Flixable is a search engine for Netflix-specific streaming video. It features a more open design that lets the page elements breathe, and offers a pleasing way to browse what movies are debuting and leaving. Fixable’s search function isn’t necessarily better than Netflix’s native search function; it just presents its results in a prettier package. That …
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BACKUPS UPDATE
Well, blow me down. I ran a manual Time Machine backup on Sunday – about 16GB – and it ran without a hitch. No error messages, no stopping. Progress, of a sort, though I have no idea why it suddenly decided to start working again. (Note that I have granted this unholy amalgam of silicon …
TECH OVERLOAD
What began last year as “modernizing” has turned into a bit of a tech tsunami at our house: Got my first smartphone, an iPhone SE, last fall Got an iPad Pro 10.5 for our Christmas trip, to replace the ol’ Acer Chromebook Got a Doxie Go SE wireless scanner Got a new external 4TB hard …
TOUCH ID TIP: ADD YOUR PINKY FINGERS
Liz bought her first smartphone today, an iPhone 7. The Apple customer support person we spoke to was great and she passed along this really clever tip. The iPhone or iPad is on the table and you’re eating a sandwich and you need all your fingers to hold the messy thing together and your phone …
DIET UPDATE
Yesterday, I weighed 210.2, about a pound under my control line. This morning, I weighed 211.8, about a pound above my control line. I could attribute the increase to a bigger than usual lunch, a supper of starchy leftovers, trying to lose weight in the winter is a mug’s game, the dates I snacked on …
BLOGTROTTR
Ever since the death of Google Reader, I have avoided finding another RSS reader. I already have Pocket, which as of today reminds me that I have 1,459 unread web pages. Isn’t that enough? Apparently not for me. Still, I also am not a tech reporter who needs (or feels he needs) to stay on …
Audible.com Daily Deals
Back in 2001 when I first started subscribing to Audible, you got one free book a month. I stopped subscribing when I went through some lean years and never went back. I agree with Ramit Sethi that, in some cases, buying something as I need it or want it is better than subscribing. I subscribe …
Ursula K. Le Guin
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven I am also a supporter of a Kickstarter-backed documentary on Le Guin.
LIBRARY SCIENCE
She’d gone to school for years to study library science. He didn’t see how it could be so complicated. It seemed like a hoax. J.D. Daniels, “Letter from Devils Tower,” The Correspondence
BACKUPS (CONT’D)
Well, that was interesting. I logged in to Liz’s account to back up her home directory to my Lacie portable drive. While there, I thought, “Let’s see if Time Machine will back up to the Time Capsule from here.” Apparently, it did. Although it reported the copying stopped with an error, it was a different …
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