Access your home computer from anywhere in the world! If you’ve ever wanted to control your home computer from the road, viewing or sharing files, or looking up a piece of key data, it’s easy and free, thanks to Hamachi2 and Pro2, from LogMeIn. Hamachi2 and Pro2 are free desktop apps which enable you to [...]
Yikes. What a spring! It’s been cold, cloudy, and windy in The Middle of Nowhere for the last couple of months, but it finally seems to getting downright summer-like. Of course, I really shouldn’t complain; when I look at Joplin, and other areas which have been devastated by horrific storms, I realize just how lucky [...]
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I’ve hesitated posting about this topic for weeks, as I’m more than a bit ambivalent about showing readers how to bypass the NYT’s new paywall. I really enjoy The New York Times, and would hate to see it fail, so I encourage you to support the paper, particularly if you are a frequent online reader. [...]
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Regular readers know that I’ve been back in the market for another messenger-style bag. Several days ago I noticed that no matter what website I went to, I’d see ads for Timbuk2. Hey, I love the company and all, but I really don’t care for the Big Brother aspect of ads that are the direct [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I posted about my switch to the Chrome browser, extolling its features and speed versus Firefox. Well, of course, Mozilla released Firefox 4.0 a few days ago, and at first blush it seems very, well, Chrome-like. Tabs are at the top, if one crashes the entire browser doesn’t crash, you [...]
Your faithful correspondent is once again proven to be an idiot I guess there’s something to be said for consistency. On Wednesday I discovered that this site’s RSS feed wasn’t working, and I now suspect that’s been the case for at least a couple of weeks. The “consistency” part? This isn’t the first time this [...]
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At times, necessity is indeed the mother of invention, or in this case, substitution. I ran into an issue with Firefox a couple of weeks ago whereby it refused to launch. I’ll spare you the laundry list of things I did to remedy the situation; the important thing is the fact that while I was [...]
