Google came out with an awesome enhancement to their Google Maps tool a couple days ago called StreetView. It’s remarkable because they’ve taken 360 degree views from their van about every 20 feet in the areas they cover(SF, Denver, New York City, Miami, and Vegas). The resolution of the images in San Francisco is better […]
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If you’re a spreadsheet junky like me, you’ve learned all kinds of things to do in a spreadsheet. From using $’s in autofills to cross-workbook cell references to pivot tables. There’s lots of fun to be had. I’ve been using Excel and OpenOffice Spreadsheet for years and was pleasantly surprised to find this function the […]
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The OpenGL-based window manager Beryl has some great features like cool window movement effects, transparency, and reflections. The most notable effect has got to be the Desktop Cube which allows you to switch between one or more desktops by rotating a polyhedron(often a cube). One cool thing about this effect is there is a new […]
I’m in the market for some important software. I’ve been using Access to track my hours and to generate invoices but it’s time for something more established and supported than my one-off app. What I’m looking for is a combination of Customer Relationship Management(CRM) and Enterprise (cough) Resource Planning(ERP) for a small business. In English, […]
Today’s search engines are pretty impressive if you think about it. Type in a keyword or three and you’re a just couple clicks away from the information you want. Of course, the internet is young and it was just yesterday that Google and Yahoo! were born. In the net’s early years, there was Gopher and […]
A few days ago, I decided I wanted to make a little demo video of myself using Ubuntu. I wouldn’t create anything too complicated but I would use Ubuntu to produce it. I have a Sony digital video camera and a firewire cable so all I needed was some software to help me get the […]
I’ve had a Nintendo DS for about 6 months now and have seen a post or two on Slashdot about how some guys got Linux running on it. So I decided to get the hardware I needed to try this and other home brew apps. In the DSLinux world, there are a few different builds […]
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I’ve installed probably 20 different models of routers, from Netgear to D-Link, Linksys to Belkin and nothing comes close to these dd-wrt-loaded babies. Installation of the firmware is not too hard as long as you can find a tftp client. Just follow the pertinent instructions for the WHR-HP-G54 on this page and you’re rollin’. After […]
This is my primary business so I figured it was worth a blog post. When did I start? In 2003, I saw a post on Slashdot talking about how many people need help with their computers and if you’re responsible and personable, you can do well solving people’s computer problems. Since I started doing this […]
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There’s this website I have to login to and check on a regular basis. It happens to be for Nexicore, a company that contracts out computer service and extended hardware warranty contracts. Nobody likes to login and check a site every day when updates to it should really be push. So I wrote a script […]