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For whatever reason, this requires quite a few manual steps, but here’s why you want each because Verizon brands this HD Voice and you have to enable it on the Verizon site and then in the iPhone 6 or higher itself: voLTE. This brilliant acronym (voice over LTE) let’s you…

OK, if you are frustrated by the speed and more importantly reliability of that $20/month router you got from Xfinity, then there are really two ways to upgrade: Move to a serious consumer router. I have found that many routers will crash when they have lots of traffic. This happens…

OK, I admit it, after all the harping on backing things up, there is one that I didn’t do. We had a website that was built with a github private repo. Then, we got rid of the site, so I blew away the virtual machine running ghost on Digital Ocean.…

OK, so here are the version bumps for the products I’m using now: DxO OpticsPro Version 11. This bucks the trend where everyone uses Lightroom, but maybe I’m just  a contrarian and like to support small French developers. This is the first step for me and it does automatic distortion…

Android to Mac is pretty mysterious, it doesn’t show up in Mac Photos (of course) nor does it show up as a USB device so you need to: Download Android File Transfer When you plug your Marshmallow phone in, it should pop up the USB transfer select dialog and you…

Well with zika running rampant, Consumer Reports published their list of the best repellants. The best appears to be: 20% picaridin used in Sawyer Picaridin good ol’30% Deet in the Ben’s 30%. (I still have some 100% deet in a bag somewhere, imagine how powerful that is) a close second.…

Well, working with the RPi has been great. The community has been terrific and Raspbian has worked well. Now we are off to try some different platforms mainly to get a more standard graphics core, so looking at the Pine64. This has just shipped and uses the Mali GPU from…

We use Google Slides for casual slide creation and it is pretty good. But what if you want you get a sealed PDF that used to be PowerPoint and and you want to edit it. What’s a person to do. Well it isn’t easy to find, but basically the steps…

In the last seven days, I’ve had two parents ask me what they should do about a teenage girl who wants to program and is general a STEM person. Well there are lots of resources, but programming is a bit of a strange beast. Yes you can sit in a…

A friend mentioned that they had a fried laptop because of spillage. Well, the easiest way to deal with this is to get a Keyboard protector. You have to find one that fits your laptop, but they are pretty cheap. $8 for the ASUS one for instance. Pretty cheap insurance