I just want to vent a touch. Why is it that my “Smart Home” is not very smart? If I look at the 27 connected devices I have in the home, and the names for these devices, it does not seem that hard to make them work across systems. The […]
Technology
Wine cooling system for the room, on the cheap with HomeKit devices
We did a small remodel in our house where we cut a larger room in two so that we could create an area for storage of wine. In the room we have one duct in the floor for heating that I knew eventually I wanted to use for the cooling […]
Publishing with Ulysses
OK.. the new version of Ulysses is out now and it includes the ability to publish straight from the app to WordPress. The great thing is.. not only is it WordPress.com hosted sites, but if you self-host, you can also publish. I’ve recently started moving my writing to the iPad. […]
Apple Notes Slowness on Startup – FIXED!
I was trying to explore switching from Evernote to Apple Notes for a period of time. At some point during this experiment, Apple Notes started acting like a punk.. basically every time I tried to open Notes, the sync to iCloud would freeze up the app for anywhere from 15-60 […]
IDEA: Auto-create tasks from Apple Notes
I am playing around with the Apple Notes app still to see if I could replace Evernote. One of the items I love about Evernote is my ability to see recent notes with checkboxes created in them. There is no way to do this with Apple Notes. It got me […]
Giving up on Photos and iCloud for my photo needs
It’s been a rough time trying to figure out if iCloud and the Photos app was going to be the solution for me. TL;DR – No, it is not for me. I started out on the beta of the photos app. The idea of using iCloud for storage and Photos on […]
iCloud Drive – Apple needs to fix this product
I am not sure why Apple feels the need to restrict the way I use iCloud Drive. They believe they are helping users by trying to take the file system away from the user so they don’t have to think about it. I can’t speak for everyone, but this is […]
Annual Photo Backup Reminder Program
OK.. it’s the end of the year. When was the last time you backed up your photos? I know many of you have a process for backing up of your files. I also know that many of you (despite knowing better) have yet to put the time and effort into […]
Old Webserver written in PERL
I came across some old code I had written a long time ago. I remember seeing a post about accepting webserver traffic by running a PERL Daemon on a machine on port 80. I decided to try it out. It was fun.. and useless. I wish I remember where […]
iCloud Photo Beta update – big miss
I was excited today to hear that iCloud Photo beta was allowing you to upload photos from the web. We all have to wait until next year when the new app comes out, so this was my only way to get old photos back on my phone. (without turning […]