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How to Connect a GM Vehicle to the Internet

Oct 21 2015

General Motors, and especially Chevy, is at the forefront of bringing 4G LTE internet into dashboards (learn more in this column.)

While other automakers are starting to offer this feature, most put the WiFi settings within the infotainment system’s Settings area.

Chevy’s way to connect is a bit different.

Use OnStar to access the WiFi settings.

On rearview mirror > press OnStar button > say “WiFi Settings” > settings appear on dash screen >
follow instructions

Here’s the OnStar site

Found in a 2016 Chevy Trax.

Security Reminder:

Connecting a car comes with a responsibility – never connect your car to public WiFi, and you are legally responsible for passengers Hotspotting off your car’s connection.

A Cracked Phone Screen = a Basement Apartment

Oct 21 2015

Remember when I cracked my cell screen weeks ago?

The cracks are tough to photograph, but the one bottom left was so deep I slit my thumb open, and the glass was so crumbled around the home button I must’ve eaten a ton of glass.

In the 17 years I’ve had a cell, this was the 1st time I broke my screen, meaning, I finally experienced what I’ve watched for years – pull out a busted phone, and use it.

And no. Just nope no and no.

It negatively affected my mind – the thing I touch and use more than anything, all sub-par and broken.

It’s like going home at the end of a day and descending into a sub-terrainian apartment… to a dark space, with tiny windows, at the top of a low ceiling, and settling into the sounds of someone walking on your head all night.

These little things – dark, broken, negative, beneath – greatly pull down a mind, making it more difficult to maintain a positive and expanding imagination.

I get that sometimes things are tight and it’s tough to afford to move or fix the screen immediately, I don’t get letting the situation continue for an extended period of time. Time is our only renewable resource.

It’s like a car – if it’s not affordable to insure and maintain, it’s probably out of the budget in the first place.

If You Need a Not-in-Service Phone Number…

Oct 21 2015

… for whatever reason, here’s 2 that called me last week.

It was Such a Good Car Week

Oct 20 2015

5 different cars, over 7 days, totalling $370,000 plus 1 race car = come ON

Kicked it off with a 2016 Cadillac Escalade equipped with every feature on the planet, the seats even massaged me.

Then if you see a 2016 GMC Canyon pickup truck in MotoringTV’s new opening, that was me driving it.

Thursday I helped break in a 2016 Porsche GT4 at Mosport… really.

And Friday I learned to drive a Pro Challenge car, which is like a mini NASCAR.

Finally, on Sunday I picked up a car for a friend, the 2016 Jaguar F-TYPE which is now available in _maual_.

Been waiting 1.5 years to shift this, and it was as fun as it’s been in my imagination. Only got to drive it 100 km, but if it isn’t snowing by the 3rd week in November I get it for a whole week.

Now to even it all out, I’m on a bus headed downtown.

It’s the annual SecTor security conference, and same thing I tell you every year – if you want a job with a 100% employment rate, go into information security.

I’ll be there all day so TTYT

Modifying my Brainwave Frequencies

Oct 16 2015

Been doing this for years.

How it works: It uses EEG technoogy – Electroencephalography. Using headphones and an app on my phone, I pump 4 types of waves into my ears, which alter my brain frequency toward a desired state – to enhance its alertness, or relax it.

Is your eyebrow raised in skepticism? Not for long…