TV Antennas still work! How to get rid of your cable subscription.

  I used to have cable. Month after month, Comcast would send me a $30 bill, begging me to upgrade my plan to get a hundred other channels I didn't use. I was on the cheapest plan available, and there were still channels I didn't want! All I wanted to see were the football games and the news, but I still had to pay. Then came the final straw: one day, the TV stopped working. They wanted me to get a "digital adapter". It was quite a struggle to get it. First, their website refused to let me request one. I called them, and they sent me the wrong type. When they finally sent me an HD adapter, they slipped in a hint that it would have an annual fee!
  On top of all that, the whole purpose of the adapter is to convert a digital signal to an analog signal! I have a digital TV! I guess this was just another trick Comcast uses to force users into buying a more expensive package. So, at long last, I researched my options. I could just keep using this horrendous box, paying $30 a month, and using a clunky remote given to me by Comcast, always being pressured into paying more, more, more! Or I could switch to Dish, or some other provider.
  But then it hit me. I could get a TV antenna. Of course! Free, with all the channels I wanted. Let me repeat this: get a TV antenna. No more paying for channels that are already free over the air. You can watch all the news channels, PBS, and all of your home team's (go Seahawks!) football games for FREE.
  And for all you people out there who think antennas are a huge hassle to install, they're not! You can get "indoor" antennas, where all the setup you need is to tape a floppy piece of plastic to your wall! Seriously!

IMPORTANT NOTE: I would not recommend doing this if you live in an underground apartment.

Slightly complicated but rewarding process:

 
1. Choose your antenna. I highly recommend getting an "indoor antenna". The thing with antennas is that the longer range ones are more expensive. As usual, I recommend the AmazonBasics brand.
2. Unplug your cable connection to your TV (this may be hard, but persevere: think of all the money you will save)
3. Plug the antenna cable into the newly free port
4. Tape your antenna to the wall, or to a window.
5. Search for channels on your TV. Make sure to switch mode from "Cable" to "Air".
6. If a channel you want is not there, move the antenna and try again. Eventually you will get it! Remember, closer to the window does not necessarily mean better signal. Sometimes the signal will bounce off a wall, making an inner wall a better place to put it than on the window itself. 

Do not cancel your cable subscription until you get the antenna working!

Amazing life hack to take pics from a website and upload it somewhere else

You won't believe how convenient this is.

Have you ever had to grab an image or any files from one website (Dropbox, for example), and upload it to another (like Google Drive)? If so, you probably know the painful process of downloading them all and re-uploading them, cluttering up your download file. Here is the elegant, easy way to do it that WORKS ALL WEBSITES THAT USE THE STANDARD FILE CHOOSER.

1. Get your url
2. Go to the upload website, and do what you would normally do to upload a file from hard disk. In that window, under file name, enter the url:

Click open. The window will lag a bit:

but then the file will be fetched from that url directly to the other website! As simple as that!

How to play Amazon Prime Music on Sonos (and listen to all music for free using YouTube)

When the new Prime Music feature came out, I was pretty excited. Being an avid Amazoner, with a package arriving at my house almost every day, I had signed up for Prime. I also owned a Sonos sound system after my ancient CD/cassette player broke down. Would this mean that the days of buying songs were over?
I quickly realized the bad news: Amazon Music for Sonos doesn't support Prime Music. To make the songs that are free on my phone work on the Sonos, I would have to buy them.
      *sad face*
But then, after living for months with this sad reality, I had a great idea! I would plug a Bluetooth audio receiver into the Line-In port of my PLAY:5, then just pair my phone with it and use it like a Jambox! To all the tech noobs out there, don't worry. It's actually pretty simple. Here's how it works:

YOU ONLY NEED TO BUY ONE THING (~$25):

• A Bluetooth Audio Receiver (small box), such as the AmazonBasics Bluetooth 4.0 Audio Receiver

DEVILISHLY DIFFICULT SETUP (involves many steps!):

1. Plug the audio receiver in to the "Line-In" port (looks like a computer's headphone jack) of your speaker. You can do this using the cable that came with your receiver box.

You're done!

How it works: This system works by turning your Internet speaker into "wireless headphones" for your phone. This way, if you can play it on your phone, you can play it on your speaker.

BRIEF INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE:

1. Pair your phone with the receiver, as you would pair it with a Jambox.
2. In the first screen of the Sonos app, tap Line-in
3. Play your Prime music. It will magically start playing on your Sonos Speaker!