Brother ink cartridge problem

McAllister

My wife's printer is a Brother MFC-J485DW.

The printer doesn’t recognize a brand new Yellow cartridge. It continues to complain that the Yellow cartridge is out of ink. ?We also tried a second new cartridge. ?Same effect.

What might be the problem? ?Is there?anything else we should try?

Stratton McAllister

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Time zones in Apple mail

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A former medical practice`` partner of mine in California is now in retirement, living in Mendoza, Argentina, where he’s now making award-winning Malbec wines.

Yesterday we drove (all within one state and one time zone) the 250 miles due east from near Montana’s western border to Bozeman (still quite far west in this enormous state).

Ted Turner (he of CNN, the Atlanta Braves, etc) owns a restaurant here at which Bison holds primacy on the menu (Mr. Turner’s 3 herds in MT actually help in preserving the endangered species.

We had dinner there last night, and I was surprised at the number of Argentinian Malbec’s on the menu, so before choosing my wine, I sent my friend a quick email asking which I should choose. The waiter was a bit impatient, checked his mobile, and told me it was already after 11 pm in Mendoza (it was ?just after 7 pm in Bozeman).

Here’s the puzzle: my iPhone says my email was sent at 19:04; my computer agrees.

My friend responded fairly quickly. I missed his incoming message.

This morning, I apologized on chance I’d awakened him, and when he responded, what I receive on my iPhone says that I sent my apology at (9:39 (GMT -0:500), but that’s not correct, since Bozeman is GMT -0:700). Turns out my friend is currently in Florida, which is GMT-0:05, but it’s confusing that the message reports while quoting from my message as follows

From: James Robertson
FirstnameLastname@...
Date 2/17/20 09:39
(GMT-05:390

(followed by the text my friend has quoted from my message).

I did indeed send it at 9:39 Florida time, but in quoting my message shouldn’t the header quote “from” information (who sent it and when it was sent) using the same time reference appropriate to the quotation’s origin?. After all, when I send a message I know where I am, but may have no idea where my respondent is. Admittedly what I’m reading here is what my friend is quoting about that message, and maybe the the time stamping of messages in headers doesn’t get transferred from the header of a quoted message. It certainly is confusing!

By the way, even without my friend’s guidance, I managed to choose the “right” Malbec!

Jim Robertson

Re: export MS Word doc to PDF and retain TOC links

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On Feb 16, 2020, at 7:47 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io wrote:

 I use PDF PenPro; I think of it as a pretty capable tool wrapped in a simply horrendous user interface :-(Which is exactly how most of the users in my user group regard it.  PDFpen isn't as capable as Adobe Acrobat Pro, but it's hundreds of dollars less, and close enough in compatibility, with a pretty bad user interface.

A new option, (actually an old option now owned by a new company which has updated it) is:

Kofax Power PDF for Mac

(Previously Power PDF for Mac from Nuance.)  This product has always been awesome, for instance it includes all of the amazing OmniPage Pro OCR engine.  But Nuance was a developer from Hell to deal with.  Now that Nuance is out of the picture, Power PDF may well now be the best choice as an Acrobat Pro alternative.  There is a free demo available for download.

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Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance

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Re: Apple Music Family Plan

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On Feb 16, 2020, at 9:18 AM, Pat Taylor via Groups.Io <pat412@...> wrote:

I just use the share feature to send tracks, albums and playlists to friends and family who are also Apple Music subscribers. ?Each recipient can then add the music to their library if they want.

That’s certainly simple enough!

Thanks so much.

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Jim Robertson

Re: Apple Music Family Plan

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I just use the share feature to send tracks, albums and playlists to friends and family who are also Apple Music subscribers. ?Each recipient can then add the music to their library if they want.

