Category Archives: Tech
UPS
Update: I got my package yesterday. It’s pretty excellent that I have the ability to change the delivery location of a Next Day shipment, and—without any warning—have that package arrive four days later than it was supposed to. — I … Continue reading
Apple Family Sharing wishlist
Apple added Family Sharing to iOS and iCloud about a year ago. At the time they announced it, I was really excited to jump right in. Many of the features it added, like shared Reminders lists and Photos albums were … Continue reading
This Apache setting breaks mod_rewrite
I have had this problem on two very different grades of Apache servers now (cheap, shared stuff and a high-end, expensive, HIPAA-compliant box), so I thought I’d post something reasonably search-friendly in case someone else was looking for the answer. … Continue reading
VCALENDAR file with newlines in DESCRIPTION field
Hopefully if anyone else has this problem, they’ll find this post. If you’re attempting to output some data in a MySQL database as a VCALENDAR file that is viewable in Apple Calendar or Outlook or whatever, an incorrect newline character … Continue reading
iOS Status Message
This is something I’ve been meaning to write, and hadn’t yet, but this post on Engadget (which I’m sure will be followed by the same info on a million other sites) reminded me of it, and makes me hopeful that … Continue reading
iTunes Match
I’ve been using iTunes Match for a couple months now, and wanted to post some thoughts. The initial matching and uploading process was pretty slow. I can’t imagine how long it would have taken if I was uploading everything like … Continue reading
Clean Up OS X Lion Launchpad
I’m not especially a big fan of the OSX Lion Launchpad, but it pops up every once in a while. It would really bother me that it showed every single app in my Applications folder, including uninstallers and prefpanes and … Continue reading