Month: December 2015

Relocating my blog!

After having a nice amount of success on my YouTube channel and seeing the advertising money roll in, I decided I wanted to check on how my blog was doing. Turns out, it was doing pretty well! Not quite as well as my channel, but well enough that I figure, it’s probably time to monetize it. Unfortunately, my previous blog host WordPress doesn’t allow free bloggers the ability to setup ads. While I do love the WordPress interface, that’s a minor consideration compared to other things.

So, with all of that said, I am in the process of moving my blog over from WordPress to Blogger. I actually used to use Blogger as my primary blogging platform, but for some reason stopped. (I can’t remember why.) The import/export features of WordPress and Blogger don’t appear compatible, so I have to do this by hand. Thankfully, I only have 15 posts over on WordPress, so it shouldn’t take too long.

The benefits of moving back to Blogger are more than just the advertising potential. Blogger also integrates well into Google Analytics and YouTube. This helps standardize the tracking and integrations for my content.

Android Wear Re-pairing

So I just had to go through the process of re-pairing my Huawei Watch the other day when I replaced my HTC One M8 with the Samsung Galaxy S6. While this certainly isn’t something you’d likely do often, it will probably happen to most people at least a few times during the life of the watch itself. The process was a bit unintuitive, and resulted in a complete reset of the watch.
For those who are looking for “how” to do it, you need to go into your Android Wear watch’s settings, and do a Factory Reset. This will reset the device completely, unpairing it from your previous phone, deleting settings and preferences, all your apps, etc. Then follow the instructions for pairing your watch like you did the very first time. (This is remarkably easy with the Huawei Watch, so kudos to Android/Huawei for that.)
Now part of this makes some sense, because the watch itself is really just an extension of your phone. But it’s also really annoying, because now, not only do you have to set up your new phone to be the way you want, but you have to re-download the Android Wear companion app, the watch faces you wanted, and start customizing and setting everything back up again for the watch, too. Double the work.
I hope that in time, this is something they can find little improvements for. If a watch can pair with a new phone and somehow “sync” and “update” without having to reset everything, that would be awesome.
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If you missed my vlog posts regarding the Huawei Watch, check them out on YouTube: