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A recent home renovation project presented an opportunity for me to get started on implementing some home automation features. A key component in a home automation setup is the controller. There are many of them around, with ...
Category: Technology
All technology things, computers, networking, IT security, etc.
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Logitech’s UE Boom 2 and UE Megaboom portable Bluetooth speakers have a new tick up their sleeves. You can now talk to them. No, I don’t mean as a speakerphone. You can give commands to the speakers, like, for ...
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When Leagoo sent me their new Shark 1 flagship last month, I was really intrigued. That the phablet was huge, with a 6-inch display, is one thing. That it packed a 6300 mAh battery, that was amazing. Then, all of that fit in a ...
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For most people, file systems are boring stuff. It’s about how stuff gets organised in a disk. It’s not about how you organise your stuff, but how your computer puts your stuff in a hard disk drive, SSD, flash drive ...
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WWDC 2016 keynote has come and gone, and there’s no hint of any new hardware. No new MacBook Pro. No new Macbook Air. No new MacBook. It’s not that we expect hardware announcements at WWDC, since the ...
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Of late, I’ve been struggling to fix an annoying anomaly on my blog. I had noticed that posts shared from my blog to Facebook were showing with the wrong post details. Instead of showing the specific title and content ...
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At some point, your computer gets old, and you buy a new one. Then, what do you do with your old computer? Perhaps some people may re-use the hard disks. But if not, then what do you do with them? Do you just dump them in the ...
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Some of us worry that Google, Facebook, and others too, know too much about us. For example, do they listen to us? Like, for example, every time you voice something to Google with “Okay Google”, what happens? They ...
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I’ve officially started my foray into home automation projects with the procurement of this tiny Z-Wave radio daughterboard for the Raspberry Pi. This is the Z-Wave.me RaZberry PI GPIO Daughter Card. It’s really ...
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If you haven’t been living under a rock, you should have heard of Pebble. They launched their original Pebble smartwatch in 2012 on Kickstarter to a record success. Their sequel Pebble Time also scored a new funding ...