I for one think the days of TV are numbered, why? well let me tell you about tonight. I for once had a chance to site back and relax. I pull out my tablet computer (And android device, but for the sake of this story it could have been any of them Android, Black Bary[…]
I found today a way to breath some new life into an “older” andoid phone. I have recently had some slow downs on my phone and it having some trouble getting a GPS signal. Today I cleared the dalvik-cache and I have noticed a slightly faster system and less GPS trouble. I am sure there[…]
For Issues Etc Fans I am finally ready to let a beta version of the Issues Etc Android App out. If you have any bug reports and/or suggestions please email them to mpop@mikeoconnor.net and in the subject line please precede it with “Issues Etc App:”. To install it follow the following instructions: From the Home[…]
With the rumors going around that Apple might one day discontinue the “iPod classic” and the fact that as a single use device its price is rising compared to multi-use devices, and finally the fact that I still have the same iPod that I got in 2003 (and we all know hardware does not last[…]
I been thinking a bit about social media, this includes Blogs, MicroBlogs (twitter) and social networks (facebook). They can be great tools, but also great ways to embarrass your self fast. I have a blog and an account with both facebook and twitter. I like my blog and facebook, I do use them differently. I[…]
I thought instead of just posting these to my Facebook page, I would post them here for the world to see I got a new synthesizer on Friday, I played with it all weekend and this is the stuff I came up with over the weekend. Mind you I was messing around and very rusty[…]
Well tonight I got to really put my new phone though some usage. Went to meet some people (a friend of mines friends) in DC well when I finally get a parking space I set it GPS location in a program on the android phone called parkdoid. Then grabbing the exact address off of the[…]
I am always behind on my Podcasts. I have a 2.8 day queue left (if I was to listen straight) the PodCasts I listen to are Issues Etc (www.issuesetc.org) Fighting for the Faith (http://www.fightingforthefaith.com/) Irish and Celtic Music ( http://celticmusicpodcast.com/) Pub Song Podcast (http://pubsong.com/) Armature Radio Newsline (http://n5pre.podomatic.com/) Bill O’Reilly Rush Limbaugh and I am[…]
I just got a new cell phone(on Friday), it is an android cell phone (a Motorola cliq). I have played with it a bit (not as much today as I feel a bit sick). The reason I picked a android is because it is java basid and as I do java programming now it is[…]
Today I was a bit busy. After church I did not get home till late since they were doing construction on 66 (I have to go up to Alexandria for church as there are, to my knowledge any good confessional/liturgical churches in SoMD) So I decided on the way home to stop for some food[…]
Finally I am off of comcast. When I called in to cancel the comcast account talk about hostal, the person tried to tell me I did not know anything about computers and my setup was all wrong and I was causing my own problem. At that point I got angry and told him 1) I[…]
6 more days and my Verizon DSL will be up and I will be able to cancel comcast. I hope they get it up faster then by the 20th, I got the modem today, I just have to hold till they turn things on.
As I type this post I am on hold with verizon, I am going to dump comcast and get DSL. Why am I dumping comcast, well I am tired of horrible connectivity to no connectivity. it is every day from 6pm to 8pm. I finally had it today when I called in for the second[…]
For the last 2 weeks I have had the most unstable internet connection, if it was not for the fact that comcrap had a monopoly here I would drop them so fast, but there is on other option, no fios, no other real high speed options, if fios ever comes to Indian Head MD I[…]
I am so pissed at comcast right now. I get told we will have a tech out there tomorrow, be home from 1 to 5pm. So I have to take time off work, well I am there from 1 to 5 no one comes, I call in and get “oh you did not have to[…]
I got my General license in October, and a FT-710 back in December. I have been struggling on getting the setting right on the radio to so I could get a contact on HF. I have it hooked up to a LDG Z-100A tuner, and the Antanna is a Diamond HFV-5 pentaband antanna. But the[…]
As noted before when I first got my 3D printer I thought it would be used for some fun things but not as much use as I am using it for, it seems about 3 to 4 times a week I find another thing I can print with it to make things nicer in my[…]
Recently amazon decided to force an update on the Echo Auto, to the stupid Alexa+ I did not want it, months ago when they first tried it you could exit it. But last month they decided that they were going to force it and not let you exit or disable it. I refuse to use[…]
WEll today I found how bad the internet has made things. First I was tring to buy something at microcenter, tried to use samsung wallet. Well again it wanted me to open unlock the phone so it chould show me some random ad. I did that quickly and quickly closed the phone and tried again,[…]
Years ago I use to have a radio shack police scanner, but since most places have gone to digital/trunced system, it no longer worked. So today while I was at Ham Radio Outlet, I deceded to get one that they had as a open box deal. It is a Uniden BCD436HP. It is a nice[…]
(Originally posted this over on my ham radio only site https://kb3hcg.radio) Well I found a good reason to have both 2m and 70cm calling freqs progreammed into ones mobile radio when traveling. I always knew the value of 2m National calling Freq, I found out that having the 70cm National calling freq also is also[…]
At around 8:30pm a fire broke out in the apartment below the one I live in. Good news is the damage appently is only in that apartment, the rest of the apartments have been deamed livable, so at 10:30pm we were able to return to our homes. My poor cat was scared by all the[…]
I been getting so many scam calls lately it was once a week, then 2 times a week then once a day, today I got 5. I am so tired of it I just want to block all phone calls. I have found that if I put my phone in do not disturb, I can[…]
For a bit over 10 years I have wanted to get a 3D printer. Last Sunday I was down at Microcenter and the bambu A1 combo was on sale. So I picked it up with some Filament. I thought it would be fun to maybe try to make some stuff. But what I did not[…]
I saw an video recently on youtube where someone was complaining that hobbies have been ruined in recent years, he made his argument. I personally reject his argument. His argument is that influincers on either on Youtube or tiktoc have made it where people feel they have to spend a lot of money to get[…]
