Just today I found myself needing to make a voice call to Australia in order to save myself AU$1,500.00. from Indonesia. In the past I have always used used Skype for these occasional necessities but as most people will know MS in their wisdome decided to scrap it back on May 5, 2025. (MS Teams is not a VOIP)

So, suddenly I found that an insurance policy I had thought cancelled was about to charge me for renewal on the 25th of this month and I definitely did not want that. I was unable...

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Just had surgery to remove a cancerous prostate and sitting here (ouch) updating some personal agendas. One is my email service. Lately I have been receiving hundred's of emails arriving in my junk folder. No sooner than I clear it out, within the hour another hundred pop up. Thinking maybe its time to reconsider my email service and upgrade email and/or change my address. Still using an @hotmail.com address that I have had for a very long time. I currently have a microsoft 365 subscription...

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When I clink on a picture in Facebook I am getting these odd renderings. In the top it says shop now? I do not have this issue using brave or Firefox. I have turned on and off ad blockers, iOS is up to date. Any ideas?

Some time ago MacInWin suggested Amphetamine as an app/utility to prevent my system from sleeping which had frequently resulted in the system notification "Your disk (name) was not ejected properly." even though it showed as connected on the Desktop on waking. An AI search states, "The "Disk Not Ejected Properly" message on macOS indicates that an external drive disconnected from the system unexpectedly, often due to sleep settings, hub issues, or connection...

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Opening the file in vi only shows some kind of header data. The actual file contents are somewhere else and possibly uneditable in vi. I need to access the data to edit in vi, use grep or apply other Unix tools.

I accidentally deleted a Calendar and can't figure out how I can retrieve it, if at all. I am on a Macbook Air running 10.9.5 and Calendar 7.0. I have an external disk that runs Time Machine. I tried looking in Time Machine but I don't know where the files are stored there, what they are called, or the steps needed to restore the calendar to may laptop. I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

My brother recently got a Macbook Pro and he asked about being able to write to his old external HDD which had most of his data. The drive was formatted in NTFS since he was on Windows. Formatting wasn't an option.
In my search for a solution, I came across a solution that I liked. But it wasn't obvious or apparent and most links showed to use either a 3rd party paid app OR Homebrew; neither of which appealed to me.

So I decided to write an article in my blog explaining the steps to make...

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