MacOS Bluetooth

Junk Portable Jump Starter

A <1 year old $80 lipo car jump starter pack crapped out on me. It worked great for a while, but then stopped accepting a charge. I ripped it apart and found that the individual cells in the lipo pack were wildly out of balance. I hooked each cell up individually to a power supply […]

Return to Evernote

After giving it a try for about a year, I’ve officially reverted from Microsoft OneNote back to Evernote. Reasons: (1) OneNote was/is painfully slow opening up notebooks, (2) it doesn’t allow any sort of subfolder organization of notebooks, and (3) the app on macOS is essentially crippleware (worse than the online version). If you don’t […]

Tear down

Have you ever wondered what’s inside that little white Ez-Pass box attached to your windshield… well no longer thanks to a handy Dremel tool. It’s a circuit board with one chip, a few passives, a build in antenna, and a big fat purple lithium battery. We found out on the PA Turnpike during the Thanksgiving […]