Monthly Archives: February 2016

Counting Stars (One Republic Song)

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I boucountingght, yes, bought music from the iTunes music store on my phone.  Apple is making owning music very difficult for people who don’t want Apple’s streaming site. (I got in to Pandora first, and don’t want to try this new offering.)  Most of my playlists are automatic, an example: play the all music I rated as 5 stars.  I spent several minutes trying to find where the new iOS where to set the stars; when the new heart per song is clearly visible.

Giving up that day and trying web searches today, I found the stars can be seen by clicking song title in “Now Playing” mode.  iPhone used to be intuitive, but now you need to be shown tricks to use desired features.

Thunderbolt Ethernet Connector Requires New Location

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ThunderboltMy MacBookPro doesn’t have wired Ethernet connects, and transferring gigabit files via WiFi takes forever.

So I purchased an Ethernet adapter to the Thunderbolt connector.

With El Capitan (or earlier MacOS software update) required that you needed to create a new location and re-add the Thunderbolt device. So I looked in the the settings and found in the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ folder the NetworkInterfaces.plist settings for older Thuderbolt adaptors listed these (obviously external devices) in Dictionary item of “IOBuiltin” to “YES”. Sometimes software developers just have to fix the settings at the expense of ease of use.

Southern Civilization and Ice Tea

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my-ice-teaOne of my co-workers, said civilization ends where the restaurants don’t bring sweet tea as the default response to ordering ice tea.  Northern folk don’t understand that you can’t make proper sweet tea, by added sugar to cold tea.  (Sweetener has to be added while the tea is hot.)

On a related note, my friend Rodney Higgins  won for Best Editing Short Subject at a film festival on a cool movie related to this topic, called “Hey Grandma” Its Director, Sarah Hodges, has now uploaded it to a new YouTube channel, and if you have 9 minutes check it out: https://lnkd.in/eF9F2Ms