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Got the Cash App or Venmo? Interesting scam going on.

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 Paul E King 0 Comments

I’ve seen this a couple of times now in the past week in various forums I follow, it’s an in

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G Suite SMTP doesn’t work for one user

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 Paul E King 0 Comments

Quick rundown of what we had happen today, learn from my fail. Attempting to set up an HP scan to

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Safe and secure passwords don’t have to be forgettable or require an app

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 Paul E King 0 Comments

I will preface this with what I’m going to discuss here is relatively safe passwords that you can always remember

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How to force Google Home/Assistant to play the Frozen 2 soundtrack (which of course is fixed six hours after posting)

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Paul E King 3 Comments

You may have run into what my kids have (who asked me to solve it two hours after bedtime) –

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How to get your IPTV into Plex (or onto your Smart TV)

August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 Paul E King 0 Comments IPTV

Last week’s side hustle/task was getting an IPTV provider to work with Plex in the Live TV/ Channel Tuner section.

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Amcrest POE
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Find an IP cam on your network when the software won’t

May 27, 2019May 27, 2019 Paul E King 0 Comments

For a large number of reasons I’m in the office today working on Memorial Day, but one of these is

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How to use pop-up view (Litter your screen with app windows in Android Pie)

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019 Paul E King 0 Comments Android 9, Android Pie, pop-up view

If you’re wondering how to have more than two apps on the screen at the same time in Android 9.0 this is for you. If you’re not wondering how, this is not.

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Split screen
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Got Pie? Wondering where split screen multitasking went?

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019 Paul E King 0 Comments multi-window, split screen

If you recently got Android 9.0/Pie and are wondering where split screen / multi-window options went, well, it’s still there,

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W3 Total Cache
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Configuring W3 Total Cache for Pagespeed Insights (or what we did so you can laugh at us)

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 Paul E King 0 Comments WordPress

One of the big things I tackled when I took over Pocketables was dealing with a highly customized site aimed

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How to fix a sparking microwave? $5 fix.

March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 Paul E King 0 Comments

This is just how to save some money, probably fix your sparking microwave. Not a huge amount of interesting Android

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Accessories How To 

Something neat your smart plug might do (or have you tried turning it off and on again remotely?)

March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 Paul E King 4 Comments

I’ve recently gotten into a lot of power automation at work. This is something I actually don’t want to do

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