Category Archives: Hardware

Computer hardware, the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system ( Wikipedia )

Ansible Hello World Primer Tutorial

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The role of a programmer is expanding into deployment with software tools such as Ansible, because it has the capability of making the piloting of automation systems “approachable” as an “art”. Why would you want to “pilot an automation system”? … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X and iOS Messages Primer Tutorial

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You have some photos taken with your Camera app on your iPad. You like to save such photos on your MacBook Pro. That is the setting for today’s thoughts in the series of “Mac OS X and iOS Communication” themed … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X and iOS FaceTime Primer Tutorial

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We happen to own a MacBook Pro laptop (circa 2011 … which pans out to be significantly “old” for a later blog post) and an iPad. As you’d expect, there are benefits to having two Apple products like this, and … Continue reading →

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Email Photos on iPad as Attachments Primer Tutorial

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It’s easy on tablets to email photos to people. Tablets can usually be the camera and the photo gallery mechanism and the means to construct and send the email. Today, ready at hand is an iPad to show you the … Continue reading →

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Facebook Webcam Video Failure Primer Tutorial

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Today we discuss a problem, with Windows 10, and Internet Explorer, one of my students was having using Facebook with a Live Chat, and having the video not work at her end, but was working at the other end, and … Continue reading →

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Solid State Drive Primer Tutorial

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The MacBook Pro (this blog is largely written on) had a bit of a timeout recently … thanks Safemode … and we now have a new file storage system, as the old Hard Disk Drive had many errors on it … Continue reading →

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Kinesthetic iPod Learning Primer Tutorial

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Was listening to the radio the other day, to a “technical gadgetry” program and they were predicting the imminent demise of a couple of technologies … voicemail iPod The first one is sad, but not of huge impact to me, … Continue reading →

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Windows Wireless Printing Primer Tutorial

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Some printers are capable of supporting wireless printing on a Windows network. Wireless printing is a pretty powerful tool to have, doing away with that “office” or “home” network “ethernet” wiring or printing cabling of older configurations. So supposing you … Continue reading →

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