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Continue reading →: web: Changing your company name on Google, AWS and Netlify
So, you think that “A Bucket of Chicken” is not a good name for your company because abucketofchicken.com is taken, well the answer is that it’s actually pretty easy in the modern world to change the name of your company, here are the steps: Add your new domain names to…
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Continue reading →: tech: USB C Magnetic Adapter and LED Display
Well, the good old USB C cables are getting a bit of a makeover, there are two innovations that are just great:
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Continue reading →: Mac: Ventura Keyboard Modifiers
OK, a small detail with Ventura (and Sonoma), the System Preferences gave way to System Settings and everything moved around. One of the more annoying places is with keyboard modifiers, the Option key ⌥ and Command Key ⌘. The confusing thing is where swapping these two keys went. The Mac…
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Continue reading →: home: Blizzard of new Apple Home connections from curtains to switches to A/C
Well, I’ve been busy as the Apple Home is rapidly evolving through a combination of Homebridge plug-ins that allow great access to all devices and also the coming of Matter and Thread. So I’m working on two things: Apple Home Architecture Update What has happened this quarter is that we…
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Continue reading →: mac: Network Service Order, Drobo, and Stats
Now why would you ever want to do this, well, in my case, I have a Thunderbolt doc so can get to the LAN at 1Gbps (and someday 2.5Gbps if I ever get the time to add a 2.5Gbps switch and upgrade my NAS to 2.5Gbps from the current 2x…
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Continue reading →: net: UniFi 3.0
Well, we’ve been waiting a long time for older devices like the Unifi Dream Machine and the Unifi Dream Machine Pro to finally move from the 1.x branch to the new 3.0 and it finally happened about three months ago. Having migrated five UDMs and a UDM Pro. Evan McCann…
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Continue reading →: travel: Hell and leave enough layover time and avoid digital keys
OK, I haven’t had such a terrible travel experience in 10 years, but some notes (for those of you who want to avoid the disastrous trip we just went through): Connections have at least a day layover (especially NYC, Chicago) Don’t, just don’t. But if you have to then if…
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Continue reading →: Apple: iPhone and qi2
Well this piece summarizes it well. iPhones 12, 13 and 14 support MagSafe with a 15W maximum and can use Qi chargers but only up to 7.5W (and sometimes 5W). The new Qi2 chargers use the same magnets as the MagSafe and will provide 15W but only for qi2 compatible…
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Continue reading →: home: Apple Gizmo, Gadgets and Accessories Review
I finally got six weeks worth of Amazon orders and gadgets, and here is a review of the various components: Here are the ones I haven’t tried but will review shortly, but here are some automotive and things: The accessories for the Zoom Studio I’ve been building: Then there are…
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Continue reading →: web: Got $5 from browsing with Brave Rewards
Well, it took six months to figure out how to do it, but Brave has this feature where they throw up ads and then pay you in their own coin and it is complicated to get this running and to get the money out. Here are the steps: So if…