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Author: Evan Kline (page 33 of 164)

Hello, I'm Evan. I write about tech from my perspective – that of the average tech geek, sometimes with my lawyer glasses on. You can also find me on Twitter and at my real-life job as a lawyer.    MORE ABOUT ME.

TFW your excitement for pre-Easter baseball is crushed because there’s no Phillies game to watch during the family gathering on Easter Sunday


It’s almost as if Apple had a crystal ball when they created the onboarding screens for iOS updates


I see an increase in productivity when I change my setting/surroundings occasionally. So I just bought a reclining chair for the corner of my office, so I can move five feet to another position as desired.  ¯_(ツ)_/¯


Search DEVONthink Databases using HoudahSpot →

 From the Houdah Blog:

Now that you have all your documents stored and organized in DEVONthink, you can rely on both DEVONthink and HoudahSpot to always find the piece of information you need.

I don’t use HoudahSpot often, but when I do it does a fantastic job of finding exactly what I need. HoudahSpot is a tool that performs searches on your Mac using almost any parameter available. When your search is done, you can sort the results multiple ways.

The blog post explains how to set up DEVONthink so it works with HoudahSpot, and also includes a DEVONthink search template.

(From the Houdah Blog, via Devonian Times)


What Should You Do with All Your Smarthome Gear When You Move? →

Craig Lloyd writing for How-To Geek:

Smarthome devices are expensive, and if you’ve decked out your entire house with all sorts of fun smarthome toys, that’s thousands of dollars of extra value added onto your house, which can make for a great negotiating tool when it comes time to sell.

I’m not planning to move, but have still thought about this whenever I install a new piece of gear in the house, such as my ecobee thermostats. I’ve always assumed that if it’s in the house when your house is being shown, that’s a fixture and your buyers are going to assume it’s part of the price unless you spell it out otherwise. I don’t practice real estate law, though. Regardless of the law, you BETTER spell this out pretty explicitly if for no other reason than you’re going to have ticked off buyers if they saw a house with fancy smart home gadgets that aren’t there come final walkthrough.