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30 December 2020
I didn't think I'd write an article about it one day, but now it has come to that. Apple seems to have solved the battery problem with laptops so well that I already [...]
11 November 2020
My current MacBook Pro (15 inch) is a good 3 years old (from 2017). It's still enough for all of my work with apps like Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Premiere, Final Cut, Garageband, Bear Editor, Blocs, KeepIt, [...]
12 May 2020
A reader wrote to me this morning that his Mac threw the following message every time he plugged in the DVD player: USB accessories disabled. Disconnect high-power accessories to activate USB devices. Regardless of which port the device is connected to [...]
13 June 2019
Anyone who reads my test reports knows that I like to measure current and voltage or output power between technical devices and their power sources. With power banks, I do this with a small USB multimeter from PortaPow. With 230 volt consumers, I missed [...]
7 February 2019
Yesterday I got a question from a reader who wanted to know whether it is "normal" for the hearing aid batteries to only last a week. However, this question is not so easy to answer [...]
13 January 2018
Unfortunately, there are a lot of cables going through the Wupper at the moment, because my two little cats seem to want to get rid of their milk teeth and gnaw on everything that is not in the trees with three. Among other things, [...]