I went to the Apple Store at the Mall of America yesterday to confirm that my iPad problems were because my current one was too old rather than something actually wrong with it. Diagnostics confirmed that it was fine, other than being seven years old.

I also looked at the new models. To my surprise, the current iPad Air is heavier and thicker than ( Read more... )

Or possibly just the march of time.

I have a second generation iPad Air. That model came out in 2013, and I acquired it used in 2016. So I guess it doesn't owe me anything.

I just got off a phone call with Apple support that confirmed my suspicions that it's a couple of iOS versions behind, and can't be updated any further (except for security stuff ( Read more... )

I recently saw an advertisement for the new iPhone SE, and I knew it was time to replace my current phone.

My phone history has been based on trying to get devices that are small enough to fit comfortably in my pocket. I was very grumpy when the iPhone 6 came out, with its options for large and very large sizes; so I was quite pleased that Apple ( Read more... )

I have a 3Tb external hard drive that's about half full. Unfortunately, something has gone wrong with it. When I tried to run the Windows error checking utility, it ran for quite a while, then hung.

I can see all the files, but a lot of them just return error messages or do nothing if I try to copy them. There's nothing critical if I can't recover ( Read more... )

Isn't there a Windows installer for Sigil? I had Sigil on my previous computer, and I'd like to get it on this one, even though I've only been able to make minimal use of it.

All I can find is a .zip file, and I couldn't figure out how to install it from there, or if it was even a Windows version. What I really want is a standard Windows-type ( Read more... )

When I installed Calibre on the new computer, I accepted all the defaults ( Read more... )

After a certain amount of physical difficulties that I will probably pay for, the new computer is in place and working ( Read more... )

I bought a new desktop computer from MicroCenter back in February. I had planned to bring my old computer to MicroCenter to let them do the migration, but their wait time (while both computers would be in durance vile) was always too long. And then the stay-at-home order went into effect, and the one call I made to query MicroCenter didn't even go ( Read more... )

And there are, alas, complications ( Read more... )

First, a bit of background.

I'm a spinner. There's a spinning magazine called Spin-Off that comes out four times a year. I recently bought CDs of most of the old issues of the magazine. I want to read the issues on my iPad. This requires copying the files from the CD to my computer, and importing them (via Dropbox) to my iPad ( Read more... )