Daily Archives: April 9, 2016

April 9, 2016   Uncategorized

In Your Pocket . . .

I had hoped to have some information on the armrest fuse box on Barbara’s 2001 National Seaview by today, but no luck.

As I said yesterday, this is the way the guy who installed Barbara’s running lights did things. He got power for the lights by pulling a fuse, put the wire down in the socket, and then plugging the fuse back in.

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Then he just put the cover back on, leaving the wires and the switch hanging out loose.

And Barbara wonders why her left turn signal AND her running light no longer work. But to have a chance of tracking down the problem, I really need the layout of the fuse panel. And so far I’ve come up empty.

I posted a cry for help on RV.net and IRV2.net, as well as Ed Hurlburt’s RV Tips group on Facebook. But although I got some suggestions, nothing panned out. So I’ll keep looking.

Since we’re leaving tomorrow for Lake Conroe, I told Barbara that I was going to keep  researching things, and hopefully would have something when we come back here in two weeks. Told her I might even try driving around the Lake Conroe TT looking for another Seaview.

Hey, I’m getting desperate here.

Well, after a couple of days of XLTE and almost 50 Mbps data, I’m still back stuck at 3G and 3 Mbps. At least before, I did have 4G here, but since the ‘upgrade’ and the initial burst of speed, we’ve been hung up at 3G.  Hopefully it’ll be fixed permanently when we get back here in two weeks.

I’ve come across another neat app called Pocket that works across your PC, Smartphones, and Tablets, in the same vein as Dropbox or Evernote. It allows you to save a complete webpage with just a click.

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After setting up your free account, and installing the program on all your devices, you then can install the ‘bookmarklet’ in the Bookmarks Bar at the top of your browser.

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Then when you want to save a web page, you just click the Pocket button on the bar, and Bazinga, the complete page is saved to your account. And it looks like this.

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You can also save pages via email by emailing the page link to your account using the address [email protected]. Since it comes from your email address, the page gets saved to your account.

One thing to note, is that what is saved is the complete page, so it can be read offline. And everything is saved, photos, links, and text.

Check it out.

Heads up, Adobe has issued an emergency Flash update announcement, warning about a new ransomware attack. By exploiting a vulnerability in Flash, hackers can infect your machine and then encrypt all your data, holding it for ransom.

And it you don’t pay, in untraceable Bitcoins, within the allowed timeframe, you lose everything on your computer forever.

So ASAP, go to this Adobe site, and it will tell you if you need to update your Flash. And if you use several different browsers, i.e., IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc., do this with each one.

Do It Now!

Wrapping up, I want to mention my son-in-law Lowell’s new business and website. After over 20 years in the transportation industry booking freight loads, he’s gone out on his own as an Independent Landstar Agent, shipping freight around the world.

So it you have anything you want to ship anywhere around the world, you can check out his website here at Lowell’s Logistics.

Thought for the Day:

“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.” – Calvin.

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