Today’s Show follows the show of a week ago about automobile economy
Sorry, I lost the Email from a listener talking about ‘costing’ her Hybrid for max Fuel Efficiency

Open Windows Create Drag.
A/C can add 10-20% for fuel consumption.
Get Tire Pressures Right.
Take off unneeded roof racks.
“Drag is the square of speed” which is where the compromise “55 MPH” came from
Type of Fuel in California makes NO difference (Unless you can find it without ethanol- not going to happen and NOT cheap) efficiency: Public Transport, car pooling.
‘Fuel Additives Boost Mileage’ are ALWAYS bogus.
But Perception Trumps Reality, Right?
Stop n Go Traffic Hell on MPG- IE driving around on the 4th of July : )
Us Old Timers used to use a vacuum gauge on the inlet manifold to demonstrate engine load…

UK price of gas currently $9 a gallon BTW.
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Rechargeable Batteries for domestic items
NOT ALL are Created Equal.
Turns out the ENELOOP brand formerly owned by Sanyo, bought out by Panasonic,
are far and away the best kind despite costing up to 50% More.
‘High Internal Resistance’ means they have a long shelf-life without discharging themselves, plus a relatively high capacity and ‘ampacity’.  Great Article on Wikipedia
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This brings me to Fake Products on Amazon:
How do you know what you are buying are real ENELOOP batteries and not sub par knock offs? User Comments. Any vendor that has NOT been around for at least 6 months with dozens of comments should be AVOIDED

Further Gripe– I went to buy “Terramycin Antibiotic Ointment” as the prescribed  medication for my cat’s conjunctivitis- this is a common eye inflammation also known as ‘pink eye’ that creates an itchy inflamed periphery between the creature’s eyelid and cornea.

If you look up those 3 words above, all sorts of pet eye products show up that are NOT antibiotic but have used the keywords, and often the word ‘natural’ comes up.

All well and good but a diagnosed condition like this if not properly treated can lead to blindness and at the very least, terrible discomfort.and the opportunity to affect other mammals– and Yes, You.

In one case I found a graphic of a tube of this material where “Terramycin” (A brand name for oxytetracycline) was pixelatated to the point of illegibility —
I can only Guess this is to prevent fraud detection scans by the brand owner from picking it up….
It has ZERO reviews, by the way,.
So these fraudulent vendors jump ship when the bad reviews along the lines of ‘it is not what I asked for and not what it says it is and does not work’ flood in,
(My favorite said: “Label is full of typos”

.. the vendor Ups Stakes and creates a NEW store.
Shame on you Amazon!

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Wordpress ver 6 Out. Compatibility?

Good Morning! Today’s Show:

Apple Repair Program- Not as Cool as it at first seems!
As for Self Service Repair.. HmmM!
Harks back to earlier thinking by ‘the other Steve than Jobs’- Wozniak- about ‘Opnness’

Elon Musk Buys & privatizes Twitter–
& what exactly are Freedom of Speech and facts?

Some Things about my Dental Work in Mexico

Show of last week Mar 24 was handled as Garden Forum
with Robyn Martin as neither of us Glen nor Paule could get it together in time!
THANKS Robyn!

On the Road in beutiful Merida Yucatán

And busy with a tiny mobile studio:
iPhone 10 XS and a MacBook Pro M1 both with latest operating systems
This is a dynamite travel Combo as both are tightly secured with Face-ID
and Touch-ID that is near impossible for strangers to bypass.
(I also carried an Apple AirTag whenver I left a day pack in my stay..)
As promised, the MacBook M1 lasts 10h or more on battery and weighs 2 pounds with a 13 inch screen– Perfect. It’s also super fast at digital storage and processing and SEEMS quite robust. So Far.

Plus- the Audio file produced on the iPhone using the native Voice Memo App
even labels the audio files with the name of the location gotten by GPS!

One can ‘airdrop’ files such as my Voice Memos off the iPhone
onto my MacBook M1 to import into Audacity Audio Editor
I also recorded straight into the Laptop

Glenn did the exact same and Emailed me couple voice memos which I included and chopped up

Zen Tech 54 minute edit

Here is a link to a 13 min composite Video I made after recording the Radio Show….
Walking round again, this time filming : )
Click Here– YouTube Video

Posts from 2006 Recovered! Here NOW!

hacked? Google: “Hacked By SA3D HaCk3D”

Wherever is DDHART our Former Blogger?
Vanished Suddenly, Mac 2019: https://twitter.com/ddhart
Please anyone know what happened to him? : (

LOTS of Cool Online Tools! Also, a great domain name.
https://tinywow.com

Woes with apple’s “AirTags” misused for tracking people

Windows 10/11 Please, Act Like Windows 7 Start Menu- OPENSHELL 
(download the .EXE file from there– GitHub Project)

WordPress- Version 5.9 Issues and UpDraftPlus Security Issues

Car Chip Shortage– What?! Even Internal Combustion Engines now have loads of computer stuff
CAN Bus, electrical servos, inverter actuators, ‘smart’ sensors, etc & Less vacuum and hydraulics,
Next, Hybrid, then, all Full Electric, Chips Permitting..
SPECIAL ISSUES with the otherwise generic systems that center on Arm RISC processors
The most widespread computer you have likely never heard of : )

SOC=System On Chipped SOM=System on Module is the Problem

I just found modern cars can have up to 150 “ECUs” or Electronic Control Units.

Class Action Notifications– Are They Real?! Example:
https://www.zoommeetingsclassaction.com

Allright!

WIFI 6– what’s that and do we care?
This from Intel. No you cannot ‘upgrade’ your existing thing with
new software : ). Also– No Rush Yet- this is about the Future.
Compatible, basically with its predecessors, mind you.

A little about the drawbacks and benefits of industry collaborations like this one

Mesh Networking with UBIQUITI and TP-LINK
(Expensive versus Cheap- and Does it Work?!)

Robot RECAPTCHA no longer needs you to fill in Bridges, Hiils and Cars : )

By the Way: Here is how real hacks happen— From Inside.

SMART the Idiot Light on your Hard Drive Dashboard…

Smoke Detectors- Who Knew?!

What Is That Site: https://builtwith.com