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Continue reading →: Get out from under Verizon permacookies
You have to opt out, but here’s a way to get rid of Verizon marketing cookies (the other way is to use a VPN).
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Continue reading →: Learning Swift and the Best of Both Worlds play
Well, having suffered through Objective C and liked XCode compiler, it has sure been interesting to see what Apple has come up next with Swift. It’s the brain child of Chris Lattner. He’s had a pretty incredible career, developing LLVM (a compiler backend) and then Clang (a front end) and…
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Continue reading →: iPhone confusion Photostream vs Photo Library
Are you confused as to the best workflow for your iPhone photos. I am! At least for my traditional photos, I get it, here’s what I do: Download the photos Delete the ones I don’t like. I’ve been using Preview when it isn’t too slow (but it’s gotten unbearable with…
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Continue reading →: Baby (Elder) monitor and Door sensors
Well sometimes life seems to be a circle. What’s a great baby monitor is also a great way to monitor what’s going on with dear old dad. That plus a door sensor and you don’t need to worry. There seem to be two sorts of gadgets. Things like Dropcam Pro…
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Continue reading →: Bank of America Rewards Mall
Sad to saying it is closing the Bank of America mall is closing. We discovered it last year and got over 55K points just by being careful where you click. Probably makes your first choice looking at cashbackmonitor.com and en evreward.com, but neither are as tasty as those ML Signature…
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Continue reading →: Dying hard drives…WD makes it easy
Well it seems like hard drive failure month for me. Here are the drives, for personal machines, we are putting SSDs in as they are much faster and more reliable iMac 2009. Yuck, this one is going to be hard to get out. It’s buried and I have to figure…
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Continue reading →: Apple Magic Mouse will not connect
Have you ever had this problem? Sometimes, the keyboard and the mouse just refuse to connect. Dave Meehan has some good tips. Basically they are: For the keyboard, put in new battery and HOLD down the Power button while powering up, this will reset the pairing. For the mouse, if it…
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Continue reading →: Learning Javascript
Well things are always getting easier: atom.io. This is a Chromium application written itself to be compatible with node.js and javascript. Wow how flexible is that. cdnjs.com. If you don’t want to host all those minified libraries when you are playing with Javascript.
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Continue reading →: Don't put into extraneous information into sites!
Well, here’s the best reason to keep the information you put into a site at the minimum, the latest hack is from Amazon’s Twitch: We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some of your Twitch user account information, including possibly your…
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Continue reading →: Bivy Sacks the OR Helium
Well another last minute purchase. We’ve got a camping hammock for the woods, how about a bivy sack and nothing like 24 hours to buy one! So here’s a quick look at reviews from Outdoorgearlabs.com (they only review a few, but it is the base recommendation) and also looking at reviews…