don’t turn on the phone.  Holding down the power button does not bring up the restart slider.  Plugging in […]

My Apple Life

Here’s the inventory: 20 inch iMac G5 (2005) 30G iPod (2006) 15 inch Mac Book Pro (2011), employer supplied iPhone 4S (2011) 21 inch iMac (2012) 11 inch Mac Book Air (2012) I don’t think we intended to collect all this stuff.  The original G5 purchase was unusual after a series of home-builts and a […]

Moshi FireWire 800 to 400 Adapter

In the move from the old Mac Book Pro to the new Mac Book Pro, the Firewire 400 port was eliminated as part of the normal technology progress of Apple products.  This creates the problem of having two Firewire 400 external hard drives I use for music files that I can’t plug into the new […]

Mac Swap

My work computer was switched yesterday. The Mac Book Pro 17 inch was replaced with a Mac Book Pro 15 inch. The new one is current MBP specs; 4 G RAM, Intel i5 chip running at 2.4 GHz, 500 G hard drive, “matte” LCD/PED display. The old one was backlit LCD, Intel 1.8 GHz Duo […]

Holy Expanding Battery!

My Mac Book Pro is coming up on three years old, and I noticed a few weeks ago that it was not holding as long a charge as it used to.  This is not foreign territory for laptop users; battery chemistry degrades over time and you don’t notice it until it drops to 80% or […]