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It is incredible how fast a MacBook disk can fill up, here’s how to clean it up: Buy Space Gremlin. yes it costs money, but it is worth it. It will give you a graphical view of where all that hard disk space went. iMovies, I do occasional edits and…

Well if you are using a VPN regularly for privacy reasons, you can see definite slowdowns or outright denials. Reddit picked it up first, but apparently Amazon is blocking VPN addresses, trying to go to Canada or perhaps to obfuscated will help. Apparently people are using VPNs to get into other…

Was a different kind of tool, but the guide to Smart Home is started and is up. Kind of a pain to use a different tool, so off to figure out how to cross post from WordPress. I’ve tried the Social plugin, but the fidelity is low. Medium doesn’t seem…

It’s kind of surprising what is allowed and not allowed. One problem is that the iOS Instagram client makes it essentially impossible to navigate through a big photo library, you can search and it is really intended just to load the most recent photos. Plus it’s a tiny screen to…

Wow it used to be that a 200 lumen headlamp was great, but with LEDs comes even better stuff. Here are the top rated things I’ve found thanks to Outdoorgearlabs.com and Switchback Travel: Coast Optics. Buying smaller brands can be great, this is a Portland company and their HL-7 is top…

OK, I’m trying to see if iCloud Photo Library is a good place to store things. So I tried uploading 6K (that’s actually a small percentage) of my photos up there. What I found is that Mac Photos hangs after a while. It is showing strange messages in the console…

Man having a Tesla vs having a Bolt, it really does feel like a Mac vs Windows. Normally with Tesla updates, you get an icon and a popup saying an update is available (I’m dying for 18.10.1 by the way for the new vision updates). But if you have an…

We got our Comcast bill down quite a lot (believe me I’m not looking to how much we will have to pay with net neutrality gone :-(), but I was surprised to see the bill pop to $80/month just for Internet. Here’s what I learned: TL;dr. If you are in…

This is actually pretty hard. You either have to just accept the lower resolution you get with Whatsapp or iMessage, or you have to go to great lengths to share high resolution photos. here’s a guide… If you don’t care about privacy and let Google index everything you own: Also…

One annoying thing about AirBNB (there are many things to like!) is the way it handles currency conversions. If you just take the defaults, then you end up paying in your home currency and not the local currency. AirBNB actually charges a 3% conversion fee and it is not clear…