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HomePod mini software update will activate hidden sensor and Sound Recognition feature
The existence of the sensor was noticed two years ago. Next week’s update should include: Apple has updated its website for the HomePod mini to advertise the temperature and humidity sensor for the…
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Mastodon Starter Guide
Mastodon is free, but you must join a server or Instance (This is Unix speak for a special kind of server for a server). Some servers are invitation only, some have a waiting…
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Alternatives to Twitter
I joined Twitter in May of 2008. Now I’m seeking alternatives to Twitter. For the first few years Twitter was fabulous, even though it was frequently knocked offline. There were a lot of…
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The Rocketbook
The Rocketbook does exactly what it says it does; it provides a reusable, eraseable writing surface. It just doesn’t do it very well, or in a way that makes me want to use…
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Apple’s HomePod Mini has a Temperature and Humidity Sensor
According to this post from the iDownload blog Apple’s HomePod Mini has a Temperature and Humidity Sensor. Made by Texas Instruments and measuring 1.5 x 1.5 millimeters, the secret sensor is embedded in…
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Pencil Sharpeners
In 1971 my parents bought a house whose previous owners had left a hand-crank pencil sharpener attached to a stud near the head of the stairs to the basement. The sharpener had a…
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Red and Blue Bicolor Editing or Checking Pencils
Bicolor pencils with a red core on one end and a blue core on the opposite end are often called “checking pencils,” or “editing pencils” because they are often used for copyediting and…
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Favorite Pencils
I am in the final stages of a general re-organization and purge that I started in the fall. That re-organization meant not only swapping around furniture to make a work area, given the…
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BaronFig Dateless Pocket Planner
When 2020 began I was using an A5 hardcover notebook as a bullet jourrnal, tracking appointments, tasks, reading, birthdays, due dates for publishers—a lot. In late summer, I realized it was just going…
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I Love My Kindle Paperwhite
One of the things that has been especially useful during the year of COVID-19 isolation has been my Kindle PaperWhite ereader. I was an early convert to ebooks, and not just because I…