Tips on switching NBN ISP if you have a FTTP Gigabit plan
It is not as simple as just ordering a new plan. While the NBN supplied termination device (NTD) has four data ports, UNI-D 1-4, and theoretically can have four separate ISPs providing simultaneous...
View ArticleNoisy and nosey Netgear routers
If you run your own DNS server like pihole, you can see in the logs that Netgear routers wants to contact a couple of Netgear servers hundreds of times a day. Netgear has been silent on why they need...
View ArticleMigrating to a new MacBook Pro 16 inch M1
After the excitement of getting a new Macbook, the practical issues of moving all the applications, data and settings from an old Macbook is largely undocumented. Here’s what I did: The old...
View ArticleHow to calibrate MacBook Pro Liquid Retina XDR (MiniLED) Displays with i1Display
There’s no point getting one of the new MacBook Pro with the Liquid Retina XDR (MiniLED) Displays if it’s not calibrated accurately. The good news is that out of the box, these displays are very...
View ArticleEOS R3 Customizing AF settings – detailed settings
The EOS R3 has an autofocus system that’s different to the R5 and R6. It also allows you to customize buttons to activate autofocus features. The most common customization is commonly called...
View ArticleComparison of Nikon Z9 and Canon R3 Autofocus systems – part 1
December 2021 saw the release of pro-level mirrorless cameras from Nikon and Canon. Both have autofocus technology that feature subject detection, specifically face and eye detection. This is the most...
View ArticleAngelbird AV Pro SE cards for EOS R3 and R5
To shoot video at 6K RAW or 4K 100fps on the EOS R3 you’ll need a CFExpress card that can write 400 Mbytes per second at a sustained rate. There are a few cards out there than can do it, but the best...
View ArticleTroubleshooting FTP for Canon EOS R5 R6 R3 Nikon Z9 Z7 Z6
To troubleshoot ftp connections, here’s a set of parameters you should have. If you don’t have all of these, you’re unlikely to get it to work: 1 IP Address (or hostname) of your ftp server 2 IP...
View ArticleWPA3 breaks Wifi for older iPhones on Unify Dream Machine
If you’re having problems with older iPhone devices like the iPhone 6, 5, and 4 on Unify access points like the Dream Machine, make sure you turn off WPA3 options. My testing is enabling this will...
View ArticleHow to Return Faulty Amazon Products Outside Return Window
In Australia, Amazon’s return window is 1 month. But many products have a warranty period far exceeding 1 month from the manufacturer, and the Australian Consumer Law also requires businesses to...
View ArticleOutlook Windows desktop app keeps asking for password
In October 2022 Microsoft disabled some authentication protocols for their hosted Exchange Server email service. This means some clients like Outlook 2013 will not connect unless it uses Modern...
View ArticleRestaurant Hats and Business Success 2017-2022
The 2023 Good Food Guide for Melbourne is out. 57% of hatted restaurants in 2017 are now closed or have lost their hat status. Let’s have a look at the restaurants that were awarded hats 5 years ago...
View ArticleLinking FTP to Dropbox for live images from Canon R3 and Nikon Z9
Dropbox is a popular and favourite cloud service. Many photographers want to send photos directly from their camera to an editor or colleagues. Modern cameras like the Canon R3, R5, R6, 1DX and the...
View ArticleSuddenly no Internet access on iPhone 2023
Two friends had this problem recently and both turned out to be broken VPN apps. Neither could remember why they installed them in the first place. And neither even thought that those apps could have...
View ArticleCamera App drains iPhone 14 Pro Battery
Be careful putting your iPhone 14 Pro face-down. There seems to be a bug that sometimes activates that camera and it remains on. This causes the battery to completely run flat in 6 hours.
View ArticleDigitalOcean Droplets aren’t configured with swap
Public service announcement – if your droplets are crashing mysteriously, check to see if it’s running out of memory and if adding swap space will fix your problem. This is what was in the...
View ArticleAntinori Tenuta Tignanello ‘Solaia’ 1978
The first vintage of this benchmark wine. Unearthed a case of 6 of this in a Swiss garage in 2019. Three of the bottles were gone. But 3 were OK. 2 bottles in perfect condition. 3rd one showed a...
View ArticleChoosing a compatible NVME SSD for Apple Mac computers
Expanding the storage for your Mac with a DIY external drive with NVME SSD isn’t simple. To get maximum speed from modern Macs with Thunderbolt ports mean getting a Thunderbolt enclosure. These are...
View ArticleThe Apple Newton Story
In 1993, I started a company that was the first in the world to ship a 3rd party software product for the Apple Newton. It was available on a floppy disk, or you could order it over email and it would...
View ArticleFive Great Meals in Sydney
If you’ve got a week or so in Sydney, here’s a list of nine restaurants where you can have great meals and get a glimpse of the delicious dining you can get in the harbour city in 2023. But you’ll...
View ArticleFix delete zombie ghost items in iCloud tabs 2023
If you have several Apple devices and use the Safari browser, iCloud tabs is a convenient way to access web pages you’ve got open on another device. A common problem is that when you close a tab on...
View ArticleReview TP-Link Archer AX80 for Macs iPads and iPhones
TLDR; Not recommended for an Apple device environment. My Netgear RAX50 which I use as an access point is now two and half years old. I was evaluating alternatives and the Archer AX80 was available for...
View ArticleHow to upgrade the soldered SSD on your Macbook Mini and Studio
Apple has soldered the SSD storage onto the motherboard for years now. Here is detailed and succinct explanation of how you might upgrade the storage, and probably why you won’t want to do it yourself....
View ArticleURL to show Google reviews
Took a bit of Googling to find, but here’s the answer on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52021393/link-to-show-google-reviews The answer is to find the placeid and use this stub...
View ArticleTech Tip: Port forwarding WordPress on Raspberry Pi and DNS name resolution
I was following the excellent instructions on how to Build a LAMP Web Server with WordPress on my Pi running on my LAN. Everything worked fine with the internal LAN IP address. I wanted to have the...
View ArticleTips on using Migrate Guru to move a WordPress Multi-site with FTP
I wanted to move a WordPress Multisite from Digital Ocean to a Raspberry Pi running on my LAN. The total size of the sites was just over 1 GB. After checking Google, it seems the Migrate Guru plugin...
View ArticleHow to download 200GB of photos off iCloud
Apple doesn’t make this easy. When your iCloud storage is full and you want to download 200GB of photos to free up space, one of the options, and arguably the most reliable, is to request Apple to...
View ArticleAmex PDF statements missing fonts
Around November 2023, American Express Australia changed the format of the PDF statements by not embedding the font. This made rendering of the page virtually unreadable on macOS. Inspecting the PDF...
View ArticleFix for iOS and iPadOS apps bypassing AdGuard Home using DoH
When Apple allowed apps to specify their own encrypted DNS server, this was a convenient way for apps to avoid ad-blocking DNS servers. I got tired of the Gmail app on iOS and iPadOS bypassing my...
View ArticleLightroom Tip: Review and Select Photos in Library and NOT Develop mode
I’ve been using Lightroom from the very first version and I’ve now just realised I’ve been reviewing and selecting my images in the wrong mode. Like many, I thought that if I created Standard and 1:1...
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