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Tile – find your stuff

Many years ago I purchased a four pack of location tags for keys and such. I dutifully attached these to various keyrings that could be lost. I regularly tested them in case the battery ran low. I never had to replace the batteries. And then I got a little complacent. I stopped testing as frequently as I did before (it was once a month, then once every two months, then once in a while). Then what I was trying to prevent happened. My wife misplaced her keys, I went to the master “switch” and tried to beep them – nothing. […]

A New External Battery for my Phone

I have gone through a number of batteries for my phone, always looking for either something better or something that works (preferably both).  When I moved from my Samsung Note 5 to a Samsung Galaxy S8, I needed something that would provide USB-C connectivity instead of the standard micro-USB connector.  Although the S8 comes with a converter, it isn’t quite the same.  I loved my old battery, but that would no longer work. I switched to a newer battery that had a USB-C connector built in.  This was a great find.  Eventually this battery started to have problems.  There are […]

My new Pen-Light

I saw this and had to have it.  First, it is just cool, it is a flashlight and a high powered penlight, what more could you want.  The penlight came from Amazon and was one of their deals before prime day. It came fairly quickly and the downsides, that I see so far are that it did not come with batteries It is a little bigger than your average pen