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It’s that time of the year! Thanksgiving is only 10 days away and that means that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are 11 and 14 days away as well. I shouldn’t have to tell you what they are, but if you need a refresher, here are links to Wikipedia articles that will fill you in…
As I write thus, I am at about 30,000 feet above the Pacific and about 90 minutes from landing at SFO. I just spent 15 wonderful days in Maui. Nothing too remarkable about that except for the fact that this was the first such trip that didn’t see me hauling along my complete portable office. …
So, I had this problem. My wife loves to watch movies on the TV. Recently we were fortunate enough to come into a big screen, flat panel TV that has taken her movie watching into a whole new dimension of entertainment. I am a member of NetFlix, but since my taste in movies tends to…
On June 27th I told you about a solution that I was using to solve the almost non existent AT&T coverage in my office. Here is the link to that article in case you missed it: https://realtytechbytes.com/solve-poor-att-reception/ It actually worked quite nicely, until you picked up the phone. Once you did that, and took the…
Last week I told you about how I solved my AT&T “no reception” problem at my office in San Ramon. (https://realtytechbytes.com/solve-poor-att-reception/) The solution works perfectly…if I want to use the speaker phone on my iPhone. If I pick up the phone to answer it I lose my reception! That’s because in order for the phone…
Ever since Apple announced the 4G iPhone earlier this month, I have been doing some research on which phone I might want to buy when my current contract runs out in early July. And, with the huge assortment of really capable phones available, it’s been an interesting process. To start with, I took a look…
Are you caught up in iPad fever? Is every one you know buying one and you are feeling left out? Well, bunky, you are not alone. I was feeling the same way, even though I had made up my mind to wait it out until the second version comes out. But the constant onslaught of…
As I write this post it is Easter, so Happy Easter to those of you, like me, that celebrate it. Since this is a day that I reserve for family, this will be a very short post. A few weeks ago (https://realtytechbytes.com/idxworth-itor-not/) I asked for your help by filling out a short survey…out of over…
I had a minor disaster at my casa last week in which I lost all access to a VMWare Fusion Windows XP machine. Fortunately it was quickly resolved by using a backup. That started me thinking about what I have that is NOT backed up. All of my computers use backup drives that are physically…
Ok, now that was a weird title for this post wasn’t it? I thought I’d combine the names of the two products I want to tell you about and make a title out of it. It either caused you to open the post right away because you were curious, or caused you to pass (in…
