On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Sunday Plans

2022-12-04T03:50:19Z

I've got a ByMUG meeting tomorrow, so I'll be in the house for that. Bedding as laundry, maybe, too. Or that might wait another week. Depends on what the rest of the household needs to do in the morning.

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ByMUG Meeting in Progress Today

2020-12-06T18:11:54Z

From ByMUG.ca:

December 6, 2020 Meeting Information

For December’s meeting will be full of great stuff! Marc will talk about CIRA DNS and their other offerings, Dave will demo how he uses NetNewsWire, Tom will show how he manages Photos and Family data, then we’ll talk about the new Mac mini, MacBook Air, and 13” MacBook Pro, the M1 chip, Big Sur, Hazel 5, and Pixelmator Pro 2.

We will also try to answer any other iOS/Mac-related questions as best as we can.
The meeting takes place on Sunday, December 6, 2020, at 1 p.m. and we will send the link & instructions out via the mailing list about fifteen minutes before 1pm on Sunday.

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COMPUTERS: iWork and Address Book/Contacts

2020-07-27T20:14:27Z

Numbers '08 has crashed three times on me today. I'd like to update to something more compatible with High Sierra but the App Store isn't carrying that version. If there's a legal fix for the issue, I'd be glad to know of it. Will keep looking.

(And I just found out: Keynote crashes whenever I try to launch it.)

And my address book files imported successfully into Contacts...but have since been reduced to two contacts. Not sure how that happened, and not happy about it.

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MAC/TECH: Intuos 4 Needs New "Pen"

2020-02-28T00:19:29Z

I managed, just a few minutes ago at this writing, to accidentally dismantle the pen that came with my current tablet. It's a PTK-640, which I bought about ten years ago. So...looking for a solution that preferably doesn't entail recycling the rest of the tablet or anything else deemed financially intolerable for someone between day jobs.

Update 1: There may be a solution in hand by Saturday. Stay tuned.

Update 2: The solution is in hand. Thanks be to the Ottawa Comic Jam network of artists.

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Mac OS Question

2018-01-26T01:35:03Z

I suppose my old iBook might be able to handle 32-bit apps...?

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1249583

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Lost History: the Mac Group

2017-01-26T20:38:27Z

The first place that ever sold me Mac gear was the Mac Group. Back then, they were a second-story walkup in an office building off of Gladstone, near the city's traffic management centre and the O-Train tracks. I still have that machine.

They're apparently gone now. Three moves later, and the website's gone, the phone number is "this cellular number is currently unassigned" and their Facebook page has been left fallow for two years, apparently.

Last I visited them, they were in a second-story walk-up off of Nelson near the Rideau Library.

I miss them.

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