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...

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 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...

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...

One little annoyance with WordPress is the way it display post excerpts. Instead of doing the logical thing and doing a regular ellipsis at the end of the paragraph, it tries to get fancy with an ugly […] Fortunately for us it is really easy to switch: Open your theme’s functions.php file (create one if...