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Ever since I bought a pair of Bluetooth 4 headphones (with AptX) I've been noticing sporadic issues connecting with my Retina Macbook Pro. I've also seen posts of countless other people having the same issues. Needless to say an Apple Genius was unable to help me, but I was eventually able to get a solution thanks to the internets! My problem being, that after a while (or after being put to sleep), my Bluetooth would not reconnect to my headphones, nor would it even see any other devices nearby. I've tried repairing and switching Bluetooth off and on again, but nothing helps. The only thing that helps is to reboot my Mac. This is kind of troublesome since I may be busy with a VMWare session debugging code in a session etc. This problem has persisted since Mavericks up to El Capitan so far. Anyway, a solution someone proposed was to switch the WiFi off and back on again ... and this solved my issue. For me this is cool, since VMWare seems to keep my network stabl...

Quite a few posts out there seem to think the only way to accomplish this is to do a factory reset and/or wipe all user data. As Android is moving to a faster release cycle, combined with the new measures to ensure an unaltered installation, this procedure is going to become more used. It might also be possible to flash the latest factory images non-destructively to emulate a OTA, but I'm not 100% sure of this (yet). That is not true, all you will need to do is to revert certain partitions on your phone to stock (boot, recovery and system), and you can do this without wiping apps or user data. This is because of new restrictions in Android Lollipop (for whatever reason) I had to flash a custom boot when 5.0 was released to be able to root my Nexus 5 using SuperSU. And this combined with the modifications this did to my system partition prevented the OTA update from working, resulting in an 'Error!' message during update. All you need to do is to download the orig...

I wired up and controlled my garage (two main doors controlling and one side door sensor only) with the following customizable source code running on an Arduino and the SmartThings platform (via a Z Wave shield. (The .groovy file you load on the web, and the .ino file you compile for the Arduino) These are the materials I used: $35 Smarthings Arduino Z Wave shield $25 Arduino Uno $10 Power supply for Arduino $10 Wire $20 Magnetic switches $8    Relay It was pretty easy, I developed all the source and did the installation in a single day (tweaked it a little the rest of the weekend) and it has been running stable for about 2 years now. The garage doors are toggles that I wired into my garage controller button wires, and they only show if the garage doors are ajar. (It does not indicate whether they are closing or opening... that was troublesome to detect with just a magnetic switch and the way garage doors open and close.) No express or implied warranty are atta...

I've customized my default key bindings on Mac to try and get some conformity amongst my many platforms. I tend to get confused, and these make it easier for me each time I switch around. For one thing, this fixed the Home and End  keys' default behavior. Also tweaked PgUp and PgDown slightly. Then also added shortcuts for the most commonly-used CTRL-<key> variants (like copy and paste). I've added/created the following file: (also creating the directory) ~/Library/KeyBindings/ DefaultKeyBinding.dict With the text content: /* ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict */ {       /* Remap Home / End to be correct :-) */       "\UF729"  = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";                   /* Home         */       "\UF72B"  = "moveToEndOfLine:";                         /* End  ...