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Continue reading →: It is not easy to gift someone a video
In the modern world, it is not easy just to send someone a digital gift. As an example, for Lucas who is headed off to New York, we wanted to send the quintessential 1980s movie about geeks living in the city, After Hours, but how do you do that in…
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Continue reading →: This is why I can’t wait for Starlink vs Comcast
I finally had a chance to read the Comcast latest agreement and it just reinforces why these kinds of contracts are just super unfair. The net is that you literally have no idea or any control as to when and how they raise prices. Geez, I can’t believe people are…
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Continue reading →: Cool Tesla Model 3 Accessories
Well, if you have an older Tesla Model 3 from say the golden age of 2019, then there are some things that you have to get to keep up with the new Model 2021. Here’s a short list from two great vendors, Evannex and Abstract Ocean of things on top…
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Continue reading →: More Mother’s Day Posts; Smashed potatoes
Well, we’ve had lots of variants of Smashed potatoes and they are so fine. The basic idea is that you par boil the potatoes first to get them nice and tender, then you smash them gently with the bottom of a glass so they are squished, but not pulverized. Finally,…
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Continue reading →: When you forget you have an Apple pencil how to use Scribble and get it to charge again
Well, I have used the Apple Pencil with dedicated writing applications like Nebo but it is a pain to copy and paste. So I fired up the pencil for the first thing is turning Scribble on in the settings menu. What is not obvious is how to get started. What…
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Continue reading →: Random stuff Apple TV remote pairing
It used to be that any Apple remote would just work with an Apple TV. But sometime in the distant past, Apple added some like security. So if you for instance lose your remote you have to manually pair it to your Apple TV. So what if you are an…
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Continue reading →: Marketing interviews and decoder ring
Ok folks can mean a bunch of different things when they talk about marketing. And One of Graces friends asked an overview and help on interview questions. It’s actually a broad topic since people mean so many different thing when they say marketing. I’m definitely no expert by tl;dr when…
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Continue reading →: Notes on Using Hey Siri on your Mac and iPhone and HomePods…
Well, now that I have all of these devices, it is pretty complicated to figure out how to get Hey Siri working properly across all of them. First, this actually works really well with a “cloud” of HomePod Minis at home, It is pretty crazy that you can literally whisper…
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Continue reading →: Cross-posting from WordPress to Reddit (but not Instagram and maybe Medium…)
Well, one of these days, I’ll move my main site to the JAMStack, but for now, I’m still on WordPress for tong family.com and one of the cool things that jetpack gives you for free is cross posting to Facebook, Twitter, Linked and Tumblr I think. As an example right…
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Continue reading →: Rich is on Ryan’s Ride the Lightening Tesla Unofficial Podcast
I’ve been meaning to these but @ryan is completely amazing and a great commentator. Listen to episode 300 where I’m the pro tip of the week! Long and short use abrp for long road trips and charge at v3 stops because you don’t share with the other station. On Apple,…