Category: 1127: How’s Your Ticker?, Hue Finally Learns How to Deal with Power Outages, Recover Drive Space by Deleting Old iOS Backups

Grace and I have a few more days alone and then we have a bunch of visitors coming for the holidays and through the first part of the new year. Key West is making plans to improve its bike paths and bicycle access with the goal of making the city the most bicycle friendly in…

If you’ve been good about backing up your iOS devices to iTunes on your Mac or to iCloud, give yourself a gold star! Both backup destinations are fine, but there’s one potential downside to iTunes backups: they can consume a lot of space on your Mac’s drive. In iTunes, go to iTunes> Preferences > Devices,…

It took a really long time but Philips Hue lighting has finally fixed one of the most annoying issues with their smart home lighting. If you suffer a power outage, the default for Hue lights has been to return to the full ON stage when power is restored. That means, for example, at my house…

Apple announced that the series 4 Apple Watch would feature a new health feature which was the ability to generate an electrocardiogram (ECG) which is a medical test that detects heart problems by measuring the electrical activity generated by the heart as it contracts. This was finally released in the latest Watch OS update. Strangely,…

Dear Friends, This week I got called for jury duty here in Key West. I thought it was funny how so many of the prospective jurors knew each other or knew the defendant or the law enforcement officers. A small community of locals and a lot of tourists on this little island. It was a…