Technology
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How to Recover Default Groups in Google Contacts
The official stance on the three default groups in Google Contacts (Family, Friends and Coworkers) is that they cannot be renamed nor can they be removed. Now I am not going to argue this point, mostly because, unlike Google Alphabet, I am not worth some half a trillion…
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Keep TiVo Premiere Recording Suggestions
Not long ago, I wrote about how I had to reset our TiVo Premiere to get suggestions working again. It worked great – suggestions came back, for the first time in months. Essentially the first time since we had had the unit. The problem is that they soon…
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Tuning Adapter Stops TiVo Premiere Suggestions
Back in late October, we decided to finally take the plunge with a TiVo Premiere. While we have had a TiVo for a while – and in fact have had two for some time now – the writing is now on the wall that we'll need to upgrade…
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Root Your Nook HD and Remove Bloatware
Not too long ago, the Barnes and Noble Nook HD created quite a stir when the company announced that it would get the Play Store installed natively – this means that instead of trying to go up against Amazon and the Fire by creating its own ecosystem, the…
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Cannot Link to Secure Site in Movable Type
I recently had a client where everything was working fine – but they were unable to link to any secure (https) sites when creating entries in Movable Type. Unfortunately, there were no messages to be found, and everything worked just fine – as long as there were no…
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Continuity Matters in Applications, Too
A few days ago, I discussed the importance of continuity – generally as it related to movies and television. But continuity is important in applications, too – perhaps even more so. Let's take a look at LinkedIn as one example. For a long time, LinkedIn has offered recommendations,…
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Disable License Logging Service in SBS 2003
There is a (somewhat outdated) SBS 2003 server on our network, and as we have discovered, the License Logging Service keeps wanting to restart. It is generally not possible to stop it for any length of time. Even disabling it doesn't work – it keeps coming back on….
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Why is Everything so Complicated?
Enough talk about government. Instead, let's look at software. Specifically, why does it have to be so dang complicated? Take updates. It has become fairly commonplace to get them. If you use Windows, there is even a utility helpfully called Windows Update. On a regular basis, it provides…
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Fix Quicken Loan Calculation Error
I noticed the other day – okay, it has probably been a couple of months and I'm just getting around to addressing the problem – that Quicken has started to miscalculated the principal and interest on a loan (specifically a mortgage – I don't know if it's a…
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What a Long Strange Trip It's Been
Nearly ten years ago – seriously! – I heard about this blogging thing and decided I would figure out what it was all about. So I installed Movable Type on a hosting account I had sitting around collecting dust. At the time, it was running on version 2.64….