OK having spent a year doing this, if you and your family are all iPhones and Macs, then this is a pretty good solution that is powerful and highly secure and private. That’s because Apple is one of the few companies that encrypts all your photos so they can’t see it. It has limitations, for […]

Certain clients won’t be able to handle these. So if you lose access (it’s been reported for Lenovo Windows machines for instance) then you need to turn them off. You turn these on by going to the Unifi Controller Settings at the lower left and enabling Advanced Settings which include airtime fairness, bandsteering, minimum RSSI, […]

I’ve actually never had a Kindle just crash. In this case, it was on the page to enter a PIN. The solution is pretty simple, if hard to find, but Amazon says, just hold the power button which is on the lower edge of the device down for 40 seconds. Then you release the button […]

OK, I’ve been using Unifi for a while now and making it work properly has always been a bit of chore, particularly in managing what channels to put access points as that requires really looking at interference. But with the latest release, 5.10, this has become much easier: You can’t use the square access points […]

Man talk about undiscoverable. The face and object recognition in Apple Photos is really pretty good but nearly impossible to find. Here are some quick tips To kick it into face recognition most select a photo and then swipe up. Don’t choose edit! You will see a list of faces that it finds. Click on […]

Ok, it’s been a year since I’ve written down a recommendation for building a gigantic computer or any computer for that matter. I haven’t been building many of these now that a basic laptop like the MacBook Pro 15″ is so powerful. And I haven’t been doing much gaming and most of the machine learning […]

Quizzes are a great way to engage website viewers, but what’s an easy way to make one. Unfortunately Elementor doesn’t have a quiz widget yet. For flashy shareable quizzes that can go viral, the reviews at themeisle and wpsuperstars.net seem to point to Thrive Quiz Builder as the flashiest. The pricing is complicated, but basically it is […]

I used to use iThemes and WordFence together, but now they really do overlap so now I’ve disabled WordFence to simplify things. I still use Updraft Backup instead of the iThemes because it lets you connect to Google Drive or Dropbox. Source: The Best WordPress Security Plugins and Services 2019

Well in the old world, it was pretty easy, use a San Serif font like Helvetica for the headlines because it was bold and then a serif font like Times Roman for the type because serif is easier to read. Now with a zillion fonts, things have gotten way more complicated. There are font viewers, […]

I’ve been looking for some fonts that look “colonial” or ancient. This led to finding IM Fell which are Google Free fonts that actually digitized from some existing tests done by Dr. John Fell that were cut in 1672 or so. The Fell Types: a history and some revival fonts created by Igino Marini using […]