I own a few LIFX smart light bulbs. I’m a big fan of the LIFX Antibacterial smart light that I run on a cycle when I am not home, but I digress – you’re here to get a replacement LIFX HomeKit code. If you have lost the small piece of cardboard that has the LIFX […]
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Did you know Apple has a hidden privacy setting that may be sharing your Apple ID with other Apps? No? Surprised? I was, particularly given Apple has made a point of positioning itself as a protector of privacy. It’s called “Manage Apps That Can Look You Up” and is only accessible on the desktop version
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If you use macOS you may be looking for a shortcut to close all open apps. Effectively force quitting every open macOS app. While macOS offers a Windows equivalent of Task Manager that lets will let you kill applications one by one (the macOS equivalent, to this is ⌘ + Option ⌥ + Escape) it’s
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If you use Windows and macOS, you might want some things to operate similarly or look visually similar or familiar across both operating systems. These are the settings I always change on my macOS devices. If you’re after macOS apps I recommend and other tips, check this link. Mouse (Right Click) This is important if
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Sometimes you may want to embed a large media file in your WordPress site but the WordPress media uploader will fail. The failure could be for a number of reasons, the file is too big, your server has limits on WordPress uploads, or the server timed out during the upload process. To fix this, some
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Reminder, I don’t provide technical support or assistance for any of my blog posts. If you have been lucky enough to get a PS5 you may want to expand the storage. Sharing based on my personal experience, this is the best budget SSD and Heatsink combination for the PS5. The entire setup cost me $100
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Disclaimer: I do not provide technical support, accept liability or offer a warranty. If this doesn’t work, experience issues, or somehow break something, that’s on you not me. That all said, this is a non-technical fix and is easy to do. It should take you less than 5 minutes from start to finish. Background macOS
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I recently made the switch to macOS from Windows and one of the things I miss is smooth scrolling. Especially when scrolling through long web pages using a mouse. I’m not sure why Apple doesn’t offer this and the Logitech mouse I use with my Mac doesn’t offer it. Fortunately, you can enable smooth scrolling
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Should you buy a Dell Laptop? No. The answer is No. You should not buy a Dell Laptop. Dell has quality control issues and poor warranty support. There are better alternatives to Dell. I have owned a Dell gaming laptop plagued with overheating issues. A Dell laptop with non-replaceable parts. And a Dell laptop with
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I recently switch from Windows to Mac. I still have a laptop that runs Windows for gaming, but a Mac is now my daily driver. One of the things I miss about Windows is that when you start Notepad it is already open with a blank file. On the Mac (Monterey) TextEdit opens with a
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I recently made the switch to macOS from Windows and one of the things I miss is being able to hide the menu bar icons (Windows equivalent is the task tray). There are a few reasons why you may want to hide the menu bar icons on your Mac, other than the menu bar can
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