Reading Time: 3 minutes A television guide for your tablet There was a time when watching television was easy. You picked what you wanted to watch from the three major networks. If you wanted to know what was playing you grabbed your TV Guide and you had all the information at your fingertips. The Digital Era There has been… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes What You Need to Know to Bluetooth your TV You may need to Bluetooth your TV as I needed to do recently. As my wife and I have grown older the volume of the TV has gone up. But if your home is like my home one of us is farther down the road of hearing… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Making an Ethernet Port Wireless Making an ethernet port wireless was something I needed to do. I have an older dish box located in a place that did not have an ethernet cable connection available. The box does not have wireless capability. It does have one USB and one ethernet port. I did not want to use… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remote Control Repair Remote control repair may be in your future. In many cases, your remote may not be working because too much dirt has built up inside between the PCB and the rubber buttons.  If you have an old toothbrush, some cotton swabs and a bit of rubbing alcohol, carefully cleaning to remove any… Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutes Building an OTA Antenna system Building an OTA antenna system is all about cutting the ties to cable/satellite television or limiting how deep they get into your wallet. The last analog TV broadcast in the United States ended June 12th (Friday), 2009. With the introduction of digital TV, the number of over-the-air network channels has… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes What is a drip loop and why you need it? I had a conversation about what is a drip loop with an installer from my satellite television provider. I was present when he tried to pull the wire from outside my home into the attic for further distribution. In the past, I have had problems… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Dog House Grille The Dog House Grille. I was recently in Fresno, Ca. to wrap up some business. So after a long day we finally got to have some lunch. I had recently been to another barbecue restaurant in the area after first coming here and finding it absolutely swamped with people. After last… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Basic Hash Brown Potatoes I was looking at a TV celebrity make hash browns today. It got me to thinking as I watched the celebrity add what seemed like exotic ingredients to his hash browns. It got me to thinking that I had not seen anyone of the television personalities prepare simple hash browns. That brought me to… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes What Happened To Free TV What happened to free tv? It wasn’t too long ago that the rooftops of the cities were covered in television antennas. There were 3 networks from which to choose our television watching. Then the cable era arrived and a sudden bloom of new networks along with it. After that, the satellite systems came… Read More »