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Continue reading →: How to Connect AirPods to an Apple TV
The Apple TV can send audio directly to your AirPods, AirPods Pro, or AirPods Max wireless headphones, letting you watch videos, play games, or work out with Apple Fitness+ without disturbing anyone else in the room. Here’s how. I never thought I’d need this but it is super handy. Supposedly…
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Continue reading →: Chinese: BBQ Ribs and Wedding phrases
OK, quick ethnic happiness, I’ve been using a tried and true family recipe for BBQ ribs for a while. It’s not complicated, dump some Coca Cola, soy sauce, vinegar and honey into an aluminum foiled wrapped ribs and slow roast. But I decided to actually read up and am trying…
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Continue reading →: Losing my wallet for the last time: Airtags
OK, particularly with the pandemic, I’ve been just horrible with my wallet. When the iPhone 12 came out, I immediately got the MagSafe Wallet and since there were not many around back then, I got the way overprice Apple one. When you combine it with a clear MagSafe case, it…
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Continue reading →: MacBook Pro 2016 and Dual GPS-160A Logging
OK, this is a bit mysterious, but if you are trying to do data recording from the Mac, it is super convenient to be able have a GPS log with time stamps along with your video. While the Mac does capture time super well, what about location. Here is one…
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Continue reading →: Fixing WordPress crashes due to MySQL out of space
OK I get this about three weeks or so on our new DigitalOcean Droplet running WordPress. The good news is the JetPack does inform you when it dies. On Bluehost, this basically has never happened. A restart of the droplet seems to help, but it would be good to figure…
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Continue reading →: Argh, WordPress Editing is so annoying and iOS differences are as well
OK, you are seeing a bunch of posts here that were accidentally put on my unused WordPress hosted blog. The problem is that the really great WordPress editor by default goes to their sites only. You can’t set a custom site (probably because they want to promote their own hosted…
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Continue reading →: Markdown Guide and WordPress Tips
The Markdown elements outlined in John Gruber’s design document. Two quick tips: If you are using the WordPress on an IOS device, it has two very different ways to integrate. If you choose the share button, then from the text actions, you can pick “Save as draft”. This let’s you…
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Continue reading →: Pool Rakes and Skimmers
No I don’t mean the automatic kind, I mean the simple net with a pole, you wouldn’t think it would take so much work to get a simple thing, but even with Fakespot and reading reviews, things are getting past all these systems Do not get the POOLWhale despite the…
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Continue reading →: Using the Obins Anne Pro 2 to get Arrow Keys and work with a Mac
Well, I discarded the keyboard as not usable because it doesn’t have arrow keys like the wired 60% keyboard and it didn’t have arrow keys like the dedicated keys on the Keychron V2. But, it turns out I was wrong about this and didn’t understand how it works. Net, net,…
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Continue reading →: Homekit Tip: Reordering and broken Motion alerts
OK, I think that this Homekit stuff is pretty deep and much of this doesn’t have a guide, but three quick things: Homebridge insights are that this thing actually works really well. It’s a simple node application and using a $50 Raspberry Pi is really the right approach from a…