In order to understand what VPN is, you need to first know what an IP address is? The World Wide Web (WWW) was created in the late 1980s early 1990s. It revolutionize how people and machine communicates. The WWW also rely on one important thing, an IP address. It...
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Ad ID on your phone? What is it?
I’m sure some of you have already come to realize, your cell phone’s setting is getting to be very complicated. If you need to go to setting and try to do anything, you probably need a college degree or higher to try to figure it out. Privacy has been...
Need dark mode for your website?
Screen time! There seems to be no way to avoid it nowadays. We are looking at our computer screen or mobile devices all the time, in addition to the big television. Not sure why, probably due to the initial low resolution and size of screens, the industry started with...
Stuck in maintenance mode in WordPress?
WordPress is wonderful and updating the software is usually a breeze. You will get notification on your admin dashboard indicating updates available for plugins, themes, … and WordPress itself. Click a few button and you can initiate the updates. But here is the problem, the update process runs from...
Need to synchronize files? Try FreeFileSync
Do you have files where you use and update in multiple locations, and it is a nightmare to try to make sure that they are in sync? I found a very effective software which is free and open-source, FreeFileSync that does an excellent job for me. What does it...
Want to auto test your website? Try Nibbler
As I’m trying to expand my website with more contents, I’m planning a reorganization and redesign in stages. One of the thing that troubles me is how do I make incremental changes while making sure that my website is still intact, and my user’s experience while visiting my site...
Google Home Mini on Wheels (Battery)
The popular smart voice automation devices like Amazon Echos and Google Home devices are very common in our households now. They are certainly useful and once you have them, you kind of can’t live without them The one major complain I have for them is: they are not very...
Let’s make our old garage door smarter!
As part of our home automation project, we would like to get a smart garage door opener, one that can give us remote access and also alerts when we are away from home. Have you ever have that question in your mind after you left your home and while...
Let’s automate with Alexa Routines
Smart voice assistance devices are wonderful, and definitely add values around our household. One of the advance feature available is to create a voice command that will do multiple things for you. I’ve already did a quick write-up on Routines in Google Assistant, so now, I’m going to do...
OK Google, let’s be brief!
I’ve been using both Google Assistant and Amazon Echo devices at home, they are very handy devices that will listen to your voice commands and execute them, specially when your hands are tight up like cooking, holding a baby, or taking a shower. I will write a few reviews...