How to force Google Home/Assistant to play the Frozen 2 soundtrack (which of course is fixed six hours after posting)
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)
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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Find an IP cam on your network when the software won’t
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)
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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Got Pie? Wondering where split screen multitasking went?
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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Configuring W3 Total Cache for Pagespeed Insights (or what we did so you can laugh at us)
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.
This is just how to save some money, probably fix your sparking microwave. Not a huge amount of interesting Android
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Something neat your smart plug might do (or have you tried turning it off and on again remotely?)
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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How to group Smart lights in Google Assistant (kinda)
While I bet this will be solved soon enough, right now if you have multiple smart lights in a room
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Setting up a deadman’s switch (probably to kill your porn folder you perv,) using Assistant
A few days ago I saw something along the lines of “real friends delete your porn folder when you die.”
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Creating a child sleep light with a multicolored WiFi bulb and IFTTT
I’d written before about creating a child nightlight/sleep timer using Google Home. It worked, but we had the issue of
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