HassKit – Home Assistant Mobile UI for IOS and Google Android
Recently, Dust Hoof released his version of a Home Assistant mobile app. Called HassKit, it is available for both the Apple IOS and Google Android platforms. The Application for…
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Project Connected Home over IP
The Connected Smart Home is here to stay. Today, 3 of the biggest companies on earth decided to form a partnership called Project Connected Home over IP to…
Alexa Beat Cortana … or is about to.
If you haven’t heard, Microsoft is stopping development, support, and roll out of Cortana in several regional markets around the world. Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Mexico, China, Spain,…
How to optimize WordPress images for SPEED using WEBP
Today, I am compressing all of the images on this website. Hopefully after compressing, you will see that the pages are loading a bit faster. I had on…
RIP: Microsoft HealthVault – Migrating the data out
The first big PHR related service to shut down was in 2011. Google Health. PHR or Personal Health Record is the idea that you should not have your…
Google Nest saves ‘Works with Nest’ program – sort of.
Wow! That was a fast response from a really large company! The cries from below have reached the high towers of Google in regards to the Nest API…
Check bad Passwords with Google Password Checkup
This post is for my friends and family that might not be so technical but still want to stay safe online. I wrote about the importance of changing…
How to opt out of Citrix Director’s use of Google Analytics.
Sam Jacobs sent this little tip over to me recently. It seems that not only does Citrix Director monitor user sessions, but also keeps some tabs on the…
Waze is the reason I dislike CarPlay now.
I used to HATE CarPlay. I mean, I hated the navigation experience in my Chevy Bolt enough that I was considering switching over to an Android phone. (Google…