5-Minute WebDAV Server for Dropbox and iPad Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
This quick guide will get you set up with a secured simple WebDAV server using Ruby and Rack. The idea is to make your Dropbox accessible through WebDAV. This enables secure saving of documents from...
View ArticleA Look at the Value of the Original iPad
When the iPad was first announced, in January 2010, I posted an initial outlook for the new device. Nearly 2 years has passed since that article, and since then the iPad 2 has been available on the...
View ArticleApple Bluetooth Keyboard Won’t Link with iMac After Installing rEFIt
Do you have an Apple Bluetooth keyboard that refuses to link with your iMac after installing rEFIt? Here’s my short story for those with similar problems looking for a solution. The Solution You might...
View ArticleFixing MBR Tables on iMac or MBP Triple Boot Setups
I spent several hours today struggling to fix my iMac triple boot setup with Mac OS X Lion, Windows 7 x64, are Ubuntu 11.10. rEFIt does not handle the new Apple Boot partition included in the latest...
View ArticleSolution to Microsoft Flight Simulator X “side-by-side” Error
This is a mini-guide for those struggling with trying to get Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) Deluxe, and the Acceleration Expansion pack working on Windows 7 x64. The two big issues which I will...
View ArticleMac OS X Filenames with Apostrophe’s and Ruby 1.9 Unicode Support
Ruby 1.9′s m17n (multilingualization) engine has eased some of the pains of supporting different encodings. Unfortunately, it makes things a little more difficult in the simplest of cases. I was...
View ArticleText Mining Wikipedia for Misspelled Words
Have you ever read an article on Wikipedia and wondered if the article was more accurate or syntactically correct than if the article had been written by an individual or small team? I have, and this...
View ArticleThe Long Road to IPv6
IPV6 launch day is just around the corner. Less than four days to go at the time of this posting. I couldn’t think of a reason why I should be left out of all the fun, so I took the plunge and...
View ArticleColorado High Park Fire Time-lapse Videos
On the first day of the Colorado High Park Fire (June 9) I was in the Red Feather Lakes area, so I took a couple short time-lapse videos of the smoke plumes. As of this writing the fire has burned more...
View ArticleBad Designs Among Us
Bad designs are among us! Ack! Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Join me on a short, infuriating experience, and see some other examples of the horrors that surround us every day. When we...
View ArticleA Glance at Ethics in the Digital Era
Here’s a relic from the past–an old school research paper. Debates around computing ethics continue on, so I thought I would toss some of my old thoughts out there. The conclusion I had when I wrote...
View ArticleHow to Setup a L2TP VPN Server on OS X
This is a fast guide on configuring OS X to act as an L2TP VPN Server. This can be accomplished with Apple’s Server App, but if you don’t mind running a few Terminal commands and adding a couple...
View ArticleConvert Comics to PDF without white margins
The bug bit me this afternoon in the desire to convert some comic book CBR files to PDF so that I could put them in iBooks and have everything in one place. I turned to trusty Calibre to do this, but...
View ArticleApple’s Time Machine may be losing your data
I discovered a critical bug in Apple’s implementation of Time Machine in OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 that causes the dissapearance of some data from backup snapshots. I highly suggest that you check the...
View ArticleChange OS X Screen Resolution from the Menu Bar
Want a way to change your screen resolution and screen brightness from the OS X menu bar? I did, so I pulled together several separate solutions to scratch the itch. Here’s my setup and what you’ll...
View ArticleDisable OS X Yosemite 10.10 GateKeeper Rearm
Run the following command in Terminal to stop OS X Yosemite 10.10 from rearming Gatekeeper. Normally, Gatekeeper is rearmed after 30 days if it hasn’t been used. 1sudo defaults write...
View Articledd-wrt and OpenVPN, don’t do it
Thinking about using your router with dd-wrt to run all of your home connections through a VPN such as OpenVPN? Don’t bother unless your router has an insanely powerful CPU. I learned this lesson the...
View ArticleData Degradation, The Silent Killer of Your Data
Data rot is the scourge of modern day computing. When I think of the ~2 million files on my iMac, from photos and videos to school reports dating back to the 90s, it’s disturbing to think that those...
View ArticleOS X Activity Monitor Column Orders Not Saved [Solved]
Around the Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite upgrade from 10.9, I noticed that Activity Monitor.app would refuse to remember any column preferences. Switching between tabs such as CPU and Memory would even reset...
View ArticleColorado High Park Fire Time-lapse Videos
On the first day of the Colorado High Park Fire (June 9) I was in the Red Feather Lakes area, so I took a couple short time-lapse videos of the smoke plumes. As of this writing the fire has burned more...
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