Electric vehicles and plugin hybrids are finally breaking out of the niche enthusiast market into the main stream. Although EV’s have been around for over 100 years now, networked charging infrastructure is a very new thing. The ability to find these stations, determine whether they are operational, book a charging appointment and pay for electricity […]
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How to send a package on a Sunday to a PO Box
My weekdays can get pretty busy so I tend to run a lot of errands and try to catch up with personal things on the weekends. Today (Sunday) I was trying to mail a package to my friend and found out that the local UPS store was closed. Next I tried the Fedex Kinko’s office […]
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To create an input field that highlights and auto copies on click, this isn’t using flash. The idea is that users will intuitively understand that clicking inside an input box grabs the copy inside. To create an input field that highlights and auto copies on click, this isn’t using flash. The idea is that users […]
Read the rest of this entry »How to switch TV listings and listings by channel Comcast Xfinity
So the other day I was watching TV and searching through the channels with the silver remote that Comcast provides (shown below) and somehow the guide got switched from TV listings to a mode called listings by channel. I was really confused and bummed because I didn’t know how to fix it immediately and I […]
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I recently got my windows tinted at SimpleCarz in Mountain View, CA and had SunTek Carbon Series window film put on. Since I live in California the tint on the driver and passenger windows had to meet legal specifications, transmitting 70% of the visible light, presumably so you can’t cheat on carpool lanes and so […]
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I recently purchased a Klean stainless steel water bottle to keep in my car as a backup water supply. I chose this particular bottle, the klean kanteen, because it can hold 64 ounces and won’t let plastic leach into the water over the course of weeks and months of sitting in the heat and direct […]
Read the rest of this entry »How to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge provides great views of San Francisco and the Bay Area with Alcatraz and Angel Island in the distance and Sausalito and the Marin Headlands just across the other side. The bridge itself is very walkable at just over one and a half miles in length (1.7 miles including the approach) and […]
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