I was traveling down a canyon road last summer with my tent trailer in tow. We had to come to an abrupt stop on a downhill and the front brakes on my van started smoking (yikes!). With a full car with gear and family members, I was a more than nervous that our van would … Read more
I’m running a Netgear router with DDWRT installed and a NAS behind it. The Synology NAS runs a nice service called Cloud Station. It’s basically a private dropbox service. I’d like to restrict access to Cloud Station to a handful of hosts. Each family member has an IP, but they are all dynamic and can change. … Read more
UPDATE: In the next major update (4.3), Synology will be supporting HSF+ natively. If you really need this functionality, I highly recommend downloading the 4.3 beta. ———————————- I recently purchased a Synology DS213Air NAS to backup all my files. Since I use a Mac at home, there were several HFS+ volumes that I needed to … Read more
[amazon template=iframe image&asin=B0035WTCU4] 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
UPDATE: I’ve changed my recommendation as to what the best high speed photo scanner is. 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
[amazon template=iframe image&asin=B002CZQ4GU]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 … Read more
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.
I seem to be purchasing small gadgets lately and this month has been no exception. For work, I needed to put together a series of useful video presentations/screencasts for my fellow co-workers. After looking around on the Internet for a good set of headphones, I found the Plantronics brand and decided to give them a … Read more