Tag: troubleshooting

• June 5, 2020

  Fibre Ultra

  I upgrad­ed my fibre inter­net to Fibre Ultra, tech­ni­cal­ly called Giga­bit fibre which has the adver­tised speeds of 900 Mbps down and 500 Mbps up. First, some back­sto­ry. My first fibre con­nec­tion I got in 2018 was sol­id (Fibre 100 — 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up). After some time I grew unhap­py with the puny 20 Mbps… Read more

• February 19, 2020

  Text Message Forwarding on iOS

  A while ago I noticed that I am receiv­ing texts only on my iPhone, but some texts don’t show up in the Mes­sages app on either of my Macs. The texts I can’t see on my Macs are usu­al­ly the two-fac­tor authen­ti­ca­tion codes and oth­er texts sent from the spe­cial three-dig­it phone num­bers typ­i­cal­ly used by the busi­ness­es… Read more

• December 23, 2019

  Outlook app issues

  I final­ly removed the Microsoft Out­look app from my phone. It still keeps freez­ing and get­ting in my way. The Out­look tech sup­port per­son was kind and offered fur­ther help when I blogged and tweet­ed my trou­bles with the app in Octo­ber. How­ev­er, I still face this prob­lem with the app. The fre­quent “per­for­mance improve­ments and bug… Read more

• September 2, 2015

  Disk space mystery

  Today I resolved the disk space mys­tery on my work com­put­er, the lat­est gen­er­a­tion Mac Book Pro. This has both­ered me for few months. A few months ago I noticed that there is only about 45 GB of free space in my Mac. This is on a 500 GB hard disk. This did not sound cor­rect. I keep my… Read more