Top Unique Geek Gifts
Well, Christmas is right around the corner and it’s time for my top tech gift picks. I’m sure others will have their own. I tried to find some really unique geek gifts. The geek in your life will love you for it. No, I’m going to skip right over iPod, Playstation, Xbox360, etc. You can [...]
USB Missile Launcher Monday Friend
Yeah, it’s 8 AM on a Monday morning. You just had a really nice weekend. You watched a ton of football, you ate 53 lbs. of food, and you didn’t bath. But Monday came and you had to shave. You had to put on some, uck, nice clothes. And you had to come in and [...]
Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium
This past weekend took me to a family member’s house that is located far into the country. Around 11pm I went outside to grab a drink from the cooler. I happened to look up at the sky and was amazed. It was a super clear sky and I could see what seemed like millions of [...]
Hauppauge WinTV HVR 950 Stick
Last year I built a PVR from scratch. It was a very fun project. The result was a fully functional computer available to the TV. It had integrated 5.1 sound, wireless internet, PVR (Tivo – if you don’t know what PVR is!), wirless mouse and keyboard, etc. I built it for a friend and I [...]
Wireless Electricity
Many homes carry much more electrical devices than even five years ago. The rolling brownouts of recent years attributes to the massive use of electricity in this country. But not much has changed in the electrical field, in terms of home use, in the last fifty to one hundred years. But Marin Solijacic, assistant professor [...]
Printer PCL XL Error
One of my clients had recently bought a new Lexmark printer. She was going through all the boxes, manuals, disks, etc. So, she thought she would hook it up. She unhooked her current HP Laserjet 4050 printer and started to hook up the new Lexmark. Then she changed her mind. She put the Lexmark back, [...]
Virtual Air Guitar Shirt
CSIRO is probably getting a hailstorm of traffic already, but I just had to post.
Mac OS X Shortcuts
Startup Keystroke Description Press X during startup Force Mac OS X startup Press Option-Command-Shift-Delete during startup Bypass primary startup volume and seek a different startup volume (such as a CD or external disk) Press C during startup Start up from a CD that has a system folder Press N during startup Attempt to start [...]
GFI EndPointSecurity Review
I was walking the other day, thinking about organizational security. There are all kinds of products out there to help you harden your perimeter. But there is one area that scares the daylights out of corporate security professionals – portable storage media. It wasn’t that long ago when 1.44 MB floppy drives ruled the day. [...]
Limewire File Sharing RIAA Countersuit Shows New Peer to Peer Landscape
The last few months have seen some really interesting moves in the whole peer to peer culture. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has been slowly tightening its grip on how people can share music. The massive python has squeezed peer to peer networks and their members since the beginning.
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