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 pick File Transfer to get […]

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. Finally there is Repel Lemon […]

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 ARM. Man is this a […]

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 are: Install Google Chrome. This […]

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 class and learn, but programming […]

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

Well the kids swear by their Ronstan sailing watches. They are actually made by Optimum Time in the UK, but they are reliable and ubiquitous, but there are definitely other options: Aquastar Match Race 9010 ($120). It is Swiss and has a cool collection of dots at the top for the countdown. Gill Regatta Master […]

Well we ripped out our electrostatic air filters which needed cleaning every three months and put in paper filters. I feel bad about using more paper, but they just plane work better. So I guess I take the recommendation. These filters are really confusing to buy but there are basically two parameters: Size. There is […]

Welcome back to the real world, so you need to change your password right now for but you can check haveibeenpwned.com LinkedIn. They had a massive hack of a 25% of all their passwords. Back in 2012, but they are now on sale now. Tumbler. Same thing back in 2013 but they didn’t tell us until […]