Have a freezer in the garage? How much would it cost you if it stopped working? Have a vacation house? Surely you want to monitor its temperature to avoid frozen pipes in the winter. Connect this inexpensive monitor to your WiFi and you’ll get e-mail alerts if thresholds are exceeded. […]
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Apple has consistently said that the AirTag is meant to track items, not people or pets. The biggest downside is your pet needs to be in range of a device in the Find My network so its location can be tracked. That means it’s not perfect, OK, I’m good with […]
I was an early adopter of Nest Protect Smoke and CO Alarms. I installed four of them in my house 7-years ago. Unfortunately, the carbon monoxide alarms expire since their sensors have a limited lifespan. 1st gen Nest Protect has to be replaced after 7 years. Google is a technology […]
I’ve always done multi-monitors in a horizontal set-up. I’ve never seen a good case for stacking them vertically until one of our customers recently showed us an application where it made sense. This customer has two work-flow dashboards which scroll massively left to right. Here we have two LG 29WK600-W […]
It’s no secret that the Verizon supplied router and wireless access point has limited capabilities. When I first got Verizon Fios at home, the router was free. Now they make you pay for it. Even if you put your own router at the head of your network, you still need […]
Are you booting your ESXi hosts from a single USB flash drive? What will you do if that USB stick dies? Most modern servers now have internal dual SD cards that provide redundancy by allowing you to configure them in a RAID 1 mirror. What if you have an older […]