Gordon's Tech

[...] weirder. In an app.net discussion @sirshannon sent me a screenshot with Videos as a cellular data option. I looked at my phone, seemed to flicker, and there it was. I figured I was just [...]

[...] Apple’s settings for controlling use of cellular data are a weird mess. A mess because they’re scattered over many screens, and weird because one of [...]

[...] iOS: When enabling iMessage get directed to turn on cellular data even when it’s already enabled … You probably have Cellular data disabled for Settings. Even [...]

[...] , and Keychain. Like “Exchange Accounts” these can’t be set to avoid use of cellular data, you can only tweak data use in “Fetch New Data”. So why doesn’t Apple document [...]

[...] , but at least I can move the two devices on the iTunes Apple ID to another one. They’ll all be in one place — but I’ll only move things that are out of warranty [...]

[...] hardware purchases associated with it. Two years ago, for example, they all jumped from one Apple ID to another. I assume Apple has a very broken distributed database system, and they try to [...]

[...] did not go well — possibly because my Mavericks account iCloud services use a different Apple ID than my iTunes/Apple Store/App Store purchases. In particular when I did my usual wired sync [...]

[...] and Apple. Facebook and Google were simple. Apple — not so much. There is no way to remove an Apple ID, or to remove the associated iCloud data. Apple IDs are eternal. Sigh. Oh Apple, you get away [...]

[...] ] If you're confused by this process (who isn't?), it helps to know AT&T's first test is by phone number. The phone number is the unique identifier for a contract. If that number has no eligible [...]

[...] an appalling amount of spam (email, sms) and telemarketing/robocalls to any email or phone number you give Virgin. Follow the link to track all the places you have to go AFTER you sign up. See [...]

[...] it overnight.) Other things you can try: In Settings:Phones confirm your number is listed as phone number. (It used to show up at top of Contacts, but I no longer see that on any of our phones.) While [...]

[...] swap. As I'd feared, when my wife's contract was done the automated unlock form rejected her phone number.  That wasn't surprising. What was surprising is that I was able to resolve the problem [...]

[...] . Update 614/2014 - How I dealt with this A few things I learned about iBooks for OS X and iOS Google Drive If you select all books, you can drag it the files to the desktop and create PDFs and ePubs [...]

[...] onto Mac DeDRM.app. Rename new desktop file with extension of due date. Place files on Google Drive (I use Borrowed folder) On iPhone Open ePUB file from Google Drive. From prompt choose to open [...]

[...] , so they can probably work with the Shared folder directly.  Or, more often, they just use Google Drive or Dropbox to share files [3]. Non-geeks don’t even see the Shared folder — Apple has [...]

[...] ; - these items don't have a due date Attachments - photo/video on iOS, on web can be Google Drive, Dropbox, Computer Subscribe option Comments (@ for autocomplete members) Activity record ( [...]

[...] are below... I did a fresh Mountain Lion install on the new drive including an admin account with a distinct name (you don't want to cause a name collision with the restore). Since [...]

[...] it shouldn't be running in my account. I needed both of them out. AOUMonitor was easy. From my Admin account I found ScanSnap Online Update Settings.app and turned off auto-update. then I went to the [...]

[...] It merely said it couldn't. Seems there was something odd about that admin account. So I deleted it (my admin accounts are all disposable, I only use them for admin tasks). I'll [...]

[...] related to something that’s backed up. Even after I synchronized the iPhone with my admin account iTunes instance, I still saw the ghostly outlines of the movies I’d been unable to sync [...]

[...] I just added a subscription to my Facebook calendar to my Google Calendar. Is this new? I can't say, but knowing how it works I found documentation updated in Sept [...]

[...] — I can quickly bring up iCloud Contacts. - fn - [1] Calendars 5.app is essential for the Google Calendar power user — we have it on every phone [2]. My native iOS Calendar syncs to my corporate [...]

[...] I was at home tending to a recovering child, I leapt at it. She's done a fantastic job with Google Calendar, but she'd never found a task/project app she liked. Indeed, she has a bit of an allergy to [...]