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I have a lot of electronics, I love electronic devices though sometimes they seem to hate me. I have a device that I love over all the others and I use it for 29 years now though not on a regular daily base: my turntable. Turntables experienced a renaissance during the past decade. People like the real feel of putting vinyl on a real machine instead of just dragging mp3 files to a software. [...] 

Man, SmartHome really can be rocket science, especially if you have devices from different vendors. I always try to buy HomeKit compatible devices (except for some stupid smart sockets that I don’t need to control manually) as I want to have them all available in a single app. I know, there are some options with other third party apps and servers but I really got used to HomeKit - though it [...] 

​One thing that bugged me for a long time since we migrated to IBM Verse SmartCloud was that my mailrules weren't working anymore. Though I checked and re-saved the rules via the Notes client (on the replica of the SmartCloud mail NSF) the rules did not work. I just had some simple rules that moved mails away from the inbox under certain conditions (subject, sender etc.) As Verse itself [...] 

This is basically for me to remember and to find it again once I stumble upon this message again. Sometimes you will get this error message when trying to refresh or replace the design of a database using a template. If so, please check if the template comes with a predefined ACL, especially roles. If the database that you want to update does not have all the roles in it’s ACL this me [...] 

IBM and HCL did their first webcast about the future of Domino V10. Yes, a real product upgrade and not another Feature Pack. This was a publicly announced event so I guess I am fine to post about details - and there were a lot of them! The webcast with 1500+ 1900+ attendees (!) was hosted by some key people of the current collaboration construct announced in October last year: Bob Schult [...] 

After the latest iOS 11 update I experienced a problem with HomeKit remote access via the Apple TV. I was wasn’t able to get access to my devices outside the local wifi i.e. LTE/mobile network. The solution was simple: update also to the latest tvOS, then goto Settings, Account, iCloud, HomeKit. Click on the option so that it displays „Disconnected“. Open the HomeKit settin [...]