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OK when you are traveling, you are going to hit a couple of strange situations. Here’s a tip list on what to do and to avoid when you are using an inflight, airport, hotel or public wifi spot. The net is that many of the security and convenience things you…

Well I need some more SD cards and I forgot them for this trip so what to get for a Sony A7R III. First thing is that they have two different readers. The slot 1 is a UHS-II with up to 300MBps write speed while slot 2 is slower. So…

OK, in the continuing mission to archive all that is interesting. This comes from ancient history, but I remember reading this memo to this day. John Walker was the founder of Autodesk and he was really worried about what was going to happen as mass market beat high profit small…

The new droplet on Digital Ocean has been working really well. Much faster than bluehost, but I am getting an outage about once every two weeks. The droplet seems to hang with a “no database connection” message. I normally just restart the droplet, but it is not good. The bluehost…

Well there are many new things in IOS 13, but one of the nice things is the markup tools. Now when you take a screenshot on your ipad, by pressing (hat tip to TapSmart) the power and the volume up buttons, you can add markup to it and then hit…

Hat tip to Apple News (apple.news/Adc-k1z4WPyGVGEjkLFK-rg) and to Fossbytes (https://fossbytes.com/4-new-electric-cars-make-millions-evs-audi/) for explaining the various platforms that VW is going to use over the next few years. To review Tesla platforms To review, car manufacturers often use the same guts underneath and put different stuff on top as an example, here…

lifehacker.com/zip-together-two-freezer-bags-to-make-one-large-one-1839012018 explains that you can make a double sized ziplock really easily, just turn one inside out and you can put a double length thing inside. Really smart.

Wow such a small change, such a big nightmare. The Unifi Controller is dependent on the right Java runtime. Oracle has been constantly tightening their licensing, making it harder and harder to just run Java. So in the last few years, Apple stopped shipping the JRE. So Ubiquiti took up…

Wow, well as usual, Apple announced their latest iPhone and their focus on the camera and battery life are pretty incredible. The new iPhone Pro supports simultaneous video recording with a feature called Multicam. In fact with the Pro, it can record four video stream simultaneously. This is super cool…