Reading Time: 2 minutes Problem When uploading music to Google Play Music with the Google Music Manager app, web browsing and other internet activity becomes impossible. Discussion If your router is running the stock firmware, Google Music Manager can quickly saturate an internet connection and bring it to its knees. The “bandwidth available for uploading” setting appears to be for […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Problem The one galling failure of Google Play Music’s web app is the lack of support for gapless playback. Other than that, it just about puts the final nail in iTunes’ coffin. Discussion iTunes is a mature product that has gone to great lengths to implement gapless playback perfectly. Solution G-Ear Player for OS X. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Problem After replacing a broken kitchen faucet, the “builders’ special” cheap plastic FlowTite water valve began to leak extremely slowly at the annoying rate of about one drop every 5-10 minutes. Discussion A few years ago, another FlowTite valve had a similarly excruciating leak after slight movement during some plumbing work. That leak, so slow that […]