I am eagerly awaiting my copy of Fusion 3….. I have used both Parallels and Fusion both… And while I prefer Parallels slightly, Parallels (for some reason), will not access my Boot Camp drive, without requiring me to constantly reconfigure the virtual machine…. So I switched to Fusion, and I’m pretty darn happy… Here’s to […]
My Samsung hard drive is making some weird noises. Sometimes, the noise stops but then starts again within a few minutes. It’s warranty is out of date, so I am worried that the noise may indicate an imminent failure. First,….. Backup your data. Now. Please, Back it up… Back up your data if you even […]
Though the recent iPhone 3.1 update added support for protecting against phishing sites, there were concerns that it didn’t catch any. But, as it turns out, that’s mainly because activating the feature requires a few more steps that most users didn’t know about. The Anti-phishing database is initially downloaded only when three conditions are met: […]
A Mugging on Lake Street A veteran investigative reporter looks into his own beating and finds himself confronting harsh and lingering questions of race BY JOHN CONROY ‘In my next conscious moment, I was dimly aware that I was facedown on the pavement. There was blood in my mouth.’ I was ambushed on the […]
Let’s all go back and do the Time Warp…. While cleaning out my email store, I found and recalled this article by David Pogue… A Home That Heats and Cools Itself Which discusses eco-friendly, and very literally green housing with relatively high tech designed log homes…. The grand prize ($25,000) went to something called the […]
Folks, There’s a MOSX command line tool, that many people are unaware of called “file”. Â This application will give you information about what architectures applications will run on, and if it’s not an application, it will attempt to identify what the file is. For example: dhcp105-53:~ Ben$ file test.pdf test.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3 dhcp105-53:~ […]
Created with the same MediaWiki software that was developed for the Wikipedia project, AllPinouts.org is a wiki that allows users to get and share information about hardware interfaces, including pinouts of ports, expansion slots, and other connectors of computers and different electronic devices (i.e. cellular phones, GPS, PDA, game consoles, etc.). All text is available […]
Folks, Here’s a new version of the Devices that are On! software, I have eliminated X10 Remote buttons, RemoteLincs, and Controlinc’s from the listing…. That should cut down on the number of “Unknowns” that were previously being listed… [download id=”7633″]