Is it me or is that just the government saying were going to damage the value of our own currency ?
QE quantative easing = Currency Devaluing, stop cranking that handle cameron
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Keychain2Go – The best keychain syncing software – bar none
Ok after having purchased and tested this app for some time, I feel if safe to now say If you want to synchronise a keychain between your computers and iOS devices, then keychain2Go is really the best program I’ve found to do the job. I am now able to successfully add to my private keychain on os x and it is synced successfully to iOS when you have the iOS app open on the iPhone and it syncs in the reverse meaning any edit or additional items I make on the iOS keychain2go app then get synced back to my iMac via the background OS x keychain2go os x app which is purchasable direct from the jinx.de website or the os x app store.
I’ll be honest I initially had a few issues in setting this up, but some of that might have been down to a dodgy router that didn’t handle bonjour very well, My best advice is to read the FAQ in detail and remember that any personal and private keychain i.e. not login etc you want synced must be placed in the ~library/keychains folder and follow the advice under help>faq>misc section for a terminal command that will make it recognise other keychains placed there. and if it first you don’t succeed try a clear out of the program bits and reinstall and try again, because when you’ve got it working this is just dynamite and saves me so much time plugging and unplugging usb sticks where I kept my private keychain until Keychain2go but now its all editable available and synced on my iPhone – absolutely marvellous! Ive bought other password management apps 1password for instance but that could not work with my pre-existing existing keychain notes and I wasn’t going to re-enter over 500 keychain notes each crammed with information, 1password also worked out more trouble than it was worth, when it came to its auto entry feature and required way to many clicks to work, and it only does half what Keychain2go manages to and that seamlessly and cleanly, i much prefer keychain2go’s feature set, the syncing is awesome especially to an iOS app that works well.
don’t mind the few reviews here, the app has recently been so healthily updated, that each new version requires new rating and reviews every time, this a good app, and when you have it working, if you need keychain syncing, this will rock your world ;)
what I need from an intel / desktop CPU
There really isn’t much performance improvement in the last 4 years, intel seem to being doing maintenance stuff with energy and efficiency which is good but we are not seeing more performance for less money in the same way we are with arm ?, the transistor account per core has not really gone up much at all ? will amd start pushing intel back to moores law & actually offering us more power. I need a litle big core, always on pc, thats sips power as a super quiet file server, then transforms into the hulk for video and 3d and stuff.
Iphone 5c a £469 plastic iphone 5 ?!
I know they dont employ commoners of any kind, but I think they should have researched that price point a little better ?
£90 less than an iphone 5s ? whose not going to pay the extra at that point and buy a 5s, to be honest you I thought apple were going to make a shocker and create a $299 purchase outright cheap iphone which would have opened a whole new market to them ? instead they made a plastic turkey ?
ok this is what the iphone 5c should have been effectively >
it should have been injection molded one colour black plastic iphone 4s all the way that you can buy outright for £199 not on contract, maybe they can still do it and call it the 5e ? for economy I dont know but £469 is well out, its about pushing ios further down the demographic chain into poorer markets and not screwing people over for colour plastics ?
to be honest they should do a dirt cheap £99 iOS based phone with a slightly better than 3gs screen or something and single core ? to really push the iOS using demographic globally
if i wan an investor and a commoner I would think they were out of touch ?
cater for everyone
ooh I can has it in pink or yellow does any grown person really care ?!
yahoo update their logo ?! that will make the difference between success and failure !
what the are we talking about ? is this yahoo’s idea … of an announcement ? we fiddled with our logo ? = waste of money, do something technical clever and timesaving and useful for people ? that might convince people to be interested in yahoo, dont logo fiddle.
The reflex “google it” statement is invalid
The people whose stock response to everything is “google it”, which is not actually bespoke advice, and at its core the statement fails to recognise that anything fruitfully “googled” on the web was contributed by somebody actually adding – hopefully useful information to the internet, and such useful information is not magically created through the act of just googling alone, its put their by someone often in a discussion with others. If everyone just googled it and that was the sum of out input, there would be no answers to find.
Apple forums pointless, way too heavily censored for the slightest apple criticism.
at discussions.apple.com below is written what I attempted to post in response to this forum post titled “Unexpected Shut down when moving macbook pro on my ‘lap'”, which apple for reasons of censoring ego seem not to allow >
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Ignore the volunteer extremely cookie cut response high post count forum trolls, that seem only to exist to hand out the same obvious reflex responses on apples censored forums, to annoy and negatively instantly recommend the usual rubbish of … user error / back up everything / try a wipe re-install or go to an apple store and pay them money. The only valid advice given by such trolls is to make sure you have a backup. Theyre the equivalent of the people whose stock response to everything is “google it”, which is not actually bespoke advice, and at its core the statement fails to recognise that anything fruitfully “googled” on the web was contributed by somebody actually adding hopefully useful information to the internet, and such useful information is not magically created through the act of just googling alone, its put their by someone often in a discussion with others.
Some of us low post count but expert users understand your here in the forum, because your seeking pro-active positive advice from users who’ve experienced such issues before themselves, not seeking stock trite responses, every industry of technical understanding has the same parade of characters, some less useful than others.
