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How to Correct Tab Snooze Extension Display
The current version of the Chrome Tab Snooze Extension (version 2.0.17 at this writing) was released in June of 2019, and even though it is over two years old, appears to have worked in all of that time. However, a recent update to Google Chrome – perhaps to Chromium, as it appears to also affect…
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How to Recover Default Groups in Google Contacts
The official stance on the three default groups in Google Contacts (Family, Friends and Coworkers) is that they cannot be renamed nor can they be removed. Now I am not going to argue this point, mostly because, unlike Google Alphabet, I am not worth some half a trillion…
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Philosophizing About Contests
Yesterday, we spent most of the day at the Red, White and Brew festival, put on by Harley-Davidson of Charlotte (which, incidentally, is located in Matthews). This latter fact is neither here nor there. As with many festivals we have attended of late, it was a little sparse…
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Keep TiVo Premiere Recording Suggestions
Not long ago, I wrote about how I had to reset our TiVo Premiere to get suggestions working again. It worked great – suggestions came back, for the first time in months. Essentially the first time since we had had the unit. The problem is that they soon…
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Tuning Adapter Stops TiVo Premiere Suggestions
Back in late October, we decided to finally take the plunge with a TiVo Premiere. While we have had a TiVo for a while – and in fact have had two for some time now – the writing is now on the wall that we'll need to upgrade…
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Root Your Nook HD and Remove Bloatware
Not too long ago, the Barnes and Noble Nook HD created quite a stir when the company announced that it would get the Play Store installed natively – this means that instead of trying to go up against Amazon and the Fire by creating its own ecosystem, the…
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How about an electronic license plate?
It seems that the state of South Carolina – rarely at the forefront of anything – may be proposing something fairly interesting: An electronic license plate. There is no telling if these plates would ever see the light of day. For one, they are potentially expensive – the…
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Prism Needed to be Transparent
With all the hubbub from the announcement that the government can snoop on pretty much anything they like – first Verizon calls, then later almost anything on the internet via a program named Prism (save Twitter, because that's so important), it leaves me wondering why there is such…
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Cut Down Government Services Already
It seems like just about each time I drive down some street or another, I end up stuck behind a row of buses. Yes, a row of buses. Okay, two may not actually qualify as "a row", but just how many do you need? One would surely do…
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Cannot Link to Secure Site in Movable Type
I recently had a client where everything was working fine – but they were unable to link to any secure (https) sites when creating entries in Movable Type. Unfortunately, there were no messages to be found, and everything worked just fine – as long as there were no…
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Reclaiming Your Unclaimed Property
The other day, I was reading an article – which unfortunately I cannot find right now. I am sure it was online, as I rarely read anything offline any longer. This article pointed to the NC Unclaimed Property site, where you can search for unclaimed property belonging to…
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Why do planes have windows?
That isn't to say that I think you should be stuck in a long with undecorated walls, because that might be a little creepy, and perhaps claustrophobic. I've been in an inside cabin in a cruise ship, and I get the concept of the window. It's very comforting…