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 Noun Project. This is *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 It isn’t super easy as all the firmware is out of date, so here’s goes a long evening of fixing things: Getting the batteries charged, there is a charger with two outputs, pop […]

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 have a dedicated machine which […]

This seems like it would be so easy, you can do it if you load it into iMovie, but if you want to do it really quickly, you have to use 5 year old software. mpegstreamclip does this, you just load the file and choose Extract/Video and it works. Useful if you want to just […]

Well windows has sure gotten more complicated. Getting telnet running take three steps  You need to run the Super Administrator mode for the command line. This is pretty hidden right now particularly if you are Running a windows tablet and it is not clear how to right click. The trick is to long press and […]

Well if you want to capture multiple videos from a Mac and potentially mix them here are some applications to try: Capturesync. Best Software has this, in experimenting, it is nice because it puts all of the video into a single file. Since it is recasting files it is CPU intensive. Works fine with three […]

Well it seems pretty clear the Mavic Pro is the most awesome drone right now, but as usual, you need a host of accessories. The drone was really hard to get a launch, but now there are bunch of places which will set you back about $1500 mainly for the batteries. DJI Mavic Pro. This […]

Well since I’ve been buying so much now’s a great time to ask how to optimize for purchases. Two pointers: Amazon. You can get 3 JetBlue Points per Amazon purchase just by clicking through. That’s about a 5% discount. You can also get a straight 5% off by using an Amazon Store Card, so that’s […]

OK, for the third time this year, I’m outfitting someone’s home with enough of a backend that they should be relatively stable, here’s a guide to how to do this: The right NAS Synology DS216J. There are a host of models that Synology has, but even the most basic $170 computer gives you a RAID-1 […]

Well it’s time once again to make USB boot disks, I’ve been using Diskmaker X forever, but with Sierra, there are some idiosyncratic things: Download from the Mac App Store the Sierra download. This will take a while as it it is over 4GB, but this is the image that Diskmaker X uses. Make sure […]