Getting Tapo Smart Plug to work on Apple Home and Siri (non-Matter version)
One of the easiest way to upgrade your home devices to be smart is to get a bunch of Wifi smart plugs to be able to remotely control them. I’ve used TP-Link’s Kasa as...
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One of the easiest way to upgrade your home devices to be smart is to get a bunch of Wifi smart plugs to be able to remotely control them. I’ve used TP-Link’s Kasa as...
If you are using a corporate machine with ZScaler installed on it, you may face SSL handshake errors, especially with Java apps throwing up javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException errors when getting certificates proxied by ZScaler instead of...
Over time, the rubber of thumbtack controllers can disintegrate. This is especially true in tropical climates we have here in Singapore. That’s what happened to my years old Steelseries Nimbus Controller which still functions...
Accessories / Apple / MacOS / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published November 19, 2022 · Last modified December 2, 2022
Keychron is widely know for their affordable range of mechanical keyboards that works well with MacOS. When I decided to get a wireless TKL (ten key less) mechanical keyboard, I was deliberating between getting...
In a quest to find the most convenient work and travel charger for my devices, I recently bought the UGREEN 100W GaN charger. TL;DR, it’s almost the perfect charger. With 3 USB Type-C ports...
Intel NUCs are a great system to run your home media servers. I’ve ran my Gen 7 Intel NUC PC for years in headless mode without any issues. However, recently after upgrading the primary...
Accessories / Apple / iOS / iPad / iPhone / MacOS
by Ken Ng · Published September 24, 2022 · Last modified October 9, 2022
Already own the AirPods Pro and wondering if the 2nd generation just all hype? The initial reviews have all claimed better active noise cancelling (ANC) and richer sound quality. If you are an audiophile,...
If you use an Xbox One Wireless controller on CrossOver, you would notice that the latest version 22 have caused it not to work properly. This issue was happening on both Witcher 3 and...
Apple / Games / MacOS / Technology
by Ken Ng · Published August 27, 2022 · Last modified October 9, 2022
If you’ve come across my blog over the years, I’ve posted how I’ve played Windows-only games on my Mac through Parallels Desktop and CrossOver. With the release of Parallels Desktop 18, it’s time for...
On iOS, you can easily save a regular webpage to the home screen and let it load into fullscreen using the <meta name=”apple-mobile-web-app-capable” content=”yes”>. However, that alone is not enough as any links on...
If you ever find your Mac running out of precious space, it might actually be taken up by the local time machine snapshots. macOS is supposed to automatically purge it if you need the...
With an extra NVMe M.2 SSD lying around, it makes a lot of sense to get an NVMe SSD enclosure to use the SSD as an external disk. But one of the challenge is...
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Moving and running specific CrossOver bottle on external drive
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