Search results for: "hack"
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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. …
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Raining. May as well set up an OSX VM 🙂
With some Hacker-Pschorr, of course 🙂 via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/eTag97
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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.