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This has been the most embarrassing thing lately, we have a great video embedded in Google Slides and it just won’t play. I have PTSD from the many PowerPoint presentations in the last century when you were all queued up to do this and something would just break. Well, this morning when it broke yet…

Ok, there have been an amazing set of new products coming out of Apple and we got the first AirTag just as they were coming out. They are $99 for four of them and we’ve had them now for a few weeks and most importantly took a trip with them. Here are the thoughts: The…

Wow, this is incredibly easy, thank you once again Internet. But IGeeksBlog has a great guide for how to do this. The long story short is that we use Apple Music as part of the Apple One bundle and not Spotify, but sometimes, we get a Spotify playlist. Before it was complicated process of transferring…

Well, I’ve had two DigitalOcean droplets running WordPress for the last two years and I basically haven’t paid them any attention. So, don’t be that person. Either move to a server-less installation where someone else is doing the work. With DigitalOcean, you can create your own droplet which is their term for a virtual server.…

OK, I switched to using Google Contacts mainly because with Superhuman, you are forced to use it with Google Mail. When I was on Apple Mail, I actually used iCloud contacts (more private), but now I’ve had to import all my contacts into Google. That alone was a chore because there are some limits on…

Particularly, when you are finding your way in a new city, one question is how safe is the neighborhood. The best thing to do is to ask a local of course, but if you don’t have anyone that you know. One trick is to look at the crime in your city and then compare it…

Well, after our first trip in ages, I had forgotten how useful Sidecar is. This lets an iPad act as a second screen for your Mac. I had nearly forgotten how to use It, but it isn’t too complicated, if you turn on wifi it just works over that, and with macOS Big Sur, you…

I’m having real trouble “clearing my tabs.” I have this rule that every time I learn something new, I leave it open as a tab on my Mac, phone or iPad. I’m probably right now at over 100 unposted items, so it is pretty out of control. I think I’m changing my strategy to just…

OK, I’ve already posted on this, but it’s a little tricky to figure out how to setup up Google Workspace if you are just doing it for personal reasons and don’t really want everyone in your household to pay $6/month for mail, but you do want vanity domains to work properly. Here is the update…

I get asked a lot what presentation format to use when talking with venture capitalists. Well, I have used many different forms, but it never hurts to first map it to the Sequoia Pitch template. Or course these days, who really even needs to have a pitch or a product, pretty much whispering “bitcoin” will…