My father passed away recently and it has made me think about many things. Among the many topics you might imagine, one very practical area of concern, but perhaps not so critical is wondering what happens to our online presence? Everything from email accounts to social sites can become troublesome for loved ones to deal […]
Create your own cloud storage service that you control with a service called ownCloud. With it, you’ll get syncing files, notes, calendars, and more. The best part: it only takes about five minutes to get it set up. OwnCloud is free and open source software that operates as a very simple way to set up […]
Thank you Lifehacker.com for this one. You wont need to download anything here. Just type the following into Terminal, and the game will launch automatically. emacs -batch -l dunnet If youve never played a MUD before, you’ll find that its actually pretty intuitive. For example, you start the game standing on a road with a […]
I find myself occasionally needing a quick reminder on this from time to time as friends of mine wish to add this feature to their person web sites. A handy guide can be found on Gigaom.com. How to create iOS device home screen icons for websites — Apple News, Tips and Reviews.
Very cool tool to compare computer hardware before making a purchase. I’m currently using it to rank video cards for a potential holiday purchase. AnandTech – Bench – CPU.
An open source Wi-Fi scanner. A great tool for analyzing signal strength and improving your throughput and connectivity. inSSIDer – Discover The Wi-Fi Around You | MetaGeek.
I’m always looking for ways to simplify things I do on a computer. I also really like the idea of consolidating information to be more productive. This article from Lifehacker caught my attention as a way to present information on your desktop and reduce the time it would take to go get it (manually). Similar […]
Duplicati is a free backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers. It works with Amazon S3, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Drive (Google Docs), Rackspace Cloud Files or WebDAV, SSH, FTP (and many more). Duplicati is unique in that it will encrypt your data prior to uploading […]
Some resources I’ve discovered lately for developing mobile sites and apps. Apps: Android Developer Kit: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html iOS developer guide: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#referencelibrary/GettingStarted/RoadMapiOS/Introduction/Introduction.html iOS iAd producer: https://developer.apple.com/iad/iadproducer/ Kooaba image recognition technology platform: http://www.kooaba.com/en/business/techplatform Web: jQuery Mobile: http://jquerymobile.com/ Mobile Image Gallery Web App: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/05/27/awesome-mobile-image-gallery-web-app/ Sencha Touch: http://www.sencha.com/products/touch WordPress Themes: http://slodive.com/freebies/free-wordpress-themes-for-2011/
Recently, I have been helping a friend with his new website using WordPress. We initially set up the site under one of his existing domains prior to purchasing a dedicated domain name for the site we were developing. He actually posted a lot of content prior to getting the new domain so when it came […]