Whiteboards are easily one of the most useful utilities that any techie can have. They make it easy to write down flowcharts, create product mockups, and organize your ideas. I’ve been using one for about 5 years now, and it has served me well. (Ignore the cat5e cables) Unfortunately, it has become old and worn...

I finally got around to enabling WiFi syncing on my ipad only to find that Windows, by default, doesn’t play nice with it. Neither the computer or the iPad wouldn’t find each other. Not a problem – just tweak the firewall. First go into your Windows Firewall settings. Then click on “Allow a program or...

Fact: People love to think “system optimizers” actually work. Fact: “System optimizers” do not work For years, both Mac OS X and Windows users have been lied to about system optimizers – programs that promise to clean up your system make it run better. The fact is, they are almost always a complete waste of...

I’ve decided to give video tutorials a shot. My first one is a quick little MSConfig overview covering the various options and tools that it has. Hope you enjoy:

Many broadband ISPs these days use something called DHCP to provide their customers with IP addresses. DHCP works by creating a pool of addresses which can be given out to devices that request one. For the most part you will usually have a router that connects to your cable or dsl modems – so you...

One awesome feature of WordPress is the ability to add in and use custom shortcodes in your posts to customize how your content looks. Shortcodes are bb-code style tags that you put right in your post, for example: [gallery] In this post I will give you a quick tutorial on how to create your own...

One of the biggest issues I have with Mac OS X is the lack of built-in FUSE filesystem support. FUSE lets you easily add extra filesystems such as SSHFS, which is a great way to securely connect to remote servers. Unfortunately a once great project, MacFuse, is now dead, and only supported by nasty patches...

Linux OSes make it insanely easy to bind multiple IP addresses to a single network interface. This is mainly useful for servers, where you often have one ethernet NIC with several several static IPs. In Debian-based OSes such as Ubuntu, all it takes is a changing one file and running one command to add a...

At this moment I have over 100 logins for various online accounts. There is no way I could remember all of those passwords without a password organization tool. The program I personally prefer is 1Password, mostly because of my mac roots, but there are many others such as Keepass and Lastpass. The way those programs...

As old as it is, the robots meta tag can have a great effect on your blog’s SEO. One little trick I’ve used for the past few years is to allow all links to be followed, but only index certain pages. With WordPress this is as easy as putting this chunk of code in your...