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OK actual Advice :
What Linc fails to highlight is SMS stands for Sudden Motion Sensor, “Sudden” being the operative word, ie it supposed to protect the hard drive from a traumatic movement like how an airbag is actuated in a car, and should not be going off when a laptop is being carried to a new location table to sofa etc. I have noted some apple laptops in which problems as you describe occur. and it often comes downs to one of four things>
1 There has been issue with SMS going wrong on certain hard drives and being overactive, this has been noted especially after upgrades. Some drives are not compatible with apples system and falsely mis-report sometimes apples system is too sensitive : read > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1935. you can thankfully disable SMS if you want. if this resolves your problems your good to go. just don’t swing your laptop about after disabling it, as Linc1 is in fact correct in stating that sudden repeated terminations of disk activity can cumulatively damage data on the drive and impair and damage the hard drive long term.
2 loose connections in the laptop disturbed by movement, its worth carefully reseating most easily accessible internal connectors and memory
3 Since the final conclusion of logic board failure is so expensive it can sometimes be worth replacing the cheaper PMU board in case there is some operative heat based component failure or flexing issue there, causing it.
4 Or … there is sadly and most devastatingly a dry joint on the logic board, which when flexed by carrying movement ( never carry a laptop by one corner, always use two hands on the sides) causes the laptop to instantly shutoff, in this case a new logic board will be required, solder reflow of dodgy boards can work temporarily but rarely in the long term. apple not providing parts to end users, means we have to rely on the unreliable 2nd hand market, and purchasing a replacement logic board on ebay is usually a lottery.(no lead in solder any more (military got an exemption on that … note) and endless surface mount ball grid array manufacture, for board and chip sandwiches that get too hot … doesn’t help)
I would rule out … points 1, 2 and 3 in the order above before concluding 4
NB> temp based shutdown
its also always worth getting marcel bresinks genius and free “temperature monitor” software and making sure your not experiencng thermal shutdown due to high cpu temperature. apple ‘lap’ tops are not brilliantly ventilated and should always rest on a hard surface when on your ‘lap’ to allow sufficient airflow under and around the laptop, placing them on a duvet is a recipe for disaster, cpus have diferent thermal shutoffs around 100deg c, the lower temperature the components operate in your laptop generally the longer they live, you cpu should preferably never be exceeding 80deg in general use, the cooler the better also there is various fan control software to aid this heat scenario SMCfancontrol, fan control etc, listen for fans ramping all the time.
ifixit is a much better place for discussion as concerns out of warranty repair of apple products.
Why you may ask yourself is the premium priced & branded computer you bought going wrong and you finding yourself seeking help on these forums, a small number of years after you purchased your computer, It’s because chinese standard manufacture quality which can rarely offer premium build quality, is generally the same standard across mainstream brands for all chinese manufactured goods, Reliability and build quality whether a £400 or £1000 laptop is roughly equal, mainly the cost of major component parts used is what creates the price difference, eg CPU / display / graphics / Disk parts cost etc.
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In the end i went on to make the following post … just to see whether it would get through ?
wierdly a post that contains no useful information does ? typical …
“Had some relevant points to add to this discussion, but apples endless usual ego based, forum censorship stasi – prevent my post from appearing, I bet even this wont appear either, apples forums are basically a marketing excercise, I’d look elsewhere help, its time the users left apple to themselves on these forums.”
the post above was also eventually removed … by the apple forum stasi …
traders are a tax on economys
the stock market is often just a tax on business and enterprise by a group of parasitic gamblers stealing money by placing bets on the movement of the market.
concept of time in amazonas tribe
no word for time or year or month in amazonas tribe
not that surprising in equatorial parts of the world where there is very little evidence of seasons from a weather perspective ?
Rent controls legislation against property speculation and the buy to let market, interest rate increases.
yes we need to have rent controls to break the vicious cycle, house prices increase, rents increase, buy to let market increases, inflation increases, creating more societal division, people driven to benefits increase as wages don’t increase in relation, government debt increases thereby decreasing perceived value in the pound internationally, soon we might be at parity with the dollar!, government holds base rate artificially low to reduce its own interest payments on its exponential looking debt, were close to a greek like tipping point, interest so low makes it not worth saving money especially when interest rates are half inflation, further devaluing the pound which makes it harder for everyone to afford the increasing house prices and consumer goods/ food, unless wages increase which causes competetivity to go down which reduces gdp and economic output, the only solution is capping government debt, setting rent controls at a lower rate than current rents, and de-incentivising buy to let and multiple property ownership, to cap people pressure on housing through importation, and wean the UK business of cheaper more pliable foreign labour dependancy, to defuse the housing market so as to lower debt burden invested in property mortgages, and its associated short-termist profiteering on property values. once rents are capped 20% lower, to thence cap housing benefit successively and lower it in relation to reduced house prices and capped rents, and genuinely un-house council property sub-letters of which im sure is around 5-10%, whilst increasing the base rate, and transfer the cost of housing benefit, back to the employer by increased wages. reducing our global competitiveness, but seriously our economy is really overheated and distorted even in this recession. perhaps for the government borrowing to be invested in gold and then borrow against the gold, as it will increase in value and reduce the cost of re-payment required. we borrow £2.3billion a week increasing the debt.
fundamentally the banks encourage a debt society as it was in their interest, and the government followed suit, such that its personality from a fiscal sense is modelled after the averagely imprudent citizen, and they are now in cahoots to protect their imprudent fiscal natures, as the shock of anything else is against both their personal fiscal interests, in other words the gambler with debts always want to sit at the table and gamble some more in the hope of leaving it with less debt than accepting responsibility for the debt hes created.