How to fix any garage door remote control hard to trigger to open and closed

This may fix any garage door remote control, and maybe other remote control also that uses the rubber button or push button.

In my case, I have a Genie garage door and one of the remote control is working fine. The other one doesn’t. I found out the contact rubber that trigger the circuit to send a signal open and close was dirty. So I clean it up with a cotton swap and some rubbing alcohol and voila, back to normal.

Ensure your remote control is not damaged like water, or drop and cracked, or the code frequencies problem. Ensure you have good battery. This fix is simple fix for remote control that have dirty contact rubber inside the circuit board. You will need to open the remote control, just crack it open in most cases, some case would required you to use screw drivers tools. If you don’t have alcohol, you can use just plain cotton swap or even tissue, do not use water, I think it will damage the circuitry or oxidized it.

 

Don’t buy universal garage remote control until you know your unit code

The code I’m talking about here is the transmitter and receiver. There are two types of code, one is fixed and the one is rolling.

If you have a garage door opener system that uses fixed code then you’re in luck of getting any universal garage door opener remote control replacement. Because it uses fixed code and chances are in the 433mhz.

If you have a rolling code garage door opener system then you will not be able to use the fixed code universal replacement remote control. I have not come accross any universal garage door opener remote control replacement for your rolling code system yet. I don’t think it’s that easy to find if it even exist, because if it does exist then there will be great opportunity for home robbery.

If you have a rolling code, you might need to contact the manufacturer and get the replacement model same type, and reprogram the code.

Technology Credit Union Non sufficient fund charged mercy?

*** updated 12/30/2015 – Technology Credit Union refunded me the $28, with a warning email indicating that it’s the only time they will do it for me, any further charge will not be reversed 🙂

 

I’ve made a mistake of miscalculating the deposit of $1000 fund availability to my Bank. In this case, it’s Technology credit union, also known as TechCU. As a result I was charged with two $28 NSF fees. It was my mistake, I admitted. However it was just one day, well! mistake is a mistake doesn’t matter how long for that matter.

Anyhow, I’m just testing my bank mercy level. Will they have mercy for me? will they have courtesy enough to give me a break and reimburses me with the two $28? Absolutely would be nice to have $56 in the pocket back, I would be going out to treat my family a nice dinner, and would be able to say thank you TechCU 🙂 Will have to wait and see. Will update.

Greetings TechCU staff.

I’m wondering if I’m eligible for the two $28 NSF fees on 12/28 yesterday. I’ve made an honest mistake on calculating the deposit availability. I missed it by one day. Basically I made a deposit late last week of $1000 to TechCU and thought it would arrives on 12/28 yesterday to cover some of the payments on 12/28, but it didn’t make it on time and I’m being charged $28 twice for NSF. The $1000 is in the system today and I found out about the NSF fees.

I’m a long time customer and love banking with TechCU, I’m wondering if all possible I can get the two $28 reimbursed?

Wishing you all at TechCU staff a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thanks very much for your time and consideration.

Paypal Cash Back rewards changes as of February 1, 2016

Just in case you missed this email from Paypal. More of for Business account with a Debit Mastercard. I’ve took advantage of the cash back reward over the past few months for making purchase with Paypal Smartconnect, however this is not appear to be for Paypal Smartconnect, this is actual Paypal account with a debit card. So probably doesn’t impact too many people if they’re making purchase at all with a Paypal Debit card. Basically negative changes, not beneficial for the users, but probably better for Paypal business. It does makes sense however.

Upcoming adjustments to the PayPal Business Debit MasterCard® rewards program.
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PayPal <[email protected]> Today at 10:05 AM
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Cash Back rewards changes as of February 1, 2016.

We want to let you know about changes we are making to our PayPal Business Debit MasterCard® rewards program, in order to be in accordance with the existing PayPal Business Debit MasterCard Cardholder Agreement. Starting February 1, 2016, your cash back rebate payout, if any, will change in accordance with the program’s existing terms and conditions to reflect these adjustments.
As of February 1, 2016:
We’ve updated rewards program disbursements to conform to the existing Cardholder Agreement:
We will discontinue paying cash back rebates on PIN-less debit purchases, and
We will discontinue paying cash back rebates for any month if the calculated cash back payout is less than $1.00 USD
You can reference the existing PayPal Business Debit MasterCard Cardholder Agreement at https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/debitcard-full . Section 8-b-ii-3 (p.4) covers the exclusion of PIN-less debit transactions and Section 8-c (p.4) explains the minimum $1.00 payout requirement.
Remember, most signature transactions made without using your PIN do qualify for the cash back rebate. (Transactions where you use your PIN and PIN-less debit transactions are not eligible.) When you’re buying groceries, dining out, shopping at a merchant, or otherwise using the card, ask the merchant (or make the choice yourself on the terminal) to run your card as a credit transaction and be sure to sign the receipt.
Please be advised that some merchants may elect to process your transaction as a PIN-less debit transaction without offering you other options. In this case, the transaction is not eligible for cash back rebate.
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Watch out for Hertz Rental Car toll fees service charge from Platepass

It was a surprised to me when I got a bill for $30 from Platepass. I noticed it link to my rental car with Hertz in San Francisco Bay area.

I rented a Jeep for 4 days. I went to San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge once, and I noticed there wasn’t a toll person so I can pay the toll, but instead it appears to be automated somehow. The toll maybe $7 or less. However I got charged from Platepass for $30. What a ripped off huh?

Well apparently, Hertz partnership with Platepass and somewhere hidden on the rental agreement from Hertz they didn’t disclosed this information and I got ding for it, because I agreed to it with my signature somewhere. So be careful what you’re signing and be careful with Hertz, it’s not my first time have negative experience with Hertz rental car. Another time Hertz said the insurance I bought online for their car rental is useless and asking me to buy it directly from Hertz instead.

