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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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Ok, so we’ve been using Apple Home and the underlying Homekit for the last two years. Given the privacy benefits, we ended up turning off Amazon Alexa, Ring and Google Home as well. The main issue is that there only a limited number of manufacturers who support Homekit natively. So…

It does seem like so many applications want access to the Accessibility settings of MacOS. In looking at my own login, I see no less than 12 applications that want access to it. Why and what does it mean and should I be concerned? Well, the core of it is…

Well, Steve asked me what’s the best way to document your bike tour. He and Deb are going on an awesome ride across America to raise awareness for stroke. So what are the tools you need for the road: Helmet and Bicycle Cameras There are quite a few action cameras…