Category: 675: Reader Feedback, Keychain Corruption, Repair of the Week, Happy Birthday, Woz!

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is 59 today. Here are some highlights from his 59 years: *April 1, 1976:* Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple (Happy April Fool’s Day!) *1976:* Apple releases the “Apple I,”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I designed and built by Wozniak *1977:* Apple releases the “Apple II”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II *1980:* Apple goes public *1981:* Wozniak is involved in an…

Around this time last week, the venerable forums at MacFixit.com went read-only as they were integrated into the forums at cnet.com. MacFixit moderators and nearly all of the most prolific contributors moved to their new home at “FineTunedMac.com/forums”:http://www.finetunedmac.com/forums/ instead of moving to cnet.com, so the online troubleshooting community can continue to thrive. FineTunedMac is wholly…

A longtime customer came in with her MacBook Air, which she uses daily both in the office and in her very frequent travels. She uses the “QuickerTek Charger/Backup Battery Pack for MacBook Air”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/71826 and is thrilled that it allows her to fly across the country or the Atlantic and work the whole time. Recently, though,…

I wrote a few weeks ago about my fondness for Keychains in Mac OS X. While I remain fond of the system and still rely heavily on it, there have been times when the passwords it used were not correct, or my system would lock up when the keychain was accessed. In these cases there…

I wrote last week about Owen’s skunking. Unfortunately, he’s not the only dog around here that’s been sprayed–Hapy’s dog Magnus and Damian’s dog Ernie both got it in the last week. Owen was even worse off after his second spraying in a 3-day span, but without the feedback of Tech Tails readers, I would’ve just…

Happy Tuesday, It’s hard for many to believe just how dog-friendly our workplace is. Many customers ask on the phone or in person whether we really have dogs running around all day, and I reply with a straight face and unwavering voice that we do. At our Waitsfield headquarters there are usually ten or eleven…