How to fix your “bad Internet”
Jul29

How to fix your “bad Internet”

Once people find out I work in tech I’m often asked about how come X Internet provider is so crappy or why it’s so expensive and most importantly, they complain; “their Internet is so bad!”.  The problem is that most people aren’t really complaining about their Internet service, they’re complaining about bad wireless service. So let’s back things up so we can all be on the same page in our...

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How to link your Amazon Prime Account to Twitch Prime
Mar21

How to link your Amazon Prime Account to Twitch Prime

If you have Amazon Prime, go to https://twitch.tv/prime and sign into your Twitch account (or create one) then click “Try Twitch Prime”, then click Canada and Continue then you’ll authenticate  link your Amazon account to your Twitch account.Once your Twitch Prime account is linked to your Amazon Prime account, you’ll get a link to redeem your “free” subscription and you can go to...

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Smart Watches
Nov10

Smart Watches

With the Apple watch looming, I’ve been looking at the Android watches and I think for myself the biggest interest is replacing my Garmin GPS watch with something smaller that I can use day to day for something other than simply running. The big thing is that I want my next watch to do everything my Garmin does as well as everything the smart watches are doing. Most of the watches available today do not have built-in GPS so if...

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iPhone’s gone NFC, no more waiting Google!
Sep09

iPhone’s gone NFC, no more waiting Google!

An infamous blogger, Toronto Mike, is now following my blog and told me I need to up my blogging game. It made me reflect on the fact that this site has been up since before there were blogs, much like his, and before the World Trade Center conspiracy happened. Incidentally, I also host Mike’s podcast, Toronto Mike’d on my upcoming site PodcastAccelerator.com. Regardless, I don’t have time to wax on here very often,...

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Pi Day
Apr23

Pi Day

It’s not March 14th but today is Pi day for me. Building a wallboard/sales scoreboard that runs in a stripped down X session on Raspberry Pis and today is the installation day. It shows all current sales data for the sales team, current status of their phone system including who is on the phone, how many calls have been made and how many callers are in each of the queues. It also shows productivity of the technician team, how...

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New Server
Mar28

New Server

Moving things around to a new server… Can you hear me now?

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