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Post-purge setup
After my major purge of computer and ham radio gear… I added a few things. Granted these were things I didn’t need. I think I’m cursed with first wanting things I don’t need. Then later wanting to get rid of things I don’t need. At any rate. I added the following: Even after adding that… — read more
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Major purge…
I’ve been doing some serious house cleaning lately. This was partially in preparation to live in an RV in the not too distant future. First, I got rid of all my computers and traded in my 11-inch iPad Pro on a new 13-inch iPad Pro. This new 13-inch iPad Pro will be my main computing… — read more
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New blogging setup
I used to have a “personal website” back in the day. And I played with that quite a lot. But that whole concept seemed to go away at some point. I probably milked it for awhile too long, but I eventually chose to setup a blog to replace my personal web site. The free Google… — read more
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Audio nirvana
I like to play with audio gear. And I’ve been searching for a good setup in the office in our home where I sit in front of my computer most of the time. It’s basically the smallest room in the house. A small bedroom that I use as my man cave. My last good audio… — read more
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Value vs Value-to-me
I’ve been known to ramble on about tech device overload. That’s what I call it when I have too many gadgets that get too little use. I was avoiding selling them because of the loss that I would incur (new vs used price). I had a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, and a smart… — read more
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Cloud services
This last week was a real exercise in futility. Before this, I had been firmly planted in the Apple camp. Using iCloud for email and all my files. Using Numbers and Pages for my spreadsheets and documents. This worked pretty well. Enter the thought, that Numbers is maybe sort of lame. Google Sheets is much… — read more
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Speaker wars
Of course there is no war at all, except that which has been in my head over which speakers to use in our office. I have switched between having a HomePod in the office to having my Harman Kardons in there… and back and forth a number of times. Most recently, we have one HomePod… — read more
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More HomePod fun…
Get ready to laugh. This will undoubtedly cause you to chuckle. So… bought the HomePod right? Had it for a few days. Liked it. Not sure it was better-sounding than my Harman Kardon speakers but figured I’d keep it anyway. A couple nights later, had a few beers, and did a bunch of comparison testing… — read more
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HomePod impressions
The picture above shows my Apple HomePod that arrived yesterday. It is intended to replace the Harman Kardon SoundSticks shown below. The HomePod has no wired connections (except for power). It’s designed to respond to voice commands (via Siri). One can also stream to it from any Airplay-capable device. The HomePod has very nice sound.… — read more
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I should be a tech reviewer
I’ve been on the fence regarding the new Apple HomePod. For those who don’t know, it’s Apple’s new Siri-powered digital assistant speaker. It went on sale last Friday for pre-order. And will be delivered beginning Feb 9th. One of the things I’ve started doing is watching a fair amount of tech reviewers on YouTube. It’s… — read more