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As Airbnb agrees to hotel taxes and things the costs will rise but a 20% off gift card will take some of the sting away this Christmas from giftcardmall.com. I’ve found really reliable and got amazon and other cards that way. 

Well the thing has been super trustyworthy but lately there have been two problems: Graphics driver crash. The screen locks up and you can see blocks of pixels flashing. Feels like an nVidia driver crash in Sierra. I’ve heard that the increased use of the GPU can cause crashes in…

I used to use Geotag and then Picasa or iPhoto to make these kind of EXIF changes, but each has sadly died. Geotag doesn’t work anymore. Picasa was cancelled as was iPhoto, so there go the free options. The only one I’ve found that works reliably is Adobe Lightroom, but…

With phones dropping the 3.5mm jack its time once again to look at wireless headphones.  One sad thing is the Amazon reviews are pretty worthless. They are filled with fake reviews (I sure hope someone over there is working on this problem).  The review sites are equally useless. Even wirecutter…

Well it sure does look like someone is doing Christmas shopping now and taking notes. Here are some great ones for geeks with a hat tip to 9to5toys.com and to wirecutter.com for the USB-C things as well as Nathan at Google’s recommendations Aukey Dual Port 2.4A Car charger. These are $12 with a…

Cooks Illustrated has a great guide. They recommend the Lodge Cast Iron Skillet. This not expensive and compared with enameled pans they won’t chip and get destroyed. Available at  Amazon  (make sure to click through JetBlue to get 3x miles and use the 5% off Amazon store card) Walmart (make…

Some kids are really sensitive to loud noises. So what’s a parent to do. Well there are nose headphones and ear plugs but what if the sensitivity is super high. Well time to go to the web and find out how the pros do it. First off how are these…

I don’t know if this is true or not but Amazon is supposedly offering a deal for triple jetBlue trueBlue points if you click through the jetBlue site via a special https://trueblue.jetblue.com/group/amazonOffer. jetBlue points are worth 1.5 cents, so this is like getting an additional 4.5% rebate on Amazon purchases!…

If you want to add cute GIFS, GIPHY is a wonder tool for finding the URL and then you just choose Add Image and away you go. It is a nice IOS application as well 🙂

Well, if you laptop fills up with stuff, what’s the easiest way to handle the overflow? Well, for most folks, the simplest thing remains some that is physical. That is, a USB drive. Now a USB flash drive is nice but a little scary in terms of reliability but is…