Josh Sherman

Category: Money

  • Bitcoin price tracking widget for iOS with Scriptable

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    Of the crypto apps I have used, I’ve yet to find one that provides a Bitcoin price tracking widget to my liking. I’m not interested in the current price of Bitcoin, as I am interested in how my holdings (HODLINGS) are doing. Thus, enter Scriptable, an automation app for Apple devices. It allows you to…

  • How to install Family Sharing apps on macOS

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    Switching back to an iPhone eventually led to enabling Family Sharing so that we could all use the Pro Apps I had purchased last year. The Pro Apps are quite pricey (even the Education Bundle) so it’s not something I’d want to buy and re-buy. My wife’s recent endeavor into…

  • How to reset Brother HL-L3210CW Toner Cartridges

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    It took nearly two years, but we finally “ran out” of black toner for our all-time favorite printer, the Brother HL-L3210CW Laser Printer. More on why “ran out” is quoted in a moment 😉 Personally, I hate owning a printer. I only print stuff out at most twice a year,…

  • Customer-owned and managed “COAM” modems with Spectrum

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    Having moved recently, I had to not only needed to move my Internet service (through Spectrum) to the new address, as well as set up a new modem since it seemed like it was time for an upgrade. Seeing as I wasn’t able to find a ton of information about…

  • The fallacies of “unlimited” plans

    The fallacies of “unlimited” plans

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    This topic has been rattling around in my head for the last few years. It was brought to the forefront of my brain by a chance encounter at the mall with a Verizon store employee this past weekend. Who’s your current cell phone provider? Some provider other than Verizon. What…

  • There’s no harm in asking for a refund

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    If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you know that I am big proponent for giving kids an allowance. It’s not something we couple with chores because the way we look at it, as a member of Team Sherman, [it’s your obligation to help out][dinner], even if you’re not…

  • Google Price Protection

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    The of saga continues… First my phone stopped connecting to the cellular network. Then I casually reset my phone, unknowingly locking myself out of my Authy account. Then after pulling the trigger on a new phone, the Pixel 3, the Googs ran a promotion to get 200 bucks off a…

  • Not all cables were created equal

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    We’ve all heard the horror stories. Somebody gets a new monitor and it sorta works. Everything powers on, they get a picture but they can’t seem to get the monitor to go up to the advertised max resolution. Usually these stories go down the path of swapping cords, maybe even…

  • Charity starts on your hard drive

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    I’ve never been a charitable person. There, I said it. It’s not that I don’t care enough, it’s that I’ve always been somewhat selfish with my “hard earned dollars”. That said, this past January I read Dave Ramsay’s The Total Money Makeover and one of my main takeaways was that…

  • Breaking up with Bank of America

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    Today, after nearly twenty years with Bank of America (formerly Nations Bank) I gave them the boot. Was kind of sad. My relationship with BOA predates so much in my life. But all things come to an end. Except this relationship wasn’t that good. It wasn’t like the horror stories…