Tech

Owning a home can be  quite a great investment, but when things start to go wrong, it can be a nightmare, sometimes.  If  your problems are easy enough to fix then learning how to identify the problem and fix them  is not only self rewarding, but saves money too.
 
 Just the other day I noticed there was water coming [...]

I’ve got several e-mails from friends, family, and people who read my blogs asking how to change time and date on the menu bar. It’s fairly simple to do, and you don’t need to install a whole other piece of software to see today’s date in your menubar, you can add it manually in System [...]

I was reading my Twitter stream yesterday, and found a great link from FactoryJoe aka Chris Messina. He posted a great tutorial for putting your mac or display to sleep with a simple key command. After reading the tutorial over at Leopard Tricks.com  , I kept reading the website to find even more great tutorials like this one, which is doing simple commands in terminal to [...]

Recently, I  joined  the latest Web 2.0 service out on the web now called Brightkite. It’s not your normal Web 2.0 social website like Myspace or Facebook. It’s a website that allows you not only to add, message  or talk to friends, but see where they are at too and even find out who’s at the location you’re at too.Brightkite allows you to check in [...]

I’ve been having a time with computers lately. My PC died on my in Oct of last year, which was a blessing, since I had wanted to switch to my Mac fully and never had the time to fully switch. Now it’s my ibook that is having problems, which I think it’s the hard drive that [...]

AOL finally decided to start using a XMPP, which Google Talk has been using for a while now. ICQ and AIM services are now compatible with XMPP, but still in the beta stages. Check out the wiki page to learn more about this new and exciting announcement.

Depending on how far back you’ve been on the Internet, it’s pretty likely that you used to use Netscape Navigator to browser the web. AOL has announced that they are killing off Navigator development. There will be some support for the browser till January, but it’s recommended that you switch to Firefox [...]

It’s one of the most popular and controversial file types in the world, but most explanations of its workings are either blindingly simplistic or overwhelmingly technical. Learn about the workings of MP3 without a second Ph.D. in this guide.
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Be fashionable and informative with this t-shirt that “displays the current wi-fi signal strength to yourself and everyone around you.”
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[tags] modems, networking, routers, t-shirts, teeshirts, wearables, wifi, wireless-interent, wirless-signal[/tags]

As most know I’m a Web developer/ graphic designer that uses a Mac and PC to design on. Hopefully one day I can finally fully switch to a Mac and leave the PC in the dust, but the PC will have to do for now…. Anyhow, A couple of months ago I decided to take [...]