So I decided to jailbreak my iphone again. This time I was taking a trip out west SteamBoat and wanted the ability to tether my phone and get internet access. I had previously purchased an iPhone app (iphonemodem) and had success. However, this time I decided to try a new app for tethering. Mywi (http://www.rockyourphone.com/index.php/mywi.html). What an amazing app. I was …
It is amazing the number of netbooks and small form factor laptops that were showcased at CES. I am a full supporter of Laptops. I have gone through the process of eliminating as many PC’s in our house as possible and replacing with Laptops. My current need is to replace my wife’s laptop, in this purchase process I have been looking …
Was checking twitter and one of the people I follow had a link to a sweet laptop bag. I followed the site to see some laptop bag goodness. They make some sweet bags – http://www.booqbags.com/
I’ve been testing mailbrowser (MailBrowser.com) It is a gmail (browser plugin) that allows you to search / file / lookup contacts based on interaction. Similar to Xobni for outlook. I have used Xobni for outlook before and had performance issues. I will update on the usage of this new little plugin
I have recently started to listen to more podcasts. When training for the Chicago Marathon back in 05 I listened to a lot of podcasts. Here are some that I subscribe to 5 live world football Hak5.org Tekzilla Dave Ramsey What else is interesting that I should be listening to?
I am very lucky to purchase computers. I have a macbook, netbook, toshiba laptop (wife), and my trusty T61 thinkpad. I have realized that I use each device for a specific task. Excluding my wife’s laptop I have found that the macbook and netbook are interchangeable. The small form factor MacBook makes it as handy as the netbook. Because of this …
I have a lot of storage at my house. I have over 3 terabytes worth of storage available to me. The problem is not space, it’s files. I have files everywhere. The best example I can use is pictures. I’ve got pictures on my computer, my wife has pictures on her computer. The files are synced and stored on the backup …
I always seem to have some type of software that I need to install on my machines. This is normally due to re-installing or getting new machines. There is a great site that helps you add all your favorite programs in one install (allmyapps) basically makes a custom installer. You just need to head to their site. Select all your favorite …
There is a sysinternals tool that allows you to take your computer and make a vhd (virtual hard drive) from your system. This is just fantastic. I can’t wait to find a reason to use this. I can see the reasons where you can want to make a backup or even move an old system for storage. Imagine if an employee …
I finally did it. I now own a MAC. I recently purchased a new to me MacBook. I won’t bore everyone with the specs, but it has 2 gig of ram and the Intel Duo processor. I want to create an Iphone app and realized that you really do need a mac to do development. So far (I’ve had it for …
If you are like me you use your camera on your iphone. I have to admit it is not the best camera, but I always have it on me. So I have found over the last year that I have taken a lot of photos. I wanted to re-stage my iphone and realized that I needed to backup these photos or …
Since my hard drive was failing on my laptop I purchased a new drive. To migrate from the failing drive to a new drive was very easy with Macrium Reflecthttp://www.macrium.com/. This is not an ad for them, but the software works great. You just run the image creation while in Windows, save the image to a USB drive or the network. …
My laptop hard drive decided to start acting up yesterday. Before it formally crashed (I’m not counting the 6 times where it just clicked and stopped working) I decided to make an image of it. After I validated the image I went out and purchased a new internal SATA laptop drive. My new WD Black series is 350GIG, 7200RPM. It’s amazing …
I am a huge fan of Mozy (Mozy.com). They offer free and paid backup solutions online. I use their services on every computer I have. Recently they announced that they have over 15 petabytes worth of data. What is a petabyte you say? Well, it is a lot of data. Mozy has a fantastic article describing how much data that is. …
I am always amazed how sites can launch and draw traffic. Then add a feature that just takes off. The facebook chat feature that lets you have an IM / Chat session with another facebook friend has over 1 billion messages a day. 1 billion is a huge number. In recent months we all have become immune to million / billion …