Internet of Things (IoT) The Internet of Things is a label that the computer industry, the media, and manufacturers have created to describe small devices that live on a network and provide a specific feature. The Internet of things (stylised Internet of Things or IoT) is the internetworking of physical
There are many ways to customize your macOS environment to suit your personal tastes. However, not every preference you want to change can be modified using System Preferences or Application Preferences. Often, settings are deemed too obscure for everyday users and relegated to complex keystrokes or hidden system settings. This
How to integrate the IOTTY smart home switches into Home Assistant, leveraging Alexa Routines
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I recently upgraded to macOS Monterey on my MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, I immediately had an issue in Mail.app where I was seeing "Your network preferences prevent content from loading privately."
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How to fix a raspberry pi printing a British pound symbol
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I'm starting this years "What I've Read" post with a few disclaimers, just to make my style for these posts crystal clear. First, the links below are Amazon affiliate links, there's
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Recently my family and I went on vacation and stayed in a condo that had "Complimentary WiFi". We had packed our AppleTV because my son knows how to access all of his purchased movies (way too many) and it has my wife and I's current programming for the evenings.
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Today is Juneteenth. It has several "also known as" names, including "Freedom Day", "Jubilee Day", and "Liberation Day". It is a commemoration of Union army general, Gordon Granger, announcing federal orders in the
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This weekend, Disney released a new movie for download. That by itself isn't remarkable. What's remarkable is that this is a move that was just released to the theaters two weeks prior. That
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I'm not sure where to start this post. 2019 has been difficult for everyone in the United States, I want to say 2020 will be better...so I will! 2020 is going to
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How to recover a lost Admin account on macOS when you have FileVault 2 enabled
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What a year. My family moved from Cupertino to San Jose, where we purchased a new home (don't even get me started on housing prices). I started in a new role at ServiceNow
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My family and I just returned from a week in paradise, in Ko'Olina, Oh'au, Hawaii. Why Oa'hu? Because in Ko'Olina there is a relatively new resort, Aulani, that was built by Disney and
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This afternoon I was doing some network maintenance around the house. While inspecting all of my wireless clients, I happened to find a host that I didn't recognize (I name all of my
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As most people who know me and lots of my readers know, my son has Down syndrome. Down syndrome "also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of
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Recently I was invited to participate in the World of WarCraft, Battle for Azeroth Alpha Test. I know you're thrilled (I was too!). However, in order to install the game, it required 40GB
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