Category: General
Extending Google WiFi
Ever since moving to a larger home two years ago, I’ve been dealing with WiFi dead zones. The home is 2800 sf and it is a two-story home. The footprint is not very large though. You would have thought that a centrally located router/access point (router) would do the job. Not so. From day one...
Where can I get my own personal beach table?
Every time we pull this little Personal Beach Table out of the bag someone asks me where I got it. My wife got it at Ross, locally, but they have them on Amazon for only $16.94 and free shipping with Amazon Prime. It’s the perfect table to accompany the Tommy Bahama Beach Chairthat everyone is...
Straight Talk Wireless APN Settings for MMS
Around September 2013 I decided to ditch AT&T for my mobile phone service and move to Straight Talk Wireless. I love the service, especially the price. The service is $45 for unlimited talk, texts and data. I have not tested the limits of “unlimited”, but it works well. One caveat is MMS. Straight Talk has...
Amazon Raising Prime Service to $99/year
It was inevitable. I received the following email today from Amazon informing me that the price of their Amazon Primewill go up from $79 to $99 per year. Dear Russell Turley, We are writing to provide you advance notice that the price of your Prime membership will be increasing. The annual rate will be $99...
Great Gifts for the Geek in Your Life
People are always asking me if this tech gift or that geek gift is right for their significant other. The one rule that I try to follow is this, “most electronics are crap”. This is particularly true for many of the gifts that are marketed for “the geek in your life” around the holiday season....
Why I’m Passing on Apple Products in the Future
I was recently talking to my wife about not buying any more Apple devices. We have a few Apple computers in the house. Both of them are Mac Minis, one old G4 version, and an Intel Mini that I use as my main workstation for producing podcasts, writing, paying bills, etc. We also have a...
Learning to Code
Most of the new projects that I come up with usually need some sort of programming. Often open source software can be used, but it almost always has to be tweaked in some way or another. The skills to make those tweaks yourself can be invaluable. Today, over on Reddit, I saw a post of...
Mobile Podcast Web Apps
Quite a few years ago I created the mobile version of the Fat 2 Fit Radio site. I took the main functionality from the main WordPress site and translated it using some neat tools, iWebKit and Simple Pie. The main thing that I wanted listeners to do was listen to the podcast on their iPhones....
Kettlebell Challenges Updated
My site, Kettlebell Challenges, has been updated with improved functionality. Most of the changes are behind the scenes, but many are apparent to the users. Among the new features are these great new profile pages. The user has the option of making the profile public or keeping it private. From this profile page you can...