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In case you weren’t aware of the exciting news, Wolfram Alpha just launched this evening. While quasi-geeks are typing up there comparisons of Alpha vs. Google (apple vs orange), I thought I would ask this new computational engine the most important question of all: What is the meaning of life? I was pleased with the [...]
A solution for making a functional VPN tunnel between pfSense and SmoothWall.
iStat for iPhone is a great application that gives you remote monitoring of essential Mac workstations or servers.
Handbrake is a wonderful, open-source, utility for converting DVD movies to other formats. In my case, I use it to convert my DVD collection for use on my Apple TV. It works great. Today, a new version (0.93) was released. It includes a long list of improvements from GUI updates to fixes for the lingering [...]
Well, maybe I should have titled this “Cleaning Your Laptop”, but this works on other things, including my iPhone. I have many people ask me how to best clean their laptops, desktops, and other computer electronics. As you may know, there are many solutions sold at most gadget stores. Usually, these solutions are for cleaning [...]
It is no secret that Microsoft is struggling a bit to keep up with the competition. With the latest news coming out that they are even further behind on their release cycle for Windows 7, things are looking slightly bleak. In a mobile PDA market that they once controlled, it seems that more competing solutions [...]
Android – the Google “Open Source” answer to smart phone software, doesn’t seem like it is really ready for primetime. I was surprised this week when T-Mobile and Google announced the new G1 phone and Android software. It was an event full of “It will probably” or “we imagine someone will…” promises to support how [...]
When I bought my first iPhone, and read the many reviews online, there was the occasional murmur from geeks wishing for a tethering solution for their iPhone. Tethering is the process of linking your phone to your computer, and using the phones data connection on your laptop. While i thought it would be kind [...]
Laptops are are a wonderful thing. They give us freedom from being tied to a desk, and nowadays they give us nearly the power of a desktop machine. While these technical wonders are great tools to have, they do come with a downside, and I don’t mean short battery life. The downside is, it’s a [...]
(source) Like most iPhone owners this weekend, I was having a blast with the new 2.0 software. Also as a .Mac user, I have watched the painful Mobile Me transition unfold (well, it still is). While waiting for the Mobile Me rollercoaster to stop, I spent a lot of time experimenting with or reading about [...]