Platepass charged $5 per day, and it doesn’t matter if you use it or not, Toll that is. On top of that, the actual toll of $10 or whatever the amount you need to pay toll. So total up $30.

$30 is not much really, but the business strategy from Hertz and Platepass is a ripped off. How much money they making from people like me? a lot! there are many others.

What is going on with Bitcoin price sky rocketing toward end of 2015?

Well let keep it simple as that and not question eh? It’s going up, what else you want to ask? ah ok, why? simple answer, we don’t know! 🙂 other than the fact more buy than sell, hopefully people will continue to hold them not getting in and getting out to make a profit.

The best time to buy Bitcoin is now? yes, buy bitcoin anytime. Bitcoin in the future will only go up in value. Bitcoin volume is limited and in the past years, and going basis, people misplaced their bitcoin, server crashed, computer crashed, and those bitcoins are gone forever, it cannot be retrieved. However it’s getting better as people know to backup their wallet and commercial wallet are also available, also some Exchange are now becoming bank to keep your bitcoin safe, if you trust them :). Look like some of biggest and most trusted Bitcoin exchange are Coinbase, Bitstamp, Bitfinex, and BTC-e, depend on your regions. I wouldn’t trust any other Exchange to keep your Bitcoin. You could however uses other Exchange to convert your altcoins to Bitcoin then move it out into a more trusted Bitcoin Exchange.

The bottom line is, Bitcoin is still consider new, despite it’s been maybe 4-5 years. The best place to keep your Bitcoin wallet is a paper wallet or a offline wallet, or a wallet on a computer devices that is not hook up to the internet until you need to. So call cold wallet :). I’m pretty sure people now a day have a few old computers sitting around, maybe use one of those to keep Bitcoin wallet, and off course create a backup to a CD ROM or USB thumb-drive, I don’t recommend cloud storage to backup bitcoin though 🙂

In conclusion, I don’t know why Bitcoin go up, nor does anyone else. It could be $1 one day and $1000000000 the next day. Leave it as that. Until we have a stronger mainstream usage on Bitcoin, then we can probably do more accurate analysis on why, how, when Bitcoin go up and down.

Ethereum ETH virtual currency coin drop like a rock!

Started yesterday November 25th 2015, Ethereum ETH virtual currency coin drop like a rock from *30 to *25. However a few hours after that, it gained a little bit back. Doesn’t look like it will gain much momentum to continue its up trend.

I am mining ETH with my GPUs, am I worrying? Absolutely NOT! because it’s winter time, and I need heater to heat up my house. The power consumption is the same amount of power I would be paying if I have a heater on, and I need the heater on 24 hours to keep the house warm, so nope, not at all I’m worrying. However it would be nice to see the price of ETH go up! 🙂 it’s a plus.

In addition, I don’t pay any extra money at all for those ETH mining rig because it was left over hardware that I still have after altcoin mining went sour, but I already paid off those GPU 🙂 also sold some on ebay, only kept a few good one which is currently being use at the moment to mine ETH 🙂 it’s the only coin that might be profitable in the future and might not be considered as altcoin or scam coins.

ETH Ethereum virtual currency coin crashed
ETH Ethereum virtual currency coin crashed

Ghash.io CEX.io closing down multipool mining and removal of altcoins

Not just Ghash.io CEX.io, but I think many others multipools and others Exchange will be closing down alt coins that are consider as scam.

Bitcoin is the only coins that can really be trusted, it’s like the USD and EURO currency. Second to Bitcoin is Litecoin (LTC) and third probably Dogecoin.

Ghash.io and CEX.io announced today it suspend altcoins and multipools, see message below.

 

Altcoins Removal and
Multipool Suspension

Dear user,
Please mind that as of 1 Dec, 2015, DVC and IXC mining on GHash.IO pool will be stopped. GHash.IO multipool will be suspended as well.
Hence, the following altcoins will be removed from CEX.IO exchange: IXC, DVC, POT, ANC, MEC, WDC, FTC, DGB, USDE, MYR, AUR.
Thus, we kindly ask you to either withdraw altcoin funds to your personal wallets, or exchange them into Bitcoins before 15 Dec 2015, when all orders in order books that contain above mentioned altcoins will be cancelled.
Please note that BTC, NMC, LTC, DOGE, and DRK mining will not be affected.
Detailed information is available on CEX.IO forum.

Ethereum ETH mining pool ethpool or nanopool?

Short answer is, it’s the same, except one pay you twice a day and one pay you when it’s time.

I started mining Ethereum (ETH) virtual currency coins just a few days ago, five days to be exact. I did some research on it, and trying to find out which pool to mine. I have two 7970 GPU at the moment. One I mine at ethpool.org and one at eth.nanapool.org Both appears to have the same interface layout, website.

ethpool.org using win7 64bit 4GB RAM and mine with qtminer.exe, mining at 20mh/s yield about 1ETH a day. However I didn’t get paid until five days later. It’s the way the pool is setup, you need to get credit, the longer you stay in the pool will determine when you will get pay.

nanpool.org, using win 7 64bit 4GM RAM and mine with etherminer.exe, mining at 26mh/s, according to the status, I don’t know why it’s higher comparing with qtminer at ethpool.org. However the payment is almost the same, except it’s twice a day 🙂

Conclusion, I don’t think it’s matter, maybe ethpool.org might pay a little bit higher but took 5 days, while eth.nanopool.org pay twice a day and probably a little bit less, I don’t know. It doesn’t matter which, both pool can be trusted, but one thing is ethpool.org got a lot less people mining on it. eth.nanopool.org appears to have about 40-50% of the whole ethereum mining network.