How to Make Sony Cube Speaker Discoverable

To pair your Sony cube speaker with a Bluetooth device for the first time, or to refresh old connection info in that device, you have to know how to start up discovery mode on this speaker.  Now in this mode, the speaker broadcasts its name and currently valid connection information over the Bluetooth airwaves, so … Continue reading How to Make Sony Cube Speaker Discoverable



How to Put Ultimate Ears Wonderboom in Pairing Mode

To pair your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom speaker with a Bluetooth source device for the first time, or to refresh old connection info in that device, you have to know how to start up pairing mode on the speaker.  When in this mode, the speaker broadcasts its name and currently valid connection information over the Bluetooth … Continue reading How to Put Ultimate Ears Wonderboom in Pairing Mode



Finding Radio Stream URL Using URL Snooper 2

Perhaps you like listening to an internet radio station on your computer on the station’s web site. But you would also like to play it on an internet radio that does not contain a web browser for playing.  To do this, you may need to know the actual radio stream URL.  Indeed, if your radio’s … Continue reading Finding Radio Stream URL Using URL Snooper 2



How to Pair Victor Reader Trek with Google Home

The Victor Reader Trek GPS navigator, eBook player, podcatcher, and web radio can connect to most any Bluetooth speaker.  This allows listening to podcasts, books, recorded notes, and streaming internet radio through that speaker. We thus show here how to pair Victor Reader Trek with Google Home speakers that can act as Bluetooth speakers. How … Continue reading How to Pair Victor Reader Trek with Google Home



How to Turn Off Temporary Hold on Honeywell Thermostat

Here, we cover how to turn off temporary hold on a typical Honeywell thermostat.  But why would temporary hold ever be ON to start with? Well, the temporary hold feature on programmable thermostats lets the user override scheduled temperature settings, and set the temperature manually.  This new temperature setting remains in effect until the next … Continue reading How to Turn Off Temporary Hold on Honeywell Thermostat



Sony DVP SR210P DVD Player Review

The Sony DVP-SR210P DVD player plays CDs, data disks with MP3 files, and can display pictures in JPEG format. It’s among the most inexpensive DVD players we’ve seen.  Yet it appears very well constructed; we’ve used a similar model (the HDMI version) for several years now without problems.  This player epitomizes a mature technology; one … Continue reading Sony DVP SR210P DVD Player Review



Sony MDR V500DJ Professional DJ Headphones Review

WE owned the Sony MDR-V500DJ Professional DJ Headphones for twenty years. So we’ve used them with many and varied CD players, iPods, mixing boards, headphone amps, and headphone pre amps. We found them exceptional audio devices in so many aspects on our mobile disc jockey gigs. These dynamic earphones offer probably the best sound of … Continue reading Sony MDR V500DJ Professional DJ Headphones Review



UE Speaker Charging Recharging Instructions

Here’s our UE speaker charging instructions for most models in the UE speaker lineup.  Recharging is easy through the USB DC in port on the rear of most UE speaker.  Some models, in the Boom, Megaboom, and Blast series may also provide support for charging via a recharging stand. But regardless of how you do … Continue reading UE Speaker Charging Recharging Instructions



Sony Cube Speaker Charging Instructions

This article gives Sony Cube speaker charging instructions. Recharge this speaker easily through the micro USB DC power input port, on the back of the unit, shown in the pictures below. Note that you can still play your cube while juicing it up, without affecting the replenish time too much, especially when you use a … Continue reading Sony Cube Speaker Charging Instructions



Xerox Phaser 3150 Setup Instructions

This personal laser printer, the Phaser 3150 resembles a thick and heavy plastic tank. Nice printer, though older.  Yet we want to keep using it as long as possible.  So we hope that these Xerox Phaser 3150 setup instructions long outlive our printer. It’s substantial, prints crystal clear pages, as one would expect from a … Continue reading Xerox Phaser 3150 Setup Instructions