This was a mystery to many myself included, but I say it is possible to connect to Wi-Fi using a QR code. It’s not well advertised by Apple. And most of the time Apples built in magical automatic Wi-Fi password sharing works as follows. That in short is where you try to connect to Wi-Fi and then someone near you also on an Apple device can click a prompt and share the password to you.

Introduction Picked up this at Walmart in the clearance section for about $15 which is a great one time deal, a charger of this caliber would be in the $40-$50 at normal retail rates. This was quite the deal, and is a really decent charger for home or travel use. Review This so far has been a fantastic charger works great for running my Laptop, phone and Tablet. And I was able to replace my laptop AC adapter brick and separate USB charging block all in one device and saved me 0.

After finding the #images share favorite on Apple Messages, I wondered if there was a way to make a GIF right on iPhone / iPad. There is here is what I found. Make a GIF using Shortcuts Open the Shortcuts application. Go to All Shortcuts Click + Search for ‘gif’ Select Make GIF Configure it to prompt for selecting a photo Press play button to run the new shortcut Select video to convert

I had an old Angular application to update. Here is what I ran into and how I resolved the issues. Just try and do this, any maybe why you should not use Angular :-0 can be a bit of maintenance nightmare if it gets too far out of date. Here is what I was attempting to upgrade from Angular 6 to Angular 7.2 Setup recreating the madness For starters, I had a project with angular core 6.

Defining a Native Pixel Display Coining my own terms since I can and should. So let’s do it, I am calling it “Native Pixel Display.” This is effectively any computer display that is usable without the use of any scaling or other forms of software magnification to have someone with normal or corrected vision be able to read the content on the screen. This is the historical standard This is how computer displays have generally worked since the beginning of computing.

Problem: I need faster usb ports on a vintage MacBook Pro that has Thunderbolt 1 what are my options? Introduction and Background For example, I have been using a MacBook Pro Late 2011. The slow USB 2 speed is one of my largest problem areas on this system especially when doing backups to external hard drives. I realized my machine has a Thunderbolt port, that I had been using primarily as a mini display port to just connect an external display.

If your getting a PKIX path error like AccessException: I/O error on GET request for https://avalid.domain/apiCall: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target; nested exception is javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target] with root cause sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target Here is what I did that fixed the issue.

I put this Coffee maker filter stand together back in the 2010 time frame as an alternative to using many throw away in-expensive coffee makers over a short recurring time frame. Not quite sure how I came up with this, but just kind of put it together, maybe from miss using chemistry lab stuff for cooking. For more information on how to assemble and build one of these yourself Lab Stand Coffee Maker - GitHub Drip mode While this worked for months, it had some downsides, random water flow when first starting, causing hot water to at first out and miss the filter basket for about a splash of water.

Experiments The single serving attempt Tried a brief experiment using my standard mug (12-14oz) filled with water and one scope or about 2 teaspoons of coffee in the instant pot (pressure cooker). A single serving just to see how well this does compare to how I usually make a single serving of coffee which is using the drip paper filtered Cowboy coffee Single serving (not recommended takes a long time for just one cup) Set up instant pot lid and using the stainless steel inset pan Dump one drinking mug full of coffee into a stainless steel inner cooking pot.

Fairly new to Windows as a full time os, had been running Macintosh hardware full time since 1996. I have done plenty of clean installations of windows onto new drives. This time I was upgrading from a 256GB SSD to a 2TB SSD. I wanted to figure out how to clone the drive and system exactly as I have it on the 256GB drive but expanded to fill the larger 2TB capacity SSD.