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alexpgpIn trying to minimize the drain on my phone's battery when I go out of range of my home wifi router, I had been manually turning off the wifi feature. The only problem with this was remembering to turn it back on once home, else all email—and particularly software updates—would go through the cellular network.
Normally, this would not be a problem, except that last month, Galina and I elected to cut our phone plan to the bone to save money, but with wifi turned off, updates ate up most of that allowance before 10 days of the monthly billing period was out.
So I Googled "android app turn off wifi based on location" and found a free app with a reasonable set of reviews. We'll see how that works.
In other news, I have from time to time been bitten by a particularly pathological behavior on the part of Word when it comes to the Normal.dotm file (the one that contains all of my macros). This behavior takes the form of deleting the old file and creating a fresh new bare-bones default file in the event a problem is encountered while opening the existing file. This has happened to me several times, now, and I keep swearing I will do something to keep from losing my macros, but nothing really ever got done, past making a backup copy of my Normal.dotm file almost a year ago.
In reviewing that backup, I find that while all of my newer macros will have to be recreated, the bulk of my workaday macros were created before I made that backup copy, so the outlook is not that bleak. I have, however, now configured my backup program to create versioned backups of the file, but I'm going to have to test that functionality before depending on it.
Testing backups is important. I say that becase, in my quest to find a more recent version of my Normal.dotm, I did run across images of my work computer made more recently than a year ago, using something called DriveImage XML. However, I apparently did not use the program correctly. Upon loading the XML file the program requires to decode the much larger data file, it turned out said XML file contained no such information. I did find some references on the Web for ways to recover the files using just the data files, but seeing as how most of what I need on a day-to-day basis is in that year-old backup of Normal.dotm, I decided to invest my time in other pursuits. Eventually, I will have to try DriveImage XML again, and see what happens.
In considering this week's LJ Idol prompt, I am overflowing with ideas for writing, but I find none of them compelling. However, it's probably not realistic to wait for an idea "that writes itself" to come knocking on the ol' brain pain.
More later, probably.
Normally, this would not be a problem, except that last month, Galina and I elected to cut our phone plan to the bone to save money, but with wifi turned off, updates ate up most of that allowance before 10 days of the monthly billing period was out.
So I Googled "android app turn off wifi based on location" and found a free app with a reasonable set of reviews. We'll see how that works.
In other news, I have from time to time been bitten by a particularly pathological behavior on the part of Word when it comes to the Normal.dotm file (the one that contains all of my macros). This behavior takes the form of deleting the old file and creating a fresh new bare-bones default file in the event a problem is encountered while opening the existing file. This has happened to me several times, now, and I keep swearing I will do something to keep from losing my macros, but nothing really ever got done, past making a backup copy of my Normal.dotm file almost a year ago.
In reviewing that backup, I find that while all of my newer macros will have to be recreated, the bulk of my workaday macros were created before I made that backup copy, so the outlook is not that bleak. I have, however, now configured my backup program to create versioned backups of the file, but I'm going to have to test that functionality before depending on it.
Testing backups is important. I say that becase, in my quest to find a more recent version of my Normal.dotm, I did run across images of my work computer made more recently than a year ago, using something called DriveImage XML. However, I apparently did not use the program correctly. Upon loading the XML file the program requires to decode the much larger data file, it turned out said XML file contained no such information. I did find some references on the Web for ways to recover the files using just the data files, but seeing as how most of what I need on a day-to-day basis is in that year-old backup of Normal.dotm, I decided to invest my time in other pursuits. Eventually, I will have to try DriveImage XML again, and see what happens.
In considering this week's LJ Idol prompt, I am overflowing with ideas for writing, but I find none of them compelling. However, it's probably not realistic to wait for an idea "that writes itself" to come knocking on the ol' brain pain.
More later, probably.
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