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OK, I had no idea this was so easy (and so hard to remember). I’m glad the days of function keys are over because remembering these is impossible but from Apple, here’s how to do screen grabs without having to start the screen Grab app: Shift-Command-3 will grab the entire…

If you’ve gotten a new Mac, you do have to make some te it is safe and sound. Looking at https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-antivirus,review-2588-6.html the big thing is to find a decent antivirus program and then install the following Avast which is free and well rated Turn on the firewall in system preferences/firewall…

Well it’s that time of year when kids are going back to school and for those lucky enough to attend college for the first time, it’s time to figure out what laptops to get. Here are the good, better and best recommendations. Good: Dell XPS 13 (2018) $1300 This is…

Regardless of whether or not grilled meat will eventually kill you, to me it is kind of worth it, there is nothing like a double thick cut of T-bone grilled at 600 degrees and then moved over to the radiant side to cool to a perfect medium rare. Wirecutter.com actually…

Well, I hope everyone is doing the basics of keeping safe. Right now there are so many phishing attacks it is ridiculous. To review the recommendations they are in priority order with difficulty of doing listed: Use different password for every account. This is actually pretty hard to do, but using…

Vlad recently asked me for some advice with biking and getting start again, it made me thing about how getting people into sports is so important. I’m so grateful that various folks like Brad, Steve or Mark got me into cycling and skiing. When I think about it, I realize…

Well someone asked what you should get when you go car camping, here are some suggestions, the first is that you want to maximize comfort and fun. The whole point of car camping is to make sure your family and friends want to go again. With that in mind, here…

Ok this is a little bit of a nerd topic, but Tesla updated their Model X 75 and 100 sometime in mid 2017 so they produce more power. It is pretty incredible that you can do this in firmware, but the power went from 380 horsepower to 430 horsepower. Wow,…

With the Tour de France in full swing, it’s time to look at the latest in bicycle technology. This year the big news is that disc brakes and aerodynamics are all the rage. Most of the new bikes have only an ounce or so difference, so if you have the…

Silly reason really. But if you have some audiobooks that are formatted as mp3, then you can’t just use iCloud Music Library. The reason is that files that are less than 96Kbps are marked ineligible and will not sync with iCloud, so you have to go back to the ancient…