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Well there isn’t any doubt that DJI has the best drone on paper with the Mavic Pro, but here’s what to watch out for: Hardware issues. Out of the box, the brand new Mavic controller would not pair with the drone. I’m sure they are selling like hot cakes, but…

Well if you are getting back into cycling, it’s a great time to instrument up and DC Rainmaker has the best reviews and for apparel the most important thing is a good big with a good pad Bike computer. I have an old Garmin Edge 800, but many folks are…

Well you do run out of power all the time, then here are some good choices: MacBook Magsafe and special tip. This is the only system that I found where you have a plug in and it works directly to charge a MacBook Pro MagSafe (pre 2016). Also this system uses…

Time once again to look at SD cards as on a shoot you don’t want to run out or have ones that are too slow. The main news here is the increase in performance to U.3 UHS II which is 250MBps way above the previous 80-100MBps on U:1 UHS I.…

Well now that I’m settling down on USB C connectors, time once again to look at various peripherals: Mantiz Venus. Ok this is expensive at $400, but it a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure with room for an nVidia 1080Ti graphics card for instance. It also include full 87 watt power delivery…

OK, so this is a dumb one, I was looking for a shared folder that someone had sent me, a couple of notes: When you get a share, you want to make sure you choose Share and do *not* create a link and share that. The former semantics are that…

OK, just went through this again and I blogged it, but here are some of the quick notes: When you get the Edge Router, the first thing you should do is to upgrade the firmware. The EdgeRouter POE installation didn’t have any Wizards, so you need to go to the…

Well the world has moved way beyond the clipart of Microsoft PowerPoint, so now what’s a person to do if they want really great artwork and beautiful slides. TL;dr First get pretty icons to with Gsuite, you need to export them to WMF and stick them in Google Drawing The…

This drone has been sitting around for a year, so now it’s time to see how to get it back to life. It isn’t super easy as all the firmware is out of date, so here’s goes a long evening of fixing things: Getting the batteries charged, there is a…

I’ve been using Unify for home installations for a while now, so here are some notes on how to use them: Do not just hit the buttons willy nilly. Some like UAPSD can cause big problems as the Wifi access points power down. The admin console is pretty nontraditional, basically, you…