PeriVision Loops Welcome to PeriVision Loops, currently home of Looping The Smiths, but hopefully that will expand to other artist as well in time. tl:dr for the last two years, just after Corona started up, I started playing guitar again, (mostly The Smiths) and then took up the hobby of ‘looping’ Looping is creating a song using… Read More
How to make Amazingly good Strawberry Chocolate crunch snack with Cereal. Yea, this is like boutique store good. Not all that hard to make either. I’ll take you through the steps by steps. Now full disclosure, this is from my wife who read it online somewhere. So if you find it, ping me so I can link back to the OP. Step 1, get the supplies.… Read More
How to fix minor rim scrape on a Tesla 3 and the 3-6-9 rule I finally got my Tesla Model 3 a few weeks back. Driving in an unfamiliar parking area, I did an over correction avoiding a pedestrian and ‘crunch’, I scrapped the rim on my M3. Sigh. So here is how you can repair the damage without taking the wheel off or paying $200 to a shop.… Read More
Gear VR is a must if you fly Gear VR, the only way to fly. I took two plane trips in the last 2 weeks and decided to see what level of utility the gear VR would be on a flight. Not only was it great, it totally changed the flight experience. In this post I’m going to list my favorite VR apps for… Read More
Cheat codes for Cities: Skyline ok, I need to cross check these cheat codes I got off the web, but I’m going to place them here and then check up on them keep or remove each cheat code as I verify them. BTW, there are not cheats as much as they are steam mods. In the main menu section click… Read More
Can you catch a Virus from an E-Cigarette? Perhaps you need a USB Condom A computer virus that is, and you can. Seems there is a reported case, on Reddit, of an e-cigarette delivering a payload of malware once plugged into the USB port. A cheap device from China it seems. No shocker there. So what should we learn from this especially given the post I did yesterday on… Read More
Use your freezers ice-maker to dependence candy. #lifehack 931 Here is a great life hack. If you do not need ice for your drinks, then put something else in there. Like candy! Of course you can put fruit or mochi or anything else that is small and taste good either frozen or just thawed. I can see berries or grapes as well. I wonder… Read More
How to put your iphone in developer mode to install Pebble apps There are two ways to write a pebble app, use c code and release to the Pebble store, or as I have done with NewsSnacker, write in JavaScript and release to the Pebble app store. They only problem is Apple has not released an update to allow iOS users to install apps written in JavaScript. … Read More
windows 8 does not see SSD when installing I took the 540 spin drive out of a new cheap laptop and decided to put an old SSD in. Yes it totally makes a differnce. However, when trying install off the USB drive, windows would not see the SSD I just installed. After a number of trying and lots of searching, I found the… Read More
How to fix a slow USB 3 port on the Yoga 13 ideapad or Thinkpad T430 This has been bothering me for a long time. I have both a USB3 external hard drive and thumb drive and since updating to windows 8.1, they have not been working correctly. The external hard drive does not work at all on the USB 3.0 port and the thumb drive is very slow. I have… Read More
Building a door opening robot because… robots! I originally wrote this for Monsoonco.com. This is a repost. We work out of a historic bank in downtown Oakland. It’s gorgeous. There are high ceilings with gorgeous artwork, and we have not one, but two bank vaults with huge metal doors that we use as conference rooms. Unfortunately, solving simple problems in a historic… Read More
How to update a cell based on date in excel and store that value A few weeks back I was asked to create a rule in Excel that would recalculate a cell’s value ONLY on Monday! And store that calculation. What? Hmm.. Then I thought, wait a minute, I should be able to do this in the cells directly. At first I tried to do this all in one… Read More
How to overclock your calculator Now, have you ever been adding a bunch of numbers and thought, man this feel kinda slow. Never mind its so fast you cant even think straight before the screen updates, that not the point. ANYTHING is better when its faster. Well, almost anything. So I post a set of pics from imgur, via Reddit… Read More
Multiply numbers by drawing lines When I first saw this in Reddit I thought it was pretty cool, why it was posted as a Japanese Visual multiplication method I don’t know since there was nothing in the comments saying it was Japanese. But anyway, the idea is pretty simple. To multiply two numbers between 11 and 99 you simply draw… Read More
How to make a monster pancake with a rice cooker Yes, you read that right. You can create a massive huge super monster pancake using your rice cooker. That is assuming you have one of course. If not, with a few modification you can use a bread maker as well. The cool part is you can add a number of ingredients like fruit, nuts, chocolate,… Read More
Filed under WTF; Comcast has turned 50,000 routers in to public hotspot WITHOUT permission This is so crazy, I really have to question if its true, but based on the story out of Seattle PI by Dwight Silverman, seems like this is really happening. Comcast is planning on turning 150,000 comcast routers in Houston into citywide wireless hotspots! And without prior consent! WTF?? According to Comcast, there is complete… Read More
How to toggle between 2 or more apps in Android using Tasker geared for Pebble users. I have a Samsung III. That means I cannot use a very simple but useful command that lets me load the last app used but not the current app. However, there is a way around this. In fact, you can do something even cooler if you are willing to put in the time. For this… Read More
How to make your Android phone faster, or at least feel faster Their has been a jailbreak hack that has been around for awhile that speeds up or removes animations on iOS devices that make your older phone feel a bit faster. Well turn out you can do this on Android as well without rooting or any other hacks. Its pretty simple. First find the ‘developer options’… Read More
3D printed Food and Candy is great. But where I really see this is for cakes! In fact, it has already started. We have already seen 3D almost everything, and recently 3D candy. But lately we been seeing 3D chocolate, cake decoration and even an experimental pizza for NASA. Not sure about that pizza though. What is interesting about the 3D printed candy is that Designer and architect Liz Von Hasseln,… Read More
5 ways to extend battery life on the Pebble smart watch After living with my Pebble for awhile, I have found a few tips that have proven to save battery life on my Pebble. For this post, I’ll break it down to 5 tips that should double your Pebbles battery life. 1) Turn the Pebble off when you are not using it. This may seem obvious… Read More