technology Archives - Justin Reinhart

Internet Stops Working After Update to iOS 8.4.1 (Fixed)

Sep

28

2015

I was asked to update an iPhone 5 to iOS 8 and after I did so the device could not connect to the internet for more than a few minutes. Connecting the phone to Wifi would IMMEDIATELY break the phone’s data connections and they could not be recovered until rebooting the phone. Upon doing so ...

Amazot.com is Live!

Sep

14

2015

A website I have been working on for a long time is now operational. Amazot.com presents pricing information from Amazon.com, and makes it public when items are on sale. It primarily targets video games. There’s so much data and graphs that its amazing to look at. Really, all you have to do is head over there ...

Installing New WiFi card into Hackintosh

Jun

19

2014

I have a Dell Latitude e6510 laptop which came with a Broadcom 1501 wireless card which is completely incompatible with a hackintosh installation. I can tell you definitively after hours of research that the only solution to this problem is to replace the wireless “card” with a compatible model. The desirable model for me was ...

Solved Mac OS X 10.8.5 WiFi failure with Simple Rollback

Jun

19

2014

I was experiencing major problems with the Mac OS X 10.8.5 update I solved them by rolling back to 10.8.0 (via USB stick) and then updating manually to 10.8.4. Symptoms after updating from 10.8.4 to 10.8.5: Mac OS is slower to boot up Keyboard and mouse and external USB devices do not work for 10 ...

How to Wash Your Keyboard 2

Jun

20

2013

I routinely clean my keyboard about every 6 months using a dishwasher. Didn’t know you could do that? Well you can if you follow some simple rules. In theory, you can wash any electronics as long as there is NO electricity because of NO power source including NO micro-batteries and NO capacitors that could store electricity. ...

Learning at 1.5x

Jun

5

2013

I watch a lot of learning material at 1.5x speed or even 2.x speed. When a presenter talks slow or you feel the material just isn’t moving along fast enough, you can save a lot of time by accelerating video playback. Here are a few ways that I do it. YouTube It is possible to ...

Trello Card Cover Preview Template for Photoshop

Jul

19

2012

This is my template for making great card cover previews. I hope this helps people out. I’m a big fan of Trello. If you’re reading this Fog Creek, thanks guys. Best, Justin Trello Card Cover Preview Template for Photoshop TrelloCardCoverTemplate-PSD.zip Features Safe zones to predict auto-cropping by Trello Wide-screen format (2.4:1) Sharp & opaque ...

Open Letter to Netflix

Apr

1

2012

Dear Netflix, I was calling to report a minor bug, but seems like I stumbled upon a few more issues, eh? Issues My Instant Queue keeps changing from 161 movies to 148 movies, and back again, roughly half the time I click “Instant Queue.” (This is the problem I was originally calling about.) This is reproducible ...