Category: New Gizmos
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Toshiba Aurex System 15: Two Ways to Tango in the Present
I just have to have it — the venerable Toshiba Aurex System 15. I deferred buying the sleek, 4-piece micro hi-fi system almost 40 years ago in favor of the less expensive System 10 because of budget constraints when I was still a young ex-pat worker in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Minus the cassette…
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A ‘Puzzle’ Solved – Rapidweaver, Carbon Copy Cloner, and Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates
It was New Year’s Eve, and I was performing routine maintenance on my cylindrical 12-core Mac Pro (Late 2013) and checking the performance of all my web server applications when something unusual happened—my Rapidweaver software crashed. When I updated a few pages for 2021, Rapidweaver (the software that creates the pages of my main website)…
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A Deal Better Than Black Friday – $17 Linksys Router
Once in a rare while, while shopping, you will find an item that is priced so ridiculously low that you’ll have to convince yourself that a). there’s an obvious pricing mistake made by an employee, b). a mischievous person switched price tags, c). there must be something wrong with the item, or, d). you must…
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Second Impressions: The Tesla Model 3
Last week, Don, my brother-in-law, picked up his metallic deep-blue Tesla Model 3 from one of the company’s showrooms –they sell their cars direct and not through a dealership– in Fremont, California. A year ago, he had put up a US$ 1,000 deposit for the promised US$ 35,000 Model 3 unit that had just gotten…
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Fun Little Drone: Ryze Tello Adventures
Old habits die hard, and R/C flying is one of them. Since I caught the aerial remote-control bug during my almost 4-year stint in Saudi Arabia in the early 80s, I had never forgotten this sometimes-expensive hobby. They say that the hearts of adventurous people lie in the extreme desire to fly like birds. R/C…