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Dealing with “iPhone backup failed”

I ran into an error while backing up my wife’s iPhone recently, and it’s one I encountered on my own phone a few months ago. The same solution worked in both cases, but in both cases it took about an

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Finding phantom used space on a Mac hard drive

My sister’s iBook said it’s hard drive was full (~150 GB) although the sizes of the system-level folders only added up to about 62 GB. This site explains how to track down the rest of the used space. Turns out the key

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Add more Emacs keybindings in Mac OS X

See here.

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I am a PhD candidate in Business Economics at Harvard. I'm interested in normative economics, tax policy, and bicycle touring. The best way to contact me is via email.


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