Tag: problems
Can’t transfer photos from an iPhone to your Macbook wirelessly!
I have an iPhone 13 and a new model 14inch m1 MacBook Pro. I’d love to copy the photo’s from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro. I can’t find a way to do it easily. The only option seems to be using a lightning to USB cable, but even then the processes painfully slow. There…
How to fix your Fuji Xerox Printer in Monterey 12.3.1
I just upgraded to OSX Montery 12.3.1 and it broke my printer. The printer just comes up with an error saying ‘Filter Failed.’ I downloaded the new Fuji Xerox drivers but that did not fix it. I reset the printing system (Apple’s suggested fix) but that did not fix it either. In the end I…
Apple admits that Pages cannot print in greyscale.
Last month I described a bug in Apple Pages which caused Pages to place hidden color information in greyscale documents. This is fine if you are printing at home but if you take those documents to a commercial printer you will be charged at color copy rates instead of black and white. At our local…
Apple printing bug costing users thousands of dollars.
A bug in Apple’s OS X printing software could see consumers unknowingly pay thousands of dollars extra in printing bills. The bug causes some black and white documents to be billed as colour documents by an attached printer. Businesses on a commercial printing plan will be potentially paying thousands of dollars extra in printing bills.…
iOS11 battery drain problem update
An update on What is causing the iOS11 battery drain problems. The problem did not clear up. I’ve been in contact with Apple support. They had me do a complete factory reset on my iPhone. They accessed it remotely and did some battery tests. The hardware is fine. The battery dropped from 100% to 75% while…
Facebook slow today
If facebook is not working well this week, don’t panic. It’s not you computer or iPhone or browser that’s causing the problems. Apparantly Facebook are having some problems. There’s no fix that I know of other than to wait it out and try again a little later. This site allows you to check if others…
Does your iPhone give you sore thumbs?
I tend to get sore thumbs from over-using my iPhone. Here’s something interesting that I noticed when I used an Android phone for 6 months. My sore thumbs disappeared. To tell you the truth, I didn’t really notice this until I switched back to the iPhone again, then after about 1 week my sore thumbs…
iPhone “cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the selected items”
I just went to sync my iPhone and I was given this message. This ‘lack of space’ is not a lack of space in your computer, the ‘lack of space’ is on the iPhone. This is somewhat of a bug. I think it is because iTunes is wanting to do some updates to the iPhone…
Apple mail changing my ‘From:’ sender account
Over the past couple of months our family has discovered a strange little problem. Our emails have been getting mixed up! My daughters have been sending emails, but the replies have been coming to me. I have been sending emails, and they have appeared as coming from my wife. And in the worst case, some…
Steve Jobs is dead, Apple is dying.
I don’t like to say this but Apple is starting to be not so crisp, not so sweet, not so Apple. 2 days Ago Apple released a software update that crippled everyone’s ethernet. This meant that unless you used wifi, your internet was gone. Today Apple released a ‘fix’ that you can read about here. It requires you…
“Ethernet unplugged” problem in El Capitan Feb 2016
If you woke up today and your ethernet port is not working, it’s because Apple put out a secret release last night that broke it. (You didn’t even need to download a software update, it came overnight…) Apple haven’t released a fix yet but nurds all over the world are trying to solve it.
How to stop flickering on an Apple LED Cinema Display
The Apple 24 inch LED Cinema display and the Apple thunderbolt display have been a source of frustration for many people. They flickers, go black, the screens gets garbage on them, the fans turn on and off. After reading lots of forums and trying various things I have practically completely eliminated all the flickering on…
Warning: problems upgrading to Keynote 6.6
On October 16 Apple released Keynote 6.6. I got caught out today because Keynote version 6.5 can’t read Keynote 6.6 documents. Just be warned that the Keynote 6.6 causes incompatibility problems both ways. This is a big blunder from Apple. http://discussions.apple.com/thread/7287463
Gmail messages stuck in Outbox in Apple Mail in Yosemite
Today I discovered a whole pile of messages in my “On my Mac: Outbox” and no matter what I tried I couldn’t get them to send. I use gmail as my mail server. The emails looked like they were sending – there was no error message – but they didn’t actually send. They were still…
What to do when Mac OS X Yosemite won’t boot
Repairing a broken OSX. There have been reports of OS X Yosemite freezing after a software update. This can happen to any version of OS X. If your Macintosh won’t boot up firstly I’d leave it a few hours, maybe even overnight, and see if it comes good. If not, you should ring Apple as they will…
Why can’t I copy large files to my USB Thumbdrive?
If you’ve tried copying a file larger that 4GB to a thumb drive you might have received an error saying it’s full, when you know it’s not. This is because of a fie size limit on PC formatted thumbdrives. Here is how to format a thumb drive in Apple format which will allow you to save…
Should I upgrade to Yosemite?
Yosemite has just been released. Like any new OSX, it has various problems with the first release, so unless you really need it, I’d wait for the first minor update to come out to fix some of the buys. If you decide to install Yosemite, here are a few things to be aware of before you upgrade.…
What to do if your Macintosh email is being received as a blank document for PC users
Some PC users complain that mail messages forwarded from Apple mail come out blank, with the entire message as an attachment. This can be caused by either the Microsoft mail server the person is using, or a bug in Outlook Express on their Windows PC.
The fix for iPad or iPhone difficulties with dry fingers
Some people have difficulty controlling the touchscreen on an iPad or iPhone with their fingers, especially older people. The iPhone touch sensitive screen works on capacitance and it does not respond well to dry fingers. Read on for some experiments I did and how to fix the problem!
How to stop iTunes from playing while watching TV
With Snow Leopard Apple have made the pause button on the remote control ALWAYS start and stop itunes.
How to reset the OS X Installer
In Snow Leopard if you try to install a program while another is installing you get an error message saying “Waiting for other installations to complete.” But what do you do if the message stays there after the program has finished installing?