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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:
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Continue reading →: Mac: Ventura Keyboard Modifiers
OK, a small detail with Ventura (and Sonoma), the System Preferences gave way to System Settings and everything moved around. One of the more annoying places is with keyboard modifiers, the Option key ⌥ and Command Key ⌘. The confusing thing is where swapping these two keys went. The Mac…
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Continue reading →: home: Blizzard of new Apple Home connections from curtains to switches to A/C
Well, I’ve been busy as the Apple Home is rapidly evolving through a combination of Homebridge plug-ins that allow great access to all devices and also the coming of Matter and Thread. So I’m working on two things: Apple Home Architecture Update What has happened this quarter is that we…
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Continue reading →: mac: Network Service Order, Drobo, and Stats
Now why would you ever want to do this, well, in my case, I have a Thunderbolt doc so can get to the LAN at 1Gbps (and someday 2.5Gbps if I ever get the time to add a 2.5Gbps switch and upgrade my NAS to 2.5Gbps from the current 2x…
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Continue reading →: net: UniFi 3.0
Well, we’ve been waiting a long time for older devices like the Unifi Dream Machine and the Unifi Dream Machine Pro to finally move from the 1.x branch to the new 3.0 and it finally happened about three months ago. Having migrated five UDMs and a UDM Pro. Evan McCann…
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Continue reading →: travel: Hell and leave enough layover time and avoid digital keys
OK, I haven’t had such a terrible travel experience in 10 years, but some notes (for those of you who want to avoid the disastrous trip we just went through): Connections have at least a day layover (especially NYC, Chicago) Don’t, just don’t. But if you have to then if…