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Continue reading →: web: Using Passkeys with 1Password, Google and Amazon
OK, there is this new idea of a passkey that is rolling out and you can look here to see if a site supports it, but the big ones are amazon.com, Best Buy, Google, GitHub, eBay, Instacart, PayPal, Shopify, Tailscale, Synology, Uber. The idea is pretty simple, just as you…
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Continue reading →: apple: Hidden feature Reactions and Presenter Overlay
Wow, Gestures are the coolest and most hidden feature in MacOS Sonoma, but basically, if you are in any kind of video call (Zoom, Meets, etc.), there is an application-independent way to get gesture recognition. Enabling it is nearly impossible when you start your video camera, there is a green…
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Continue reading →: web: SYSTEM ALERT website notification scam
Uh, I thought I had been pretty careful keeping Cruft off of my Mac, but I started getting these scam notifications saying “You have been infected”. WTF! Basic Hygiene: Look for SYSTEMALERT in Safari > Settings > Websites I know exactly what happened, to get a great deal, I had…
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Continue reading →: shop: The miracle that is Temu + Rakuten + Paypal 50% off
Well, I can’t quite believe it, but it feels like it is 1999. Temu has the most incredible triple-stacked deals, here is how it works: Net, net, just with the credit card stuff, you are 36% off and then you add another $20 off with the $20+$60 or 25% off,…
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Continue reading →: web: Netlify DNS Changes don’t always take and Google Workspace authentication
OK, a final followup to the move from Google Workspace to iCloud, I finally got this to work after figuring out the CNAME problem, but what happened is that the Netlify changes to the DNS would not take. I discovered that when you are making lots of changes, Netlify does…
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Continue reading →: web: Moving from Google Workspace to iCloud Custom Email Domains using Apple Mail
OK, now that Google has been raising prices, I’m in the middle of moving accounts from the $6/month for 30GB of storage and email or $18/month for 2TB to iCloud Custom Domains. iCloud allows each family to have up to five custom email domains and you get 2TB of storage…
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Continue reading →: tech: Apple Home Safety Systems Aqara P2 and maybe Owl
If you don’t want to spend a lot on these, I think the current best solution is based on Aqara and then smoke alarms by Life. We’ve been testing this for the past few months at our house and to make an alarm system, you can build an Apple Home…
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Continue reading →: tech: Electronic note taking Kindle Scribe vs iPad Pro long term review
Well, I’ve been trying different ways to take notes for a while. The traditional way is really disruptive, typing into your laptop is really hard to hide and not notice. A traditional pad and paper can work if you use a cool fountain pen, then you can take photos of…
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Continue reading →: web: Changing your company name on Google, AWS and Netlify
So, you think that “A Bucket of Chicken” is not a good name for your company because abucketofchicken.com is taken, well the answer is that it’s actually pretty easy in the modern world to change the name of your company, here are the steps: Add your new domain names to…
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Continue reading →: tech: USB C Magnetic Adapter and LED Display
Well, the good old USB C cables are getting a bit of a makeover, there are two innovations that are just great: