Avery Singh

Also check for any shipping tape or cardboard around the jar and lid locks; even a small piece can keep the safety switch from closing. On some models you need to hold the power button for 2–3 seconds to wake it and the speed dial has to be at 0/Off before it will start. With it unplugged, make sure the blades spin freely by hand; if they’re stuck, the overload won’t let it turn on. If none of that brings the power light on, it’s likely a defective unit and a straightforward exchange is best.

We went with a camera that runs on our home WiFi and paired to our phones. Mesh coverage in a two-story can make all the difference, so I added a node upstairs in the hall and the feed stays solid through walls and floors. benefit is range beyond the house if I step to the mailbox, plus instant alerts when motion or sound kicks in. I locked it down with strong passwords and local only access. Power blips can be a pain so a small battery backup on the router and the camera keeps it running during short outages. Works everywhere in the house.

Seen this a thousand times. Pull everything to one place and sort by EXIF date into YYYY/MM, and rename to YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_original. Use one cloud service as a mirror, not a second library. Set a monthly import reminder and stop touching the structure.

One home base solves it. After the last soccer tournament flooded my camera roll, I picked iCloud Photos and turned on auto-upload across phone, laptop, and tablet so everything lands in the same spot. Ran a one-time dupe cleanup on the laptop with dupeGuru, let People and Places tag most of it, and kept a few simple albums for trips. I do a 5 minute Friday cleanup for screenshots and a monthly external drive backup so I can forget about it the rest of the time.