Are Siemens & Curry’s Reneging on their Guarantees?
I purchased a dishwasher last year for mine and my families new house – my first ever one. I did my research and found a model with good reviews, plenty of features and a 5 Year Guarantee ̵ ...
Author Archives: Bob McKay
Entanet Broadband Peak & Off-Peak Times
Our company uses Entanet for our FTTP (Fibre to the Premise) broadband and like most FTTP packages, there is a limit on usage except for during off-peak hours. Usage during off-peak hours does not cou ...
Setting Up Szsinocam IP Camera with Synology NAS (IPC-5033)
Update September 2016, I gave up on these cameras, instead buying a couple of and a couple of – I’ll write a review of them in a few months. After my recent purchase of a , I determined I ...
Speednames Domain Registrar – they charge for Everything
We recently completed a website project for a customer and needed to update the domain’s names servers to use CloudFlare – a fairly standard operation. My lead web developer came back to s ...
Network Solutions: Domain Name Transfer Delay Tactics
Once upon a time, Network Solutions were the de-facto company for .com domain name registrations and related services. These days IT engineers and web developers alike shudder at the thought of having ...
Dear Satya Claus: 8 Things I Hope Microsoft Fix in 2016
Since Satya Nadella took the helm of Microsoft in early 2014, he’s done exactly what’s needed on occasion to steer a big craft veering of course: realized that sometimes small nudges aren& ...
Editing an Activity in Garmin Connect
If you’re like me, everyone now and then you forget to hit ‘stop’ on your after a run or cycle and it continues recording, logging super-human feats such as my 25 mile run today in ...
Android Encryption Not Possible with PIN, Only Password
When I upgraded to a recently, the first thing I did was to attempt encrypt my phone to prevent anyone accessing my data should I lose it. Unfortunately I discovered – to my horror – that ...
McKay Family Tiramisu Recipe
My wife and I used to make this when we lived in the BVI, we soon started getting asked to make them when invited to dinner at friends houses. Its a simple version of a Tiramisu but when we sampled a ...
WordPress PHP Error: Call to a member function getConfigs() on a non-object (AddThis Plugin)
UPDATE: Wow – the AddThis team have been in touch via multiple channels to confirm they are working on a fix. You know the best thing? From what I’ve seen they’ve thanked everyone ...