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Ultimate Holiday Eggnog Latte

This awesome latte can do double duty for Christmas or New Year’s. Simple to make and delicious to drink. My wife says it is head and shoulders above StarBucks eggnog latte. Our friends say it brightens up their holidays. Here is the recipe: (makes 2-4 cups depending on your espresso maker/bialetti) *note: this entire recipe costs about $0.25 a cup in ingredients and requires minimal equipment. Ingredients: +Medium coffee (can also use decaf) +Whole milk (substitute soy milk, oat milk

How to enter the BIOS on Windows 10 Lenovo Laptops

Some recent Lenovo laptops lack a keyboard hotkey to enter the BIOS. Instead, the laptops utilize a dedicated “Novo” hardware button on the side of the machine. Press the dedicated button to access the BIOS. Here are specific instructions for entering the BIOS or selecting the Boot Menu on a modern Lenovo laptop: Power OFF the laptop Press the Novo button* *it may be on the left or the right side of the laptop Voila, you can now enter the BIOS

Ninja Coffee Bar: DEEP CLEANING/Enhanced cleaning [SOLVED]

The Ninja coffee bars are great devices but they do require descaling and sometimes the normal descale clean does not alleviate the clean light coming on. Thankfully, there is a longer deeper cleaning option available! (See below) Oddly, Ninja seems to make it very hard to find their deep “enhanced cleaning” instructions for the Nina Coffee Bar. I checked their FAQ and support pages with minimal success. Finally, I found the full instructions! 🙂 Here they are for your reference:

Adding external antenna to hotspot from FreedomPop.com

I am a big fan of FreedomPop phones and hotspots. They offer some pretty good hardware with decent connectivity as a nearly free cost, especially once all their “add ons” and “plan upgrades” have been declined or removed from their packages. Specifically, I have: Nexus 5 – it has been a phenomenal phone and was absurdly cheap through FreedomPop. Photon 4G Hotspot  – worked admirably for a remote client location and now serves a local church. Hotspot 2 – just arrived

Amazon “App Only” Deals and Giveaways

Amazon has been running some exclusive “App Only” giveaways for their Android, Fire and iOS (Apple) apps. However, finding the giveaways in the app can be tricky. Thankfully, there is a direct link available! Here is the Link: App Only Giveaway – Amazon.com App By using the direct link on your phone or tablet, you can directly access the giveaways. Please note that there are new giveaways every day! 🙂

Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 40-150mm F4-5.6 R ED Review

The Olympus 40-150mm is an inexpensive ($99 new) micro four thids kit lens that performs very well for the price. The 35mm equivalent of 80-300mm in a very compact package compares favorably to the cheap 70-300mm options out there: Build quality is good and handling is nice on a variety of m43rd bodies. The lens is not stabilized and therefore pairs better with cameras that feature in body image stabilization (most Olympus bodies and a few Panasonic bodies) to help