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Continue reading →: Latest American Express credit card tips
Man, this is a really fast moving world, but basically both Amex and Chase have been raising the prices of their premium cards a lot so you have to really keep base with the deals to make them worth it: Walmart+. You can get the monthly Walmart+ members costing $12.95/month…
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Continue reading →: WiFi 6E finally arrived with Unifi 6 Enterprise and Samsung S22+ and WiFi Bridge Mode
Well, the first WiFi 6E devices are finally arriving. As an example, the still in early access Ubiquity Access Point WiFi 6 Enterprise (U6 Enterprise) is available. At the maximum, it has 4×4 MU-MIMO in 6, 5, and 2.4GHz. It does need a 2.5Gbps Ethernet connection to really make this…
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Continue reading →: Omron BP7000 and Brother P-Touch needs lithium or alkaline batteries
Certain electronic devices can’t get by with the normal NiMH batteries, for instance, our Brother P-touch PT70BM label maker needs 1.5V and it won’t work with normal rechargeables so you need to install Lithium batteries if you want a rechargeable solution like these USB rechargeable AAA batteries from Pownergy or…
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Continue reading →: What?! Twitter is the best place for AI
Well, I would never have thought it, but in addition to being a cesspool of negative thoughts and cat pictures, Twitter it turns out is becoming the place where new papers and work get announced. But of course, you have to be smart about the feed that you are using,…
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Continue reading →: SharePlay Movies are confusing
OK, so Apple just announced their equivalent of Netflix Party, called SharePlay, so you can now watch movies together with friends over a FaceTime chat, but it is bizarrely complicated to figure out how to do it. There are application-specific ways to do this using Disney+ Watch Parties, but this…
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Continue reading →: Moving a Eufy Camera to a new HomeKit account
This is actually very hard. Originally, when Apple had a five-camera limit on HomeKit Secure Video recording, we had two accounts both with Apple One on them. One had two houses in the family with three cameras. And the other five cameras. We also had Meross smart switches, Philips Hue…
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Continue reading →: Making Zoom backgrounds from iPhone Videos convert to H.264 from HEVC
Turns out that you would think that a simple drag and drop would suffice. Well it turns you guessed wrong. Here are the steps to take your nice video and make it work for Zoom backgrounds First of all, there are a set of requirements in the base hardware and…
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Continue reading →: Tearing my Hair out GogoInflight to work (part trois) on my MacBook Pro and iPhone
OK, last month, the big victory was getting Gogo Inflight to finally work on my iPhone 12 Pro Max with Alaska Airlines (I don’t know if it will work elsewhere, but it does work now). Now, the next confusing mix of solutions, but I finally got it to work by…
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Continue reading →: Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro SE mouse and MM1000 mousepad tricks
Wow, this is one confusing mouse. I got it over the simple Apple Mouse for one reason, it has Qi charging in it, so you don’t have the flip the mouse over on its belly and charge it. Otherwise, it is pretty much a huge pain because it is targeted…
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Continue reading →: Linux USB WiFi Adapters are hard to find
Well, we started with a general list of USB adapters from PC Magazine. These are actually really hard to find because most desktops today have a WiFi adapter. So I start with a list of good USB Adapters and settled on the TP-Link T9UH is the most common for $50…