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  • Disable Wi-Fi Assist on Your iPhone to Avoid Excess Data Charges!

    In iOS 9, Apple added a feature called Wifi-Assist that the description says “Automatically use cellular data when Wi-Fi connectivity is poor.” Oh boy! New features! Don’t be so enthused. With the decision to default to having this feature turned on, I’m pretty sure Apple has received a big payoff from wireless carriers. Why? Well,…

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  • How to Fix PreSonus Audiobox USB Electrical Noise (Hissing, Popping, and Clicking) Problem

    The short answer that fixed the electrical noise problem: Plug a powered USB hub into a USB port on your machine. Then plug the Audiobox USB into that. From what I can tell, if your USB port isn’t putting out enough power, you will get hissing and/or electrical wave noise. (I used a cheap, powered…

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  • Introducing Jerry.Education

    I have created a new domain, jerry.education, as a place to aggregate all of my educational resources. I feel it will help more people find my digital literacy resources than just hosting them here, as the URL itself is rather self-descriptive. I am going to leave the Desktop Publishing Projects page here for legacy purposes,…

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  • Wifi Signal Map at My Place

    Today I used the free Ekahau HeatMapper on Windows to map out the wifi signal strengths here at the house. I took the resulting map into Photoshop and made, what I consider, a fairly nice map. (Note that it is not perfectly to scale, because I don’t have an actual floor plan to use as…

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  • Dual-boot Windows Technical Preview (aka Windows 10) on a UEFI-Enable Computer

    I’m really excited about the Windows Technical Preview (aka Windows 10) that was released today. I decided to forgo a virtual machine and dual-boot it on my laptop running Windows 8.1. My laptop is an Asus G55VW and the existing Windows 8.1 installation being setup in UEFI (with the requisite GPT partition scheme). I downloaded…

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  • Appalachia 2050

    I just had the pleasure of finishing a documentary by Prestonsburg native Ralph B. Davis entitled Appalachia 2050. Davis interviews several influential and educated people in Eastern KY, asking them what needs to be done so that the region will have overcome the issues still present after nearly fifty years of LBJ’s War on Poverty.…

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  • A Fix for Windows Installer Error 3728

    If you ever get a Windows Installer Error Code 3728, I found a really easy fix that might work for you. ( I say might because I’ve had many problems with MSI installers over the years and it has normally been a lot of trial-and-error to fix them.) As with any fix I post, follow…

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  • Get Rid of Text Formatting (in Almost Any Program)

    Have you ever copied some text from a webpage (or any formatted program, for that matter) and pasted it into another program only to find that all the fancy formatting simply doesn’t look right in its new location? If I had a nickel for every time that copy and paste between program hasn’t played nice,…

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  • Google Search Tricks

    Google is, in my opinion, the search engine that all other search engines aspire to be. You throw in almost any half-way coherent word or phrase and Google will try its best to show you everything it thinks relates to that phrase. The cool thing is that there are many ways to help Google find…

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  • What to do if the iOS Message App is Stuck Upside Down

    Recently, I ran into an issue with the iOS Message app being stuck upside down on an iPad. By that,  I mean it would not rotate to the right orientation and was facing 180 from the power button. The first thing I checked was the rotational lock, but that wasn’t enabled (and, besides, all other…

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