Search results for: "hack"

  • Hardware hacks — do you do it?

    You go out, you buy some tech, and it works. Excel­lent. But haven’t you ever wanted it to do more? For example, your in-home WiFi is kinda weak — router is OK, but you’ve needed more range out of it to reach the oth­er end of your house. That’s a hack, wait­ing to hap­pen. There’s…

  • Nifty Hack: How to circumvent a firewall with Twitter, Jaiku, Twitku using Netvibes

    Need to ‘fol­low’ your friends on Twit­ter or Jaiku, but are fire­walled? Then here’s a quick solu­tion that is work­ing for me: Set up a NetVibes account. Cre­ate a new page, setup as three column. Add the Bitty Browser mod­ule. Point that browser at the TwitKu mobile page ( http://twitku.com/m ). Sign into your Twit­ter and…

  • Don’t want to install employer’s Multi-Function Authentication app on your phone? Five reasons to support your position.

    In case you are looking for a few reasons beyond 'I just don't want to', which is fine, and a valid reason on its own. Here's more.

  • Vintage Computing: Saving data to an audio device

    Back when the early days of personal computing, you did your work on your computer and either printed out the finished work, or stored it to work on later. Early on, cassette tapes were the storage medium of choice as they cassette tape recorders were commonly available, and reasonably affordable. Some computer system did have…

  • NEC PC-8201a Adventures — Part One: It’s here, now what?

    NEC PC-8201a Adventures — Part One: It’s here, now what?

    Back in the early-to-mid ’80s, per­son­al com­put­ing was find­ing it’s way. Desktop com­puters were becom­ing more vis­ible in smal­ler busi­nesses, but the work of com­put­ing still had to be done at the work­place. Port­able com­puters were really just shrunken down desktops — they were called lug­gables at the time. Then came the revolu­tion, as they say. …

  • iOS 7 Launch — A busy day today

    iOS 7 will be released later today, and I’m look­ing for­ward to it! Update: But first, a pub­lic ser­vice announce­ment. Don’t for­get to BACKUP YOUR DATA (thanks for the remind­er Ryan!) Here’s a great how-to from Apple’s sup­port site. From what I’ve seen, this update of the ven­er­able iOS oper­at­ing sys­tem will be the best yet, not…

  • Raining. May as well set up an OSX VM 🙂

    With some Hack­er-Pschorr, of course 🙂 via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/eTag97

  • Speed up your Internet experience by using the right DNS server

    Last week I saw this Life­Hack­er art­icle (via AppleIn­sider) about NameBench, a win­dow util­ity that tests the speed of your sys­tem’s DNS serv­ers. And I was won­der­ing if my DNS was as fast as it could be… Pre­vi­ously, I’d switched my DNS ser­vices over to OpenDNS, a free altern­ate DNS Pro­vider that adds value as: Ultra-reli­able, glob­ally-dis­trib­uted…

  • Commerce in a post-Wikileaks economy

    You’ve likely seen the news that Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are under distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks by folk who feel that WikiLeaks headman Julian Assange is being persecuted for distributing sensitive information he...

  • This is the week that was

    Kin­ect made it out the door, was imme­di­ately torn down, hacked and, as we find out, almost prop­erty of Apple! Speak­ing of which, this week was a week when the Apple lost a bit of it’s shine… …more This post of is one of many I pub­lish weekly at the Future Shop Techb­log. Read more of…

  • Saving time with Text Replacement utilities

    I write a lot. Blog posts, pro­pos­als, reports, reviews, email…you get the pic­ture. Often times I end up cre­at­ing new doc­u­ments that share sim­il­ar format or con­tent, and I cut-and-paste from older docs into new­er ones. But I’m lazy, and always look­ing for easi­er ways to get the job done… I’m Lazy Over the past year…

  • This is the week that was

    Last week was busy, this week less so. Yet there still was news, includ­ing a severe Face­book out­age and a Twit­ter hack… …more This post of is one of many I pub­lish weekly at the Future Shop Techb­log. Read more of my stuff here.