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This is the first time I’ve had this problem, but basically Spotlight indexing is working, but Mac Mail doesn’t seem to ever find anything. I’m not the first person with this problem. But the fix doesn’t seem to work. Doing a rebuild and then deleting the index doesn’t help. I…

Been outfitting a car so get to learn about Gps antennas. The one hertz ones in phones are fine and use all kinds of damping 2 to get higher precision you need a better box. Vbox is 20 hertz. But often disconnects. Try an MCX connector to an external gps.…

Ok I’ve loaded way too many apps. 42GB worth to be precise. One side effect is that spotlight search gets really slow. I’m sure there’s a bad app in there somewhere but try to keep it down. 

Ok, some projects for this year; 55″ Gaming Monitor and nVidia 1080Ti. Last year, we discovered thanks to rtings.com that televisions are great displays. Ended up buying 40″ 4K Samsung monitors for $600 that are just awesome for showing 4 or even six full windows of code. This year, the discovery…

With an Apple phone you can recover through iCloud, by with Google Nexus 5 (as well as Pixel) you can still Go through the debug sequence. Which at its base involves turn the phone on with the sequence by holding volume down while pressing power. This will put you into…

It seems like once a month, I get asked what to install in typical home (that is where nerds to do not live 🙂 so here is the advice: Make sure you have a great access point. There is such a temptation to just get a $50 router, but with…

OK with a few months now of Nexus 5X, MacBook Pro (late 2016) and the new Logitech Brio, here’s a recommendations based on the longer article on long term cords to get in this conversion to USB C connectors for your every day carry (EDC), with the goal being to have…

It’s been a few years since I’ve really had to shoot a big event, but next month, I do need some neat gear. Lensrentals.com (they are having a 10% discount if you order for the summer)  has been a great site for getting things like sport telephotos TL;DR Shooting Canon…

Well, I don’t know how well Apple has really debugged their iCloud Photo Library but here is what I see: Even though I have several phones, iPads and MacBooks set to iCloud Photo Library, they all show different versions of files store on top. When you get to a particular…

We’ve had this bug on several Macs so far, but the symptoms are, the Mac refuses to synchronize up to iCloud, it says you need gobs and gobs of space, but when you look at the photos, there are not nearly that many . Even if you completely deleted everything…