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  • How I Switched from iCloud Photos to Ksuite+ and Immich

    How I Switched from iCloud Photos to Ksuite+ and Immich

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I turned off iCloud Photo synching, and then I wiped my photos from iCloud Photos but before that I took several precautions. Triple Backup to Apple Devices with Enough Storage The first precaution I took was to ensure that the Photos app on a mac was downloading all the original photos…

  • How to revive an Apple Watch That Won’t Pair After Resetting the Device

    How to revive an Apple Watch That Won’t Pair After Resetting the Device

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the TLDR Crowd. Yesterday after multiple tries to pair my phone with my watch I hard reset the phone and tried again. When it asked me to login to iCloud I did, and then I was able to pair the phone with the watch. For the patient crowd, for several days…

  • Toying With the Idea of Fairphone

    Toying With the Idea of Fairphone

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is an inalienable truth, that within two or three years all of my mobile phones require a battery swap. With an iPhone this costs 67.50 CHF for the SE but only 28 CHF for a fairphone. In light of this it makes sense to recycle the iPhone SE and replace it…

  • Immich and iPhone Storage

    Immich and iPhone Storage

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen experimenting with the Immich iPhone app I found it impossible to upload beyond 15,000 images and I supposed that it was because the phone timed out before it had checked all the previous files before moving on to the last four thousand images. In reality the problem is that Immich downloads…

  • Experimenting with Home Assistant

    Experimenting with Home Assistant

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a long time I wasn’t tempted to play with Home Assistant or the Apple Home app. I don’t have smart light bulbs, or a smart fridge, or a thermostat that I can control remotely. I don’t have solar panels that are feeding a battery. In essence I thought that if I…

  • The iOS Astronomy Wallpaper and Seasons

    The iOS Astronomy Wallpaper and Seasons

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re wondering why one of the tags in my post is “Day 388” it’s because I shifted from WordPress to ClassicPress once again. In so doing I lost access to Akismet and Jetpack. By losing Akismet I lose comment spam filtering. I also lost access to the Jetpack app so I…

  • Idle Lumber Empire – Thoughts

    Idle Lumber Empire – Thoughts

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesMany weeks ago I was encouraged to download Idle Lumber, but for weeks I didn’t bother to play the game. I don’t like new games, because I’m old, and I liked games where we bought the game, and then we could play for hours, with no instructions, unless we read the fabulous…

  • A Simple iPhone – iCloud solution

    A Simple iPhone – iCloud solution

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few years ago I bought a 256 gigabyte iphone because I wanted more space and for a long time it was great because it meant that I had plenty of room to grow into. The issue comes when you get to over 200 gigabytes of data stored in iCloud because you…

  • Vimeo for Iphone

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor watching videos while on the move. Vimeo for iPhone: We just birthed a new app from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo.

  • Feedly for iPhone

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    Reading Time: 2 minutes  Feedly is an application that takes google reader’s feeds and displays them in a more appealing manner. The browsing experience is more enjoyable as a result. The first item is displays on a splash page as ou see on the left. Flick to the right and you get a list of…