Pat

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On Feb 16, 2020, at 8:53 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

?My wife and I have similar tastes in music; enough so that we’d like not only to share the expense of listening to Apple’s enormous library, but access to our own downloaded libraries as well. So, I’ve just put us on a family plan, but now I’ve not been able to figure out how to SEE what she’s already put on her iOS devices nor she to see what I have. Does Apple have this as part of the Family Plan in a way that I’ve not sorted out yet (the web pages advertising the family plan emphasize the opposite—many people (well, six) able to create their own individual taste local archives, but not what we’re seeking; e.g., “Honey, remember that great David Bromberg album we shared in the late 70s; I just downloaded it, so listen to it yourself when you’re driving into town tomorrow."
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Jim Robertson

Apple Music Family Plan

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My wife and I have similar tastes in music; enough so that we’d like not only to share the expense of listening to Apple’s enormous library, but access to our own downloaded libraries as well. So, I’ve just put us on a family plan, but now I’ve not been able to figure out how to SEE what she’s already put on her iOS devices nor she to see what I have. Does Apple have this as part of the Family Plan in a way that I’ve not sorted out yet (the web pages advertising the family plan emphasize the opposite—many people (well, six) able to create their own individual taste local archives, but not what we’re seeking; e.g., “Honey, remember that great David Bromberg album we shared in the late 70s; I just downloaded it, so listen to it yourself when you’re driving into town tomorrow."

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Jim Robertson

Re: export MS Word doc to PDF and retain TOC links

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On Feb 16, 2020, at 8:38 AM, Jim McGarvie <jim@...> wrote:

I have also been weening myself from Acrobat, and have been using PDFpenPro. I am pretty pleased with it as well.

That’s what I was wondering about. I use PDF PenPro; I think of it as a pretty capable tool wrapped in a simply horrendous user interface :-(

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Jim Robertson

Re: export MS Word doc to PDF and retain TOC links

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I agree, Jim, I am trying to ween myself from MS Office. Some of the free alternatives, such as FreeOffice and LibreOffice, seem very good.

I have also been weening myself from Acrobat, and have been using PDFpenPro. I am pretty pleased with it as well.

Jim

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On Feb 16, 2020, at 08:17, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

I miss your specification of the macOS. Assuming that FreeOffice continues to work for you you may be all set. My concern about using both Office 2011 and MS Office online is that the former is really long in the tooth and likely to be EOL’d as far as support from Microsoft is concerned soon, but if you no longer need a Microsoft program for your basic document editing, perhaps you’re all set.

What’s your application for managing the PDF format documents?

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Jim Robertson

Re: export MS Word doc to PDF and retain TOC links

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On Feb 15, 2020, at 6:04 PM, Jim McGarvie <jim@...> wrote:

Thanks for your response, Jim. I actually DID write that I am using Mojave; I didn’t think the exact version was relevant. What IS relevant is that apparently Word for Mac (2011, in my case) does not retain the TOC hyperlinks when exported to PDF.

I miss your specification of the macOS. Assuming that FreeOffice continues to work for you you may be all set. My concern about using both Office 2011 and MS Office online is that the former is really long in the tooth and likely to be EOL’d as far as support from Microsoft is concerned soon, but if you no longer need a Microsoft program for your basic document editing, perhaps you’re all set.

What’s your application for managing the PDF format documents?

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Jim Robertson

Re: export MS Word doc to PDF and retain TOC links

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Randy S has recommended Free Office a number of times, praising its high compatibility with MS Office files.

Otto

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On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 01:04, Jim McGarvie <jim@...> wrote:

Thanks for your response, Jim. I actually DID write that I am using Mojave; I didn’t think the exact version was relevant. What IS relevant is that apparently Word for Mac (2011, in my case) does not retain the TOC hyperlinks when exported to PDF.

And while I do have access to MS Word Online, as I said in my original message it messed up the formatting of my document. Granted, I could recreate the document from scratch in MS Word Online (or, for that matter, in my personal preference: LibreOffice), but I was trying to avoid that since it is 88 pages and lots of formatting, pictures etc. I have at times distributed as an MS Word file, but not everyone can open those, and we need it to be able to be opened in a tablet and have the TOC links. PDF seems like the best option.

Turns out Otto suggested I give FreeOffice a try, and its TextMaker word processor does in fact retain the TOC links when exporting, and further I was able to open my Word document into it with very little reformatting required. Thanks Otto!

Re: export MS Word doc to PDF and retain TOC links

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Thanks for your response, Jim. I actually DID write that I am using Mojave; I didn’t think the exact version was relevant. What IS relevant is that apparently Word for Mac (2011, in my case) does not retain the TOC hyperlinks when exported to PDF.

