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Video: Three or Four Minutes to Using Windows 8 29 Oct 2012 | 02:17 am
Have you seen Windows 8 yet? It's pretty interesting and completely new. It's also quite different. My friend Scott Hanselman made a quick video showing you in less than 4 minutes how to get started u...
Six years after artificial disc replacement surgery – Status update 27 Oct 2012 | 01:46 am
In early 2006, after years of progressively worsening chronic pain due to a damaged lower back, I had surgery to remove the lumbar disc at the L5/S1 level of my lower spine. The failed disc was replac...
LinkedIn, passwords, hashing, and re-using credentials 7 Jun 2012 | 08:18 am
A topic I always enjoy... I post this with the hope that you’ll be able to take something from it as a message to carry to others. You may have heard that apparently the LinkedIn password list consis...
Google Apps for Business gets telephone support 15 Nov 2011 | 09:15 am
All I can say is thank goodness, finally… Google has announced phone-based support for its Google Apps for Business customers. Not that I need to ask for help too often (although I’ve wanted to a coup...
Micro vortex generators on my Piper Cherokee Warrior -- The results are in! 25 Oct 2011 | 01:44 pm
A few weeks ago a friend and I installed a kit full of micro vortex generators (VG’s) on the wings and tail section of my airplane, a 1975 Piper Cherokee Warrior PA28-151, N639MR. As I described in so...
Use your Sprint iPhone 4 native Phone and Message/SMS apps integrated directly with Google Voice 19 Oct 2011 | 07:40 pm
What if I told you that you could now have Google voice working with an iPhone’s native phone and messaging apps -- much like you can with Android -- and that you don’t have to jailbreak or install th...
Funny stuff Siri Says: Siri coming to the new iPhone. Darn You Siri! 14 Oct 2011 | 02:19 pm
Siri is coming to the iPhone 4S on Friday, and already people are starting to discover the Apple virtual assistant has a but of a sense of humor. To chronicle and record for humorous posterity all th...
Are you the family IT guy? Use Chrome to remotely control your mom's computer 9 Oct 2011 | 04:27 am
Google has released a Chrome Browser add-on called Chrome Remote Desktop Beta that allows two computers running Chrome to be connected to so person can control the other person's computer. For those o...
iPhone 4S models selling out in pre-order land 8 Oct 2011 | 07:07 pm
Looks like Apple already sold out of its pre-order inventory of iPhone 4S phones on the first day you could pre-order one, and looking at Sprint's web site right now, they've sold all of their 16GB pr...
Upgrade to iPhone 4S on Sprint before upgrade eligibility without paying full price 8 Oct 2011 | 11:45 am
Can I cancel my current Sprint account/plan and get a new iPhone 4S? There's this new iPhone coming out - the iPhone 4S. Maybe you heard about it? Pretty nice device, really. I had iPhones exclusivel...
