I’m a geek at heart and love “tweaking” my home entertainment system. My family will tell you that I make changes even though there is nothing “wrong” with the existing setup and, to be honest, they would be absolutely right. That said, I am driven to change and am all too happy to oblige. One …
I seem to change my home file server platform like most people change their socks. My most recent change was from Windows Server 2008 to a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard. Since most of the computers in our house are now Macs, it seemed like a logical next step to migrate our server back-end to …
I have been wanting to set up a home automation system for some time now and have finally taken my first steps. Do a bit of investigation on this subject, and you will quickly be overwhelmed with options. The grand daddy of these systems is a power-line based system called X10. Unfortunately, X10 has always …
If you’re a hostmoster or bluehost customer this might come in handy. I created a domain for my son, we’ll call it 123mydomain.com, and then setup an email account for him. Being the teenager that he is, his mom and I wanted to have a little bit of control and therefore did not want him …
We’ve all heard the stories about people buying computers off of eBay or Craigslist and then being able to recover personal information from the disks on those computers. Before I delve into why this is possible, let me point out that the vast majority of computers out there are running on Windows. According to NetApplications, …
If you’ve ever played with a webcam then you know they’re pretty cool little toys. Most people think of them as a device that they can use with their favorite IM tool to have a video conference but times have changed and these little guys can do much more than they used to. Years ago …
My family has had the pesky “keep our contact list in sync” issue for ages. If we used one PC, I don’t think it would be such a big deal but we have a family PC, my wife’s laptop, my Windows laptop, my Linux laptop, my work PC and the list goes on. Until now …
Raise your hand if you have at least one iPod or other MP3 player? Two? Three? More? I don’t know how this happens but it seems to happen a lot. Perhaps it’s our desire to have the latest and greatest, or maybe everyone in the family needs their own device, but somehow we end up …
If I asked how many of you are the regular recipients of junk e-mail (SPAM), I'm guessing I would receive a 100% unanimous response in the affirmative. Unfortunately, SPAM is a problem that is unlikely to go away. Even if legislative action is taken, don't expect it to have any real impact upon the problem. …
I’ve had a lot of questions since posting Don’t Loose Your Data about how one goes about backing-up ones personal data. Fortunately the answer is quite simple. The first step is to ensure you have something to backup your data to, such as a second hard disk, CD / DVD, or tape. If you don’t, …
