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Continue reading →: Google Calendar reads your email and so does Apple
If sometimes you see mysteriously a calendar event arrive in Google, that’s because it is looking for email and it tries to interpret it for things like air travel and events. This actually works decently well except when someone forwards their itinerary, things can get confusing. You can turn this…
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Continue reading →: Best Carry On Luggage
Well now that we seem to be getting back to traveling again. Calvin asked what’s a good set of carry on luggage to get. Well I’ve had lots of carry ins over the years and here are some observations: You get what you pay for. Yes you can get $50…
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Continue reading →: Cool Android Addons IR Cameras and Lidar
OK, so one of the great things about Android is how many attachments there are via the USB C port. There are not a lot of real choices here the two big ones are FLIR and Seek according to Digital Camera World and Industrial Reviews as well as TEquipment on…
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Continue reading →: SVB Credit Card Management Tips and Tricks
Well we use Silicon Valley Bank for most of our company banking. It’s a habit because they’ve been so good to us over the years. But, their business account system is pretty hard to navigate. The user interface is deep and there are menus after menus, so here are some…
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Continue reading →: Tool storage boxes for trucks and garages
For a long time, I’ve kept all my tools in various horrible places and they are stacked everywhere. I’ve always wanted a real pro tool cabinet where everything can be in one place. These things are super heavy if they are good, so it’s a good idea to get them…
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Continue reading →: Ah the vagaries of health tracking syncing use Rungap intoApple Health, TrainerRoad TrainingPeaks, Strong, Garmin, Karoo, Omron and Strava
Man it’s just about impossible to figure out what syncs with what and it is always changing what works with what, but the basic problem is that I have no less than six different main places where I’m tracking my workouts and it is so confusing which are and the…
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Continue reading →: Universal Control and iPad for Python
Wow, I can’t believe Universal Control actually works and it is remarkable. First of all the setup is pretty complicated. Here is what you need to do to get this to work: Update iPadOS 15.4 and MacOS 12.4. This means go to System Preferences in MacOS and choose update and…
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Continue reading →: User level file bit rot prevention with rsync -vnarcP and the failure of hashdeep
Back two years ago, I was trying to use hashdeep to make sure that my files particularly JPEGs were not bit rotting. I’ve had dozens of JPEGs die in the past because of bit rot. I had a bad RAID controller 10 years ago that killed a bunch of JPEGs,…
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Continue reading →: Getting 1.4Gbe Xfinity working with Arris SB8200 via UniFi Dream Machine Pro and Unifi 48 VLAN
Well this was some work, but we have the 1.2Gbe/35Mbps and I wanted to figure out a way to do this with my existing hardware, it turns out with some tricks to getting this to work right, but if you want to do something similar here are key tricks. I…
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Continue reading →: Shop Vac 6 Gallon Filter, Detroit and African chips
Ok some truly miscellaneous things on our Amazon shopping list: Shop vac replacement cartridge filter and bags We have shop vac 6 gallon vacuum and it works great, but the filter is completely shot because we used it to vacuum 10 pounds of baking soda that was soaking up mineral…