That’s right my fateful brethren, it’s March 15th, the Ides of March. I’ve successfully avoided this fated day by sleeping most of the way through it. I woke up today (the final time) around 2pm. I got up and got some microwavable breakfast and then tooled away at the computer the rest of the day.…
How to Hack the LaCIE Ethernet 1TB NAS (Rack-Mount Version)
I’ve recently had access to a LaCIE Ethernet 1TB (terabyte) NAS (network attached storage) server similar to the one we use at our work place. These things are great because you don’t have to hook them up to a computer (they’re really just small computer servers with huge hard drives). Also, you can make user…
Win a Flip Ultra from AnyLuckyDay.com
Website AnyLuckyDay.com has a great contest from the folks at Flip – the easy to use personal camcorder now being used by tons of bloggers and vloggers across the internet. It shoots 60 minutes of video and has 2gb of storage space built-in. You can easily use this nifty camcorder to upload videos to your…
Apple to Release Snow Leopard in the Wild June 8th?
There’s a snarky rumor going around that Apple may be dropping the newest release of Mac OS X operating system, codenamed “Snow Leopard” OS X 10.6 – on June 8th. This is all according to leaked release notes at World of Apple. The new version will likely include a new Finder app, Safari 4 Beta,…
SocialSpark Stimulates Economy
As many of you know, I sometimes write and do advertising on my blog for a company called IZEA. Those of you not familiar, IZEA is a social marketing solutions company. In hard times, businesses are failing, advertising budgets are shrinking, and as a result, less people hear about your business. It’s not that people…
Bleeding Edge Technology: Vista SP2 RC Released
Today Microsoft announced that the release candidate (RC) for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is now released to the general public for beta testing. How can that be a bad thing? It works for OSS projects like Firefox and various Linux distros. Just anyone can go and download these might-as-well-be-final versions of their product and…
The Raging Tech and Google
Tonight as I sit at my computer and sip this glass of (previously cork-tainted, but now recovered) Biltmore Estates Pinot Noir, I was thinking about the long, rocky relationship I’ve had with Google as a blogger. I won’t get into the whole “no-follow is stupid” debate here (even if it is), but over the years…
Take a Screenshot with Your iPhone
Today I was over at Ted Murphy‘s (@tedmurphy) blog and I saw he had an interesting tip for iPhone users. He had posted a screenshot of a program on his iPhone and immediately got lots of comments asking him how to do it. “To take a screenshot with an iPhone simply press the sleep and…
Make More than One Set of HP Recovery CDs or DVDs
If you’ve bought an HP (Hewlett-Packard) laptop in the last few years, you’ve got a nifty tool on your side called the PC Recovery Disc Creator. The only bugger is, the program will only create one set of recovery discs, ever. If you check the HP FAQ, the reason for this is due to licensing…
Same Browser Wars, Different Day
In the European Union, Opera is in the process of bringing a suit against Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with its operating system. Microsoft is slated to include Internet Explorer 8 in its latest operating system, Windows 7. Recently, Mozilla foundation threw its hat in the ring with Opera to go up against Microsoft, and…