And while I do have access to MS Word Online, as I said in my original message it messed up the formatting of my document. Granted, I could recreate the document from scratch in MS Word Online (or, for that matter, in my personal preference: LibreOffice), but I was trying to avoid that since it is 88 pages and lots of formatting, pictures etc. I have at times distributed as an MS Word file, but not everyone can open those, and we need it to be able to be opened in a tablet and have the TOC links. PDF seems like the best option.

Turns out Otto suggested I give FreeOffice a try, and its TextMaker word processor does in fact retain the TOC links when exporting, and further I was able to open my Word document into it with very little reformatting required. Thanks Otto!

Best,

Jim

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On Feb 15, 2020, at 08:30, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

Not certain I can help, but my understanding of what you’re trying to accomplish it the creation of a document in MS Word Mac 2011 that you’d like to be able to distribute as a PDF from time to time, having edited it between distributions, You have access to MS Word online (by which I’m guessing Office 365 (which of course is at least 3 revisions newer than Word for Mac 2011).

I think you’re saying that “printing to PDF” or saving electronically to PDF from Word 2011 messes up the links in your pdf.

You don’t say what version of macOS you’re using, nor what the most recent release of the OS you’re using. If you have access to Office 365, why do you not just use that to create and edit the document? If that’s not the obstacle, and what you need to the ability to distribute a document protected from editing by recipients, why not just distribute as a locked MS Word file?

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Jim Robertson

Re: export MS Word doc to PDF and retain TOC links

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On Feb 14, 2020, at 11:13 AM, Jim McGarvie <jim@...> wrote:

I have googled this issue quite a bit, and have tried every solution I have found. Most involve importing the document into Pages and exporting to PDF from there, but Pages messes up the formatting of my particular document, as does LibreOffice and OpenOffice. One suggestion was opening the document from within Dropbox with MS Word Online, but that messed up the formatting also.

I know how to create links in a TOC within Acrobat or PDFpenPro, but I have many listings in my TOC and have to revise the document frequently, and I would have to re-do all the links in the PDF every time I revised it.

Apparently this isn't a problem in Windows, but I am not using Windows, nor will I.

I am using MS Word 2011 on my MBP running Mojave.

Not certain I can help, but my understanding of what you’re trying to accomplish it the creation of a document in MS Word Mac 2011 that you’d like to be able to distribute as a PDF from time to time, having edited it between distributions, You have access to MS Word online (by which I’m guessing Office 365 (which of course is at least 3 revisions newer than Word for Mac 2011).

I think you’re saying that “printing to PDF” or saving electronically to PDF from Word 2011 messes up the links in your pdf.

You don’t say what version of macOS you’re using, nor what the most recent release of the OS you’re using. If you have access to Office 365, why do you not just use that to create and edit the document? If that’s not the obstacle, and what you need to the ability to distribute a document protected from editing by recipients, why not just distribute as a locked MS Word file?

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Jim Robertson

Re: export MS Word doc to PDF and retain TOC links

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Thanks, Otto, I’ll give it a try.

Jim

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On Feb 15, 2020, at 05:03, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:

One more to try: Free Office <>.

Otto

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 18:13, Jim McGarvie <jim@...> wrote:
I have googled this issue quite a bit, and have tried every solution I have found. Most involve importing the document into Pages and exporting to PDF from there, but Pages messes up the formatting of my particular document, as does LibreOffice and OpenOffice. One suggestion was opening the document from within Dropbox with MS Word Online, but that messed up the formatting also.

I know how to create links in a TOC within Acrobat or PDFpenPro, but I have many listings in my TOC and have to revise the document frequently, and I would have to re-do all the links in the PDF every time I revised it.

Apparently this isn't a problem in Windows, but I am not using Windows, nor will I.

I am using MS Word 2011 on my MBP running Mojave.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Re: export MS Word doc to PDF and retain TOC links

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One more to try: Free Office <>.

Otto

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On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 18:13, Jim McGarvie <jim@...> wrote:

I have googled this issue quite a bit, and have tried every solution I have found. Most involve importing the document into Pages and exporting to PDF from there, but Pages messes up the formatting of my particular document, as does LibreOffice and OpenOffice. One suggestion was opening the document from within Dropbox with MS Word Online, but that messed up the formatting also.

