Seriously trivial thoughts
If you are a long-time user of Apple products, their switch to the Lightening connector probably left you with orphaned 30-pin connector devices, like iPhone/iPad powered speaker docks. Well, this handy $15 adapter will turn those into useful Bluetooth speakers! (Even if you still live in the 30-pin world, this would be a great thing …
It’s been nearly three years since I penned my popular post Restaurant/Cafeteria-style Hot Oatmeal At Last! Ever since then I have had an eye out for a more controllable slow cooker. I thought I had found one: the Cuisinart PSC-350. This thing has a simmer setting which is a setting between warm and low, which is what you …
This is a fantastic 2-in-1 cable with Apple Lightning and micro-USB connectors. I’ve got two and just ordered a couple more. It’s great for my Mophie Juice Pack Plus iPhone 5 battery case. For iPhone 5 iPod iPad USB Data Charging Cable Lightning Connector Micro USB | eBay.
I’ve been dealing with this for years and finally found the solution and reason I could never get my Canon Pixma MG5320 printer to use the rear paper tray when printing labels with Word. I always ended up wasting paper and finally just putting the labels in the regular cassette, praying one wouldn’t come off …
In the past, I usually sell my devices when I upgrade. I’ve done this with phones, iPod touches, iPads, etc. Unfortunately, I inevitably regret that decision, feeling that I could have used the device I sold and really didn’t get that much money out of it (particularly after eBay and Paypal take their cut). So …
If you are wondering what’s eating all your RAM, check if you’ve got the Google Voice extension installed in Chrome. (Yes, that’s 1.2GBs and climbing!) I’m hoping this was the cause of my random BSODs. For now the solution is to disable the extension until it gets fixed. Just go to Tools > Extensions, find …
UPDATE 2/21/16: Easier way to share WiFi with multiple devices. I haven’t needed to share a WiFi connection for quite a while but the need came up recently and I decided to revisit my popular blog post “Sharing a wireless hotel Internet connection” from April 2010…Wow. How did anyone follow this convoluted post??? I’m so …
I used to love Flickr but got tired of their heavy-handedness and a while back decided to bring all of my photos under my own control using the NextGEN Gallery plug-in here on SeriouslyTrivial.com. However, Flickr is somewhat ubiquitous and supported by various things, including AppleTV and some iPad photoframe apps, and I didn’t want to give that …
So you dutifully back up your old iPad (or iPhone), connect your sparkling new iPad Air, and do a restore using iTunes. You fire up Spotify and all of your local files don’t play! WTF? They look ok, but you click and click and get nothing. The fix, albeit lame, is to delete the app …
