Archive for the ‘tech’ Category
Home Office – Revisited
After having my home office featured on Lifehacker this morning, I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback about my set-up. I’ve been following the comments left on LH as well as Flickr and my own blog and wanted to post a quick entry to address some of the common questions: In the city of San [...]
Backing It Up – Email
This is the second article in my series about backing up your system using web-based services. In my previous article, I discussed the use of Flickr as a photo archival/sharing service — this time my focus is going to be on email. If you’re using a desktop email client like Outlook or Thunderbird you’ve likely [...]
Site-Specific Browsers
If you look at the continuum of software application platforms you’ll find that there is a lot of interesting stuff happening at the moment between the extremes of pure web applications and pure desktop applications. You have things like AJAX, Flash and Silverlight which are trying to bring more of the desktop app experience to [...]
Mind Your Bit’ness – Codecs and Windows Vista x64
Over the weekend, I sat down to copy some videos off of my Flip Ultra camcorder and do a little video editing (if you’re not familiar with the Flip see my review over on The Full Catastrophe). Previously, I’d only used the Flip with our Mac Mini, but that machine is a bit underpowered for [...]
Backing It Up – Digital Photos
When wildfires raged through San Diego county last fall, my wife and I found ourselves pondering the question of what to take with us if we were forced to evacuate our home. Luckily, we weren’t ever in any danger but it did force us to consider what things were important to take with us in [...]
Custom Windows Vista Installation
If there is one thing that I’ve learned after working with Windows for 15 years is that sometimes you just need to reinstall and start over. Whether due to hardware failure or the general software “gunk” that builds up over time, I seem to find myself re-installing Windows on a fairly regular basis. As the [...]