Category: tech related
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Playing with Pi-Hole While Travelling
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith Tailscale you can easily use a Pi-Hole from wherever you are., as long as Tailscale is connected. It’s easier than travelling with a Pi-Hole and setting it up wherever you are. I’m using it now, on my laptop. The pi-hole is in Switzerland but my laptop is in Switzerland. The…
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Walking by the Sea with a Garmin Virb
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo you walk by the sea and watch the seagulls fly up with something in their beak and then drop it? I did, this morning. I walked by the sea and filmed. You can see the G-force climb up and down with each step. Unfortunately the Garmin virb doesn’t self-level so…
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The Forgotten Phone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUsually if I forget my phone I realise quite fast. Not today. Today I went for half a day without my phone. It was at home and I wasn’t. I used the watch’s LTE connection but a watch can’t do much. People speak of leaving phones at home for runs, and…
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Audiobookshelf and Driving
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an ideal world I would use Audiobookshelf when I’m driving tomorrow. In the real world I can’t, or at least shouldn’t. The reason for this is simple. There is no iOS app which, in turn, means that there is no car play app. Combined this means that if I want to…
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Who Killed Twitter – My Opinion
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo authors wrote books. In these books they speak about whether Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk killed twitter. The answer is neither. If Twitter was alive and healthy it would never have been sold to an individual for four times its value, because its growth potential would have made this absurd. Twitter…
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Migrating Photos from Facebook to Google Photos
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere has been a shift within cloud services such as Google, Facebook and others. That shift is to make migrating photos from one service quick and easy. The old fashioned method would be to download media from service A before re-uploading it to service B. This requires lots of space on hard drives and…
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Experimenting with Linux
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning when I should have been working on the daily blog post I decided to install Ubuntu on an external hard drive to see if it still worked as I remembered it working. It does, sort of. There are two approaches. You could install Linux straight onto the internal HD of a…
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Tired of Garmin and Apple, Playing With Casio
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a while now I have been wearing a Casio and an apple watch or a Garmin and an Apple watch, or a Casio and a Garmin watch or a xiaomi smart band and a casio or a xiaomi smart band and… it goes on. ## A Break of Routine The reason…
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Waiting
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I write this I am waiting for my Apple Laptop to complete two tasks. The first task is to convert all my audible books from AAX to MP3 format. This is taking days to complete because I have over 500 books and my mac book pro is slow, due to it being…
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Of Photos, Aperture, and Sliding Between Volumes
Reading Time: 4 minutesOver the years I have used Aperture, Picasa and the Apple Photos Apps. In that time they have organised my files chronologically, automatically, as soon as I took pictures, in some cases. ## What They Do Aperture was well behaved. It would organise photos by year, by month and by day, so…