I know how to create links in a TOC within Acrobat or PDFpenPro, but I have many listings in my TOC and have to revise the document frequently, and I would have to re-do all the links in the PDF every time I revised it.

Apparently this isn't a problem in Windows, but I am not using Windows, nor will I.

I am using MS Word 2011 on my MBP running Mojave.

Thanks for any suggestions!

export MS Word doc to PDF and retain TOC links

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I have googled this issue quite a bit, and have tried every solution I have found. Most involve importing the document into Pages and exporting to PDF from there, but Pages messes up the formatting of my particular document, as does LibreOffice and OpenOffice. One suggestion was opening the document from within Dropbox with MS Word Online, but that messed up the formatting also.

I know how to create links in a TOC within Acrobat or PDFpenPro, but I have many listings in my TOC and have to revise the document frequently, and I would have to re-do all the links in the PDF every time I revised it.

Apparently this isn't a problem in Windows, but I am not using Windows, nor will I.

I am using MS Word 2011 on my MBP running Mojave.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Best,

Jim

Re: Apple's OSX computers now being hit with twice as much malware as PCs

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Howdy.

Randy, Jim, and Dave did very good responses to this article. 

I've been dealing with Macintosh since 1985 and used to be a bit of a 
virus expert.  

It's difficult to keep up with malware because of the gigantic amount 
of it for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft fans who assume that 
Macintosh is just as vulnerable as Windows.  

For years, Microsoft Windows users, almost all uninformed, have claimed 
that Macs are very vulnerable to viruses attacks.   I've heard this 
bogus claim many times.  But if you ask one of these people to actually 
name a Mac virus he can't do that.  

I think that Microsoft has finally improved Windows security and 
reduced the viral threat but at one time there may have been well over 
one million viruses for Windows and DOS.  

When you hear of stores like Target retail POS (Point of Sale systems) 
and Home Depot, Macys, Checkers (hamburger chain), Marriott hotels, the 
British National Health System, City of Baltimore, and many others 
being hacked, hit by ransomeware, customer data filched, it is ALWAYS 
99.99% Windows system.  ALWAYS.  

For Macintosh System (the original Mac OS from 1984 to 2001), for 17 
years, there were 56 Macintosh viruses.  Most were "benign" but 
irritating.  Macintosh System version 9.2 ended life with no known 
viruses that could infect it in 2001.  

macOS X operating system, introduced in 2001, has had zero viruses for 
19 years.  None.  I have, however, read of one theoretical virus that 
was proposed, but never found in the wild, back around 2003 IIRC.  

It's important to distinguish between a virus, adware, key loggers, 
Trojan horse, and now ransomware.  There are different threats and 
scams to fool people into downloading something that tries to get a 
credit card number.  

Last I checked macOS X had a few ransomeware items, An example is FBI 
Scam from 2013.   

Last I checked macOS X had approximately 19 Trojan horses with most 
being made moot by changes made by Apple. 0

For several years, Microsoft Office malicious macros could be 
transmitted to Mac from an Office program but this problem has really 
almost died out.  

I've read of one item that was a problem by using a fake Adobe Flash 
installer.  It bypassed Apple's Gatekeeper because it had a "signed" 
certificate from Apple which was then revoked by Apple. 

There have been some cryptocurrency malware items.  How many people 
here deal with cryptocurrency?  

If you want to read some more about the few potential threats, go to 
this article in MacWorld UK.  

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Denver Dan 


On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:27:17 -0600, DavidU wrote:
In the past members of this group have said there are no viral 
threats to Macs, but this article suggests that has changed.



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Re: Apple's OSX computers now being hit with twice as much malware as PCs

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On Feb 13, 2020, at 6:27 AM, DavidU wrote:

In the past members of this group have said there are no viral threats to Macs, but this article suggests that has changed.The article is from a non-Macintosh-concerned Web site, and it cites a company that wants to sell you anti-virus software.

Even at that, the article says:

"And if you know what you're doing on the Web, you're still almost totally safe on a Mac."

