How to Recover Clicking Hard Drive

Keeping a large audio library built over fifteen years, we’re quite anal about keeping current backups. That’s your first, best strategy for how to recover a hard drive that is clicking!  Hopefully, you’ve made recent backups of the HDD before it began clicking. Indeed, backup drives enable us to quickly replace clicking hard disk drives … Continue reading How to Recover Clicking Hard Drive

How to Connect Spotify to Alexa Smart Speakers

Here, we describe how to connect your account on Spotify to your Amazon Alexa smart speakers.  After you finish Spotify setup, you can listen to your personal playlists and collections  saved on your Spotify account, on any of your Amazon Echo speakers. How to Connect Spotify to Alexa Smart Speakers What you’ll Need First You … Continue reading How to Connect Spotify to Alexa Smart Speakers

How to Link Pandora to Echo Dot Speaker

This post shows how to link Pandora to Echo Dot speakers. Note that Amazon Echo Dot devices do not come with Pandora enabled by default. Indeed, Pandora will not play if not first set up. E.g. If you ask an Echo Dot to play Pandora when not set up, she says something like, “To play … Continue reading How to Link Pandora to Echo Dot Speaker

How to Reboot Samsung Galaxy J7 Sky Pro Phone

In this piece, we run though how to reboot Samsung Galaxy J7 Sky Pro TracFone Android phone. You might do this to fix strange behaviors on this smart phone, or to answer the weekly prompts to restart it to maintain reliable operation. There’s no Reboot button built into the Sky Pro. So rebooting it is … Continue reading How to Reboot Samsung Galaxy J7 Sky Pro Phone

How to Clean Glasses with Anti Glare Coating

We’ve worn eye glasses with anti glare coatings for three decades, and got advice from several optometrists about how best to clean them. How to clean glasses with anti glare coating is not hard once you learn how to handle them safely, which cleaners work the most gently, and which cleaning cloths scratch the lenses … Continue reading How to Clean Glasses with Anti Glare Coating

How to Reset JBL Flip 4 Bluetooth Speaker

Explains how to reset the  JBL Flip 4 speaker to return it to default settings.  Resetting erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory.  Clearing these stops the Flip 4 from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices after the reset.  Also, you might reset your JBL Bluetooth speaker to get it ready for sale … Continue reading How to Reset JBL Flip 4 Bluetooth Speaker

How to Reboot an Unresponsive iPod Touch

Now and again, we’ve noted that the touch screen responsiveness on the iPod Touch MC011LL disappears.  E.g. Touching and moving the finger across the screen produces no action from the iPod.  Thus, you cannot unlock it to play music or run other apps. The only way we find to fix this and unfreeze the screen, … Continue reading How to Reboot an Unresponsive iPod Touch

How to Change Amazon Echo Dot Name

How to change Amazon Echo Dot name?  You can indeed change the name that the Amazon Alexa enabled speakers respond to when you say it.  Current choices are, “Alexa…,” “Amazon…,” “Computer…,” and “Echo…”  This word is the name you call out to wake up the voice assistant.  The speaker then begins listening for a command.  Calling Alexa’s name … Continue reading How to Change Amazon Echo Dot Name

How to Turn Off Logitech Wonderboom 2 Speaker

We explain how to turn off a Logitech Wonderboom 2 dirt proof speaker here.  Now most speakers have a Power button that they prominently place on the unit so it’s easy to find.  Indeed, this speaker is no exception to this rule, since we find its Power button right on top, near the front, as … Continue reading How to Turn Off Logitech Wonderboom 2 Speaker