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Well sometimes life seems to be a circle. What’s a great baby monitor is also a great way to monitor what’s going on with dear old dad. That plus a door sensor and you don’t need to worry. There seem to be two sorts of gadgets. Things like Dropcam Pro…

Sad to saying it is closing the Bank of America mall is closing. We discovered it last year and got over 55K points just by being careful where you click. Probably makes your first choice looking at cashbackmonitor.com and en evreward.com, but neither are as tasty as those ML Signature…

Well it seems like hard drive failure month for me. Here are the drives, for personal machines, we are putting SSDs in as they are much faster and more reliable iMac 2009. Yuck, this one is going to be hard to get out. It’s buried and I have to figure…

Have you ever had this problem? Sometimes, the keyboard and the mouse just refuse to connect. Dave Meehan has some good tips. Basically they are: For the keyboard, put in new battery and HOLD down the Power button while powering up, this will reset the pairing. For the mouse, if it…

Well things are always getting easier: atom.io. This is a Chromium application written itself to be compatible with node.js and javascript. Wow how flexible is that. cdnjs.com. If you don’t want to host all those minified libraries when you are playing with Javascript.

Well, here’s the best reason to keep the information you put into a site at the minimum, the latest hack is from Amazon’s Twitch:   We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some of your Twitch user account information, including possibly your…

Well another last minute purchase. We’ve got a camping hammock for the woods, how about a bivy sack and nothing like 24 hours to buy one! So here’s a quick look at reviews from Outdoorgearlabs.com (they only review a few, but it is the base recommendation) and also looking at reviews…

Well, our trusty Canon MX700 finally gave up the ghost. Sad to see, it is was quite reliable and we used the scanning and copying. The consumables were ridiculous, but at least they were the same as the Pro9000 we have. With camera phones, it isn’t clear how important scanning…

Time for every quarter hack of a major company. This time of you Premera. I hope you don’t use the same password for everything! Time to change passwords. Ugh!

Well, I never thought we’d really be here, but here’s a list of home healthcare things that hopefully you’ll never need. Many of these are reimbursable by Medicare, but you have to get a doctors prescription and then use an approved provider. Sometimes Amazon is just easier. There doesn’t appear…