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Wow their tech support is good, but they don’t document what to do with the Mac Firewall on. It is pretty simple if arcane (and maybe this is why tunnelblick has been such a problem): Download Private Internet Access Choose settings and select TCP and port 443 That’s it and…

These days it really doesn’t pay to get anything less than Cat 6 (so you are ready for 1GB) and the prices are really amazing if you shop, so here: Amazon.com. As usual this is the benchmark. With Cablematters 5×5 feet at $11 ($2.20 a cable), 5×10 feet for $17…

Well here’s another interesting thing, if you didn’t get AppleCare , then you really want it for your MacBook Pro, it retails for $349, but here are the deals. S3142LL/A looks like the auto enroll for the MacBook Pro 15 and 17 and MD012LL/A is the non-autoenroll version part number. There is also…

Well here’s another interesting thing, if you didn’t get AppleCare , then you really want it for your MacBook Pro, it retails for $349, but here are the deals. S3142LL/A looks like the auto enroll for the MacBook Pro 15 and 17 and MD012LL/A is the non-autoenroll version part number. There is also…

This seems to be the fastest low profile card that will fit into an Antek ISK-300/150 box. Here are the best prices but it is the eVGA GT 730 DDR5 2GB card: PCPartspicker.com. $71 from SuperBiiz which is cheap although their resellerratings.com are not the best (6.9/10) Neweggbusiness.com. $76 with…

They really do have incredibly low prices and you can these days quadruple dip with: Go to cashbackmonitor.com to find a direct rebate Use your credit card which has points Search retailmennot.com and other sites for promo codes. Right now they are $15 off of $100 although this doesn’t seem…

This stopped working, but was just great. Thank goodness for Google, looking at http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=94567 and it points out it is a security issue, you have to go to Package Center and select Any Publisher in the settings as this application isn’t signed or approved by Synology. However, the folks at the Synology…

We had a bunch of slowdowns on iPhones here. Dropping to 600KBps on the network rebooting the comcast router seems like the main cure.  But macs have suddenly become unreliable. I’ve been battling vpn software for a while. Used tunnelblick for a while but it seems unstable. Moved to privateinternetaccess’a…

Man this medicare stuff is complicated. Here are some notes and tips on: Plan A This is the hospital related. You pretty much always get this if you worked or your spouse every worked it is free. Otherwise you have to pay a premium of $400/month or so to the…

Now that there is 1TB for free per account up there, it’s time to figure out how to use it, here are some tips: There is an automagic uploader, it watches files on your Mac and when it sees a change, it does an automatic upload and discards duplicates. It…