My suggestion is that you only get your Macintosh advice from Macintosh experts, or at the minimum, Macintosh-related sources.  Most other sources either don't know what they are talking about, or they want to screw you and take your money.

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Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance

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Re: New Charger Tech

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AFAIK, fast-charge capable iPhones indeed need no more than 18W for best speed. But fast-charge capable iPads with USB-C connector can use more; according to this test, up to about 35W for a 2018 iPad Pro. (which I think comes with an 18W charger, decent but not the fastest for it)

The meters shown in the pictures in the above article aren't that expensive (roughly $30-$50, but you may need at least two to test everything: one USB-A and one USB-C).

I recall reading that the 1st gen iPad Pro (Lightning connector) could use a 30W USB-C charger, but anything more would not be faster.

I have various 5W, 12W, 18W, 30W or so Apple chargers; and an 85W (laptop) charger too. I guess I'd do best with the 85W for the laptop, the 30W for the iPad Pro, and the 18W (from the iPad Pro) for the iPhone X (using USB-C to Lightning ?cable).

Then again, I have a Sanho HyperJuice battery pack that can put out up to 100W on USB-C. ?Kept laptop, phone, and watch near 100% for a cross-country flight, even using the laptop most of the time and leaving the other two on. And it still 1/3 or more charge left. ?Pretty good, I think.

AFAIK, yes, GaN circuitry can result in a smaller charger, but total power + protocols (USB PD or older proprietary protocols for agreeing on how what device wants), not the type of solid-state tech, determines charge rate. ?GaN should also be significantly more efficient (smaller difference between power in and power out of the charger) and run cooler when a device is actually plugged into the charger.

If smaller matters, or (maybe) if max efficiency when actually charging matters (if device is left plugged in most of the time and used heavily, or perhaps for a battery pack's circuitry, given the efficiency advantage), consider newer tech; ?otherwise, a quality charger is a quality charger (and most reasonably modern ones should have very low "vampire" draw, i.e. when plugged in to wall outlet but no device plugged into the charger); so if those don't matter, paying a premium for newer tech may not be useful.

All from a few quick googles; I'm certainly no expert!

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On Feb 13, 2020, at 17:34, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io <jimdoc@...> wrote:

Daniel Settles wrote:
Jim, do you have the brand mentioned in the article? ? RAVpower IIRC?

Mine are Aukey 18w PD charger. A little cube with one slanted side, and a fold-out plug.

What's your opinion of it and of charging speed??

Charging speed is significantly faster than an “iPad” charger, but I haven’t timed?it. It has a single USB-C port.?
I think I once had a problem with an Aukey charger (sparking when plugged in) and they *promptly* sent a replacement, without requiring return of the defective one.

I saw testing 1-2 years ago from a Mac e-zine about charging speeds with?various power-delivery methods. They determined that 30- or 60- or 85-watt?chargers didn’t charge an iPhone X any faster than did an 18-watt charger, so I?didn’t go for a higher power one.

Anker, who I think makes RAVPower products (I have some of their products?also), is also a very reliable company.

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Re: New Charger Tech

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Daniel Settles wrote:

Jim, do you have the brand mentioned in the article? ? RAVpower IIRC?

Mine are Aukey 18w PD charger. A little cube with one slanted side, and a fold-out plug.

What's your opinion of it and of charging speed??

Charging speed is significantly faster than an “iPad” charger, but I haven’t timed?it. It has a single USB-C port.?

I think I once had a problem with an Aukey charger (sparking when plugged in) and they *promptly* sent a replacement, without requiring return of the defective one.

I saw testing 1-2 years ago from a Mac e-zine about charging speeds with?various power-delivery methods. They determined that 30- or 60- or 85-watt?chargers didn’t charge an iPhone X any faster than did an 18-watt charger, so I?didn’t go for a higher power one.

Anker, who I think makes RAVPower products (I have some of their products?also), is also a very reliable company.

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Jim Saklad
jimdoc@...

Re: New Charger Tech

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Howdy.

Jim, do you have the brand mentioned in the article?   RAVpower IIRC?  

What's your opinion of it and of charging speed? 

Denver Dan 


On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:33:26 -0500, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io wrote:
Daniel Settles wrote:
Interesting article about a new charger technology that we all may soon 
hear more about. 

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