Under Windows 7, whenever I connected my iPhone, I would see a device drive appear in the File Explorer, which allowed me to manually copy photos from the iPhone to my computer. Under Windows 10, the device drive no longer appeared. I found the solution to this problem at iPhone…
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I needed to re-image a Google Nexus 5 Android GSM smartphone with its stock factory image. Because I haven’t done this in a long while, I thought I would document what I did. The instructions below should also work for the Google Pixel phone. I did the re-image using my…
Leave a CommentMy brother-in-law gave me his huge 65 inch LCD TV. Score! But it was a dumb TV with no Internet capability or apps support. And I didn’t have cable or a digital OTA (Over the Air) tuner. Fortunately, there were many ways to turn a dumb TV into a smart…
Leave a CommentRecently, I received a couple of “Password Reset” request emails from my blog. I surmised that someone had tried to log into my WordPress administrative account, was unsuccessfully, and had resorted to using the “Lost your password?” link on the login page. Disconcertingly, the email indicated that my admin username…
Leave a CommentMy brother-in-law has a problem with his Windows 7 laptop. He continually sees the pop-up error message, “Windows Explorer has stopped working”, and the desktop would flicker (killing all file explorer windows) as Windows restarts the process. He cannot do anything productive with the malfunctioning machine. He asks me to…
Leave a CommentTo perform a clean installation of macOS Sierra (basically, Mac OS X 10.12), I recommend using a bootable USB flash drive containing the macOS Sierra installer. Below are the steps I took to create the bootable USB flash drive and how I used it to install macOS Sierra. Note: The…
Leave a CommentFinal Verdict: I do not recommend the Cleverloop system. At 1.5 years, the cameras started requiring reboots every few days. At 2.5 years, half the cameras die within 12 hours and the others within a day or two, requiring constant reboots. The base station still works fine, but I haven’t…
2 CommentsI had tried out Windows 10 by installing it on a second, bigger 500GB SSD (Solid State Drive) than my existing Windows 7’s 240GB SSD. Having determined that I wanted to permanently move to Windows 10, I decided to move Windows 10 to the smaller drive, overwriting Windows 7. First,…
2 CommentsAs a web developer, have you ever asked yourself whether to use a period or a plus sign to concatenate two strings? The former is used by PHP and the latter by Javascript. If you switch between the frontend Javascript and the backend PHP languages often, you’ll find yourself asking…
Leave a CommentUpdate: I’ve provided updated instructions using the latest Let’s Encrypt Certbot app at Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and WordPress From Scratch under section “Configure Secure HTTPS Access”. The latest Certbot will automatically modify the Nginx server block file and schedule the renewal task. See my previous post in the unmanaged VPS…
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