Category: Personal

Ride up the coast

Posted on by Sean Young

My maiden voyage on my new motorcycle was a great one.  We left San Francisco at about 10:30 am and headed north over the Golden Gate Bridge up 101N to Petaluma.  After a quick bathroom break we headed west to Point Reyes.  We then rode down to Bolinas and then back home.

Fire TV Stick and 5Ghz

Posted on by Sean Young

I recently received my Fire TV Stick and had trouble connecting to my 5Ghz network. After doing some digging I read try lowering your 5Ghz channel. I moved mine down to 36 and now I can see the network and am having exceptional speeds.   There is also a discussion on Amazon’s forum.

Jing vs. Snagit

Posted on by Sean Young

I recently needed to get a screenshot tool and saw the makers of Snagit had a free tool called Jing. After some research I found a comparison between the two. reference: http://www.techsmith.com/jing-snagit.html

1Password in Linux

Posted on by Sean Young

I’ve been using 1Password for my password needs and love it.  The one thing that is frustrating is they don’t have a client for Linux.  I was able to work around this by using their 1Password Anywhere feature. To do this I opened Chrome and logged into  www.dropbox.com.  Remember to check the Remember me checkbox. Once…