Night-time Photography

Posted on May 20, 2020June 2, 2020 by jrblack Leave a comment

My previous phone was an LG G6. It was a great phone, and had a really good camera… but night-time or dark photos was a real challenge for it to say the least. With my Pixel 4 XL, I can now decent if now capture decent if not great looking photos at dusk even at […]... Read More

Pixel 4XL

Posted on November 30, 2019May 27, 2020 by jrblack Leave a comment

So, for the past 2 years my phone has been the LG G6, and it was a good phone. Loved it, it was snappy, took great photos and video, water resistant, all that good stuff. All 5 members of my family had one. 2 years before that it was the LG G4 that suffered the […]... Read More

Mobile blogging.

Posted on June 17, 2019June 27, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

Hey, it’s been a while since I’ve posted something to my blog. Caitlin has just begun her time at Governor’s School at High Point University and topics have been how to take pictures and share what she’s doing and learning while she’s there. Which made me think of blogging. And I wondered what easy tools […]... Read More

Xamarin.iOS – The root assembly conflicts with another assembly

Posted on February 1, 2019June 27, 2019 by jrblack 1 Comment

This error got me for a while yesterday and this morning. It simply means what it states, but being new to Xamarin Forms mobile development, in multiple platforms (iOS, Android and Windows), I wasn’t exactly sure what it meant or how to fix it. The Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\Xamarin\iOS\Xamarin.iOS.Common.targets (794,3): error MT0023: The […]... Read More

Sharing videos from Google Photos on YouTube

Posted on July 13, 2018January 16, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

In a previous post I had documented how to share your videos from Google Photos to YouTube, but as I discovered a few days ago, the method there (using Google Drive website, to get you videos on Google Photos to YouTube no longer works. I found that you can easily share them right from Google […]... Read More

uBlock Origin

Posted on June 26, 2018July 10, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

AdBlock… what ever happened to that Extension? It just stopped working, Chrome kept reporting it was disabled, but after clicking the Enable this Extension link, it still would not enable. I complained to a co-worker and he said, “AdBlock is no longer the goto extension for blocking adds in Chrome browser… but uBlock Origin is […]... Read More

Android Messages for web

Posted on June 26, 2018June 28, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

Though I recently started using MightyText and posted about it recently, the FREE version limits you to 150 messages… Well, when you have 3 kids, work, sports, dance, and busy family, 150 messages a month is not enough. The good news… Google recently released Android Messages for web. This new Messages Web App allows you […]... Read More

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