Tag: USB
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How to identify USB connectors.
I wanted to order a cable to connect my old KORG Midi controller to my new MacBook Pro. One end needed to be USB-C, and the other end needed to be an older USB connector that I wasn’t sure of the name of. Here’s a great chart from RS-components in Australia that names all the…
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How to get a Pages document into a Teleprompter on an iPad
During COVID our church ran a livestream online and the best way to speak straight to the camera was to use a teleprompter. Setting up the iPad and camera was the easy part. There were a few tricks to get it to display how we wanted. Here’s how we did it.
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How to adjust the volume of a USB audio device in OSX
You can usually adjust the audio level of your Macintosh computer using the sound slider bar and also using the volume keys on your keyboard. But if you plug in a USB audio device (Focusrite, Presonus, Behringer, Rode etc) the built in Audio controls are disabled. This is so that the full volume can be…
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How to charge your iPhone from your laptop battery.
Here is how to charge your iPhone from your MacBook Air battery. (It will work for a MacBook Pro as well.) Plug the phone into the MacBook Air USB port. Open the lid and power up the MacBook Air. Close the lid, putting the MacBook Air to sleep and the iPhone will continue to charge!
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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…
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Connecting a Microscope to your Mac
We recently moved to a small farm and we have been looking at our soil biology under a microscope. It was hard to see clearly so we bought a ‘Celestron’ Microscope camera (model #44421) from Amazon for about $40. The packet doesn’t specify that it works with Apple computers, but it does and is very simple to use. It plugs into…
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How to transfer your data from an old macbook to a newer thunderbolt macbook or macbook air.
Options for connecting the newer MacBooks (that don’t have ethernet or firewire) to older macbooks (that don’t have thunderbolt).
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Amazingly small thumb drive!
Check this out… the world’s smallest USB thumbdrive.
