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A new Fox News poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump by a crushing 25 point margin in counties that were close in 2016.

The poll shows Biden with a commanding 49-40 lead over Trump nationally and an eight-point lead in battleground states, but things are considerably more dire for Trump in counties where Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were within 10 points of each other in 2016:

SQRL Up and running on this blog, it’s awesome.

I’ve just installed SQRL as a login tool for this blog. So far, it’s working as it should. I have a challenge for anyone that stumbles upon this blog post; Get your SQRL ID and use it to set up a user account on this blog, and post a comment under this thread 🙂

Get SQRL information here. Hint, you MUST have a physical printer attached to your computer because you will be required to PRINT your get-out-of-jail code on a physical piece of paper. You must read all the instructions/explanations during each step of the process, Steve takes great pains to be crystal clear on who, what, where, and why you are doing the things required in each step. I encourage you to PRINT the QR code so you can capture the code with your mobile phone SQRL client, this will input the one time CODE into your phone, then you will need to put in your password to add your ID to your SQRL client on your phone. I’ve gone through all the steps, added the client to this blog using a wordpress plugin.

Again, I challange anyone who stumbles upon this blog post to get their SQRL client and ID, and test it out, it’s very very cool… 🙂

–heinz

Apple sending your browsing data to China

After watching Snowden chat about the privacy issues cell phones impose on the account holders, not even 24 hours later, Laporte and crew bring up the same issue as they discover Apple by default is sending all your browsing data to a company named Tencent located in China. News article here.

Edward Snowden: How Your Cell Phone Spies on You

You can watch the podcast here; This Week In Tech 740 To skip directly to the discussion on this topic, fast forward to time stamp 45:35 or you can follow the simple instructions.

Here is how to disable this feature.
–Settings
–Safari
–Scroll down to the Privacy and Security section
–Fraudulent Website Warning (Turn this off)

–hf

Apple Mail Not Syncing The Sent Folder

I have resisted Apple for 30 years, this is no longer an option for me as many of my clients’ grand kids are gifting Apple stuff to their grand parents.

My first endeavor; Apple iPad
2017.12.17
Apple Store
Wellington Greens Mall
West Palm Beach, FL
Apple iPad 128GB iOS 11.2.1 (silver)

Infuriating episode #1
Lasted 2 days!

The mail program on a new Apple iPad iOS 11.2.1 will NOT sync the “sent” folder–“yes” I have set up the mail account using IMAP settings. I have exhausted all common sense choices in the “Advanced” settings section with no effective result. Keep reading, I’ve located an answer for you 🙂

Amazing (not really though) to find thousands of Apple Victims faced with the same dilemma, as per google. Search for “apple mail not syncing sent folder”

“Apple Victims” (those which apply logic and common sense as often as possible only to be rendered dumbfounded by Apple’s choice of UI nomenclature, ops and maneuvers)

When I set up my first email account, I think it was HP OpenMail back in 1987, the “system” by default had; inbox/sent/trash. Not much has changed in 30 years and other than archiving and spam folders/directories, the basic dir’s listed above, should have remained unchanged—common sense would suggest. Today, I can download Linux Mint 18.2, install it and using Mozilla Thunderbird, setup 30 or more IMAP mail accounts–all will sync flawlessly with my mail server. The “sent” folder is just that, a folder which contains all mail which has been sent from that account to wherever. It’s just default, and it’s just common sense, no ridiculous, uncommon settings to fumble with, it just works.

Setting up an IMAP email account on an iPad, that actually works as an IMAP account would be expected to:

And It Begins:

Start by going to,

1) settings > Accounts & Passwords >

2) Under the Accounts section on the right, open the mail account you want to apply the correct settings to.

3) You will see IMAP listed at the top with your mail account just below it and to the right you will see the email address of that account, tap on the email address to open up the settings.

4) The keyboard will pop up and display, hiding the settings window, hide the keyboard and look at the bottom of the open window which is displaying the settings, you will see “Advanced” at the bottom left, open this.

5) You will see a topic heading called “Mailbox Behaviors” which will list some (default or common) mail folders.

NOTE! These default system folders always will list at the top, no need to look for mail system folders down in your list of other folders–not in this case, keep reading.

6) You should see “Sent Mailbox”, and to the right it will say “Sent” in your case, but will be “Sent Messages” later on. (MAKE UP YOUR MIND APPLE, it’s e-mail, not e-messages!

7) Open the “sent” or “Sent Messages”  you should see two sections; “On My iPad” and “On The Server”

NOTE! If your running IMAP settings, there should be ZERO confusion as to how an email client is to handle mail and where to place it when syncing with the mail server, accept when Apple does it—keep reading.

8) Under the “On The Server” settings, IGNORE common sense and IGNORE the “sent” folder and if you see a check there, then that is the reason you have sought out help and are reading this right now.

9) Scroll to the bottom of the list of all your sub mail folders (ones you have created) and look for Apple’s “Sent Messages” folder, tap on it with your finger to select it, a blue check mark should appear.

10) start backing out of the settings area by tapping on “advanced” at the top left, then “account” at the top left and finally tap on “Done” at the top right.

11) press the home hard button on the ipad, now test out your email.

I’m giving credit to the following article that helped me solve this issue.

Web24.com

NOTE: I did not find any useful help on the Apple forums, only suggestions to make sure the “sent” folder was selected under the “on the server” section—had no effect.

-heinz

Quad9 might be more trusted and better than OpenDNS

For many years I have been using the OpenDNS servers, until it was made known that Cisco took them over, just like Oracle took over MySQL, now anyone that stays current on security news, doesn’t trust any of them. MySQL and OpenOffice have been replaced with MariaDB and LibreOffice, open source software–there is a reason for everything. I’m currently pointing my routers to primary DNS 9.9.9.9 and secondary DNS 208.67.222.222 however, I’m thinking of dropping the secondary completely and just running with the Quad9.

If you’re interested in this nonsense, you might also interested in running some benchmarks on DNS servers. For this I suggest you grab a copy of an awesome program written by Steve Gibson back in 2010 called DNS Benchmark. By right clicking on the title bar you will find more options than you ‘ll know what to do with. The program is Freeware and is crystal clear clean of any trickery like advertising and spyware….. DNS Benchmark can be found here.

For more info on Quad9 and what it does for you, you can find that info here.

Have a marvelous day!

heinz