Daily Archives: July 12, 2016
Not Enough Time . . .
Seen on a license plate.
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What make and color car is it?
A week or so ago I happened to notice that the clock on my Galaxy Tab 4 was off by about 5 minutes. Now this was strange since I had set the Tab to automatically sync the time when I got it a couple of years ago. So maybe that setting had been turned off somehow.
So I went into Settings – General – Date and Time.
And well, it wasn’t just turned off. It was now completely gone.
I know it was there originally, or was I just imagining it?
A Googling told I was still sane (well, I wasn’t any worse, anyway) and that the Auto Time Sync had disappeared sometime in a past update. And nobody knew why.
Now on phones, when you set ‘Automatic Date and Time’ to On, it uses the inherent time signal that is part of your phone’s connection to the cell system. But of course that won’t work on a WiFi-only tablet.
But there are other options. A very, very accurate time signal is available through your GPS connection, and you could also use a program that accesses one of the many online atomic clock sources like ‘time.windows.com’ or ‘time.nist.gov’ like your PC does.
And there are now a number of apps that will fix this. Kind of.
I looked at a number of these apps, and ClockSync seems to be one of the best. But unless your tablet is ‘rooted’ (if you don’t know what ‘rooted’ means, your tablet is almost certainly not ‘rooted’), ClockSync still not not update your device’s time automatically. But it can make it easier to manually sync it yourself.
Check it out.
A number of you have sent me info on the magnets needed for my magnetic shade project. I had already checked Home Deport and they don’t have any that are strong enough. In fact, with the ones I have now, if you can pull them apart with your bare fingers, they’re not strong enough.
Several others had the right ones, but much more expensive than before. And the ones that are vinyl coated won’t work either.
Reader John Cox turned me on to BangGood.com which looks like it might be a good source, and I’m going to check it out.
Wrapping up, I’ve posted another update to Greg’s Favorite Apps. This one is a list of my favorite Reading Utilities.
Check it out.
Thought for the Day:
Strange, but True. And sometimes too close to home.
A few weeks after he became the Dallas Police Chief in 2010, David Brown’s son was killed in a shoot-out with police after he killed a Lancaster TX police officer and another man.
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