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Ice on the windshield
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De-ice and warm up your car before you get in with little to no cost

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 Paul King 0 Comments

Not exactly baby gadget related, but thought I’d share one of my hacks/projects that can keep you from having to

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Google Home Mini
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Google Home no longer yells actions in routines

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 Paul King 0 Comments

If you’ve ever set a routine on a Google Home, you probably noticed that it would tell you every single

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WiFi smart bulbs
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Creating a child sleep light with a multicolored WiFi bulb and IFTTT

March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 Paul King 0 Comments Home Automation, IFTTT

I’d written before about creating a child nightlight/sleep timer using Google Home. It worked, but we had the issue of

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Lenovo 10" Smart Display with Google Assistant
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Using Google Home and a WiFi LED bulb to make a timed child sleep light

December 26, 2018December 26, 2018 Paul King 0 Comments

The purpose of this project is to have a light be a certain color when it’s near bedtime, another color

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2009 was a special time
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Take a million photos of you and the kids for Christmas and can’t use any one of them? Perhaps try this.

November 28, 2018 Paul King 0 Comments

We had a friend come over the other day, we were attempting to recreate a photo we’d taken nine years

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Cloudflare lockout
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Locked out of WordPress by Jetpack, a quick thing I learned today

October 8, 2018 Paul King 0 Comments Cloudflare, Jetpack

As I was coming to post fascinating new content this morning I received a notice that my IP had been

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traffic jam
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Managing your kid pickups in traffic nightmare city

September 21, 2018 Paul King 0 Comments

I live in Nashville. It’s called the IT city at the moment because businesses have flocked here and so have

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Toast Made custom real wood wraps
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Google Home can now play your kid’s CD collection

August 2, 2018 Paul King 0 Comments Google Assistant, Google Home, music

One of the issues I encountered when I got a Google Home was that none of my CDs would play.

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Google Play Games
Games How-To 

Moving Android game data from an old phone to a new

July 29, 2018 Paul King 0 Comments

I don’t play much with my wife’s phone. However when her HTC 10’s glass shattered while sitting still on a

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Dust Motes dancing in the sunlight from WiKiMedia commons
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Updated: Are you sure your AC filters are working? Hint: they’re probably not

July 26, 2018September 10, 2018 Paul King 0 Comments

I watched my child looking at motes of dust floating in the air one morning and she was fascinated. I

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What’s this charge from Amazon FreeTime Unltd 866-216-1072?

November 30, 2017November 30, 2017 Paul King 0 Comments

You’re looking at your credit card bill, you see an unexpected charge from Amazon FreeTime Unltd 866-216-1072. The charge is for about

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Paul King - 6 months ago
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Paul King - 7 months ago
How to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
I'll check this out tonight unless it's chaos - I think in the new version of FireOS you have to go into the adult profile, share the app with the kid in order for it to even be seen. They added some...
BillinCT
BillinCT - 8 months ago
How to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
I know this was 10 months ago, but things have changed. I succesffuly made this work 3 years ago using ES explorer. We got a replacement tablet and I did everything I had done before, but ES...
Roo the Hunter
Roo the Hunter - 2 years ago
The day my 4yo went full Jackass
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Paul King
Paul King - 2 years ago
How to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
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