My recent post about a high speed photo scanner showed some good information for those people looking to scan mountains of photos quickly. I wanted to find a cheaper alternative that people could use for a smaller project (perhaps 1000-2000 photos). The solution needed to be a little easier to use than the Kodak I [...]
To change things up from my regular posts, I decided to write instructions on how to make a simple catapult. I’m a Den Leader for my local Webelos cub scouts group and we are working on the engineering activity badge. One of the requirements of the activity badge is to built a catapult. This catapult [...]
My mom loves to take pictures. She always had a camera with her to make sure that every moment of our childhood was captured. As a result we have tubs and tubs full of pictures hiding in a closet. My goal was to get all these pictures digitized and backed up. Sending them to a [...]
With the latest drop in price for Hulu Plus this month, I’m wondering if these online streaming services are getting to be the last straw for consumers to drop their cable subscription and use Internet streaming. So why hasn’t it already won the hearts of consumers? Here’s a few reasons: Bundles – Most cable companies [...]
A long time ago, I got a Yahoo! mail account long before the wonderful Gmail was available. All my friends had Yahoo accounts and we all slowly migrated to using Gmail or other services. I kept the account active to use for Yahoo services, but recently it was hacked since I used a fairly basic [...]
I found myself needing to upgrade my MacBook Pro. So I went out and bought a WD 500gb Elements drive (External p/n:WDBAAR5000ABK-NESN Internal p/n:WD5000BEVT) to quickly swap out my old drive and get some needed space. Before actually performing the upgrade though, I cloned it using Carbon Copy Cloner and when that was finished, removed [...]
At work, I came upon a CP3505 LaserJet printer that was displaying this error message: RFU LOAD ERROR DOWNLOAD FILE NOW SEND RFU UPGRADE Naturally, I wondered why a perfectly good printer would get to this state. I power cycled the printer which revealed the true error: INFLATE FAILURE DOWNLOAD FILE NOW SEND RFU UPGRADE [...]
AITP Conference 2009
Apr 6
Our team from BYU recently attended the AITP National Conference held in downtown Oklahoma City, OK at the Cox Convention Center. We competed in Java, database, application development, business intelligence, office solutions, and systems design. Here are some highlights of our trip: For more pictures, check out the official flickr album.
A question I am often asked is how to remove and organize a Macintosh desktop by removing icons. With today’s pictures, videos, documents, and other forms of media available today, desktops can become increasingly cluttered and unorganized. Spotlight has really helped those messy individuals avoid straightening out their workspace, but having a better orgainized desktop [...]
I had an unusual problem with an HP LaserJet 3050 AIO that left me stumped. I received a 3050 back from a customer because it never worked. They mentioned that it would turn on, but they kept getting an unclearable message on the control panel. The error the customer was receiving was “No Paper Pickup”. [...]