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Man this medicare stuff is complicated. Here are some notes and tips on: Plan A This is the hospital related. You pretty much always get this if you worked or your spouse every worked it is free. Otherwise you have to pay a premium of $400/month or so to the government. Part B This is…

Now that there is 1TB for free per account up there, it’s time to figure out how to use it, here are some tips: There is an automagic uploader, it watches files on your Mac and when it sees a change, it does an automatic upload and discards duplicates. It automatically sorts the photos by…

Well, while Photos may look good, it surely is sad to lose iPhoto for a couple of reasons: Storage. If you don’t use Photos to store you library, then it creates a resources file that is unlinked which can double your disk usage. This makes Photos essentially useless for those of us who want to…

Well I haven’t had time to analyze things, but late breaking facts: Intel SSD 750 vs Samsung. The new Samsung M.2 will be x4 PCI Express with NVMe, they give a real run for the money for the Intel PCIe Express slot cards. I love the idea of a 2400MBps read with 70K IOPs and…

Well the portal may be dead, but they do have this Amerideal thing. You have to opt in but some incredible deals are: 10% off of Starbucks purchases which is incremental to the points you earn. 15% off of Sears and combining that with a click through Alaska Airlines of 5 miles/$ (worth about 10-11%)…

Last year was just an also year for getting more point. We got over 50K incremental points just by using the BoA portal. He deals were amazing. 15 points for beats at one point.  The top purchase sites were overstock, Rakuten, best buy and staples. As well as Walmart and target.and quill. And that site…

Well, I got the SLI actually running, but it looks like you get some pretty strange artifacts when you run nvidia-xconfig –sli=auto, so you are warned. I’m not sure what the right approach is here, but the code looks like. Also if you have two monitors connected, then if you make on them primary, but…

OK, I’m probably the only person who has ever had this happen, but it is confusing. We have two monitors setup going to two computers. One has DVI connected to both and the other has HDMI connected to both. This allows each computer to drive two monitors or when both are up, you just switch…

We need a real NVidia card for testing and it’s hard to find a low profile low height with Techreport doing a great analysis. The short thing is that the Antec is very low profile and also single slot with less than 20mm thick.  The analysis is interesting and shows the onboard i5 Is actually…

Well there are definitely some tips and tricks here to get Windows 8.1 to live on one SSD and Ubuntu to live a different SSD and then finally to have a data SSD that both can use. Here’s how to do it: 1. Install Windows 8.1 first because Windows doesn’t work with Ubuntu. The easiest…