Seriously trivial thoughts
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 …
Bought a Groupon for kayaking the new Mission Reach Paddle Trail near Padre Park. It’s a pretty area just south of downtown and a lot of work has been put into the river here. Stacey Banta, who runs Texas Pack & Paddle (www.txpaddlesports.com), was the tour guide and she supplies everything for you, including the …
Got a Groupon today for a company called Homejoy. They are a new home cleaning service that happens to serve the San Antonio market among many others (Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, NYC, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Toronto, and Washington DC. Check their website for latest …
When the Federal Reserve pulls back from its $85-billion-a-month bond-buying program due to the improving economy, interest rates will rise from their artificially low levels. It’s not an option folks. The Fed has to pull-back or risk run-away inflation. And quite frankly, rates are going to eventually rise anyways no matter what the Fed does IMHO. So …
