Category Archives: Work

Acer Aspire One 722 Performance Upgrades

If you have the lovely little AO722 netbook you may be looking for some simple and cheap upgrades. Here are my top upgrades for the AO722: Upgrade the RAM to 4GB for $20 or even 8GB for less than $40! Upgrade the HDD to a high performance SSD for less than $100 Add bluetooth by upgrading the wifi card to a combo wifi + bluetooth card for about $20 Add a Huawei 3G data card in the extra mini pci-e slot The AMD

HP Folio 13 Review

Model: Folio 13-1029wm Notebook PC Pros: Very reasonable price at $498 Very nice size and weight Good looks Solid build quality Fairly good display quality Bright backlit keyboard Excellent battery life (6-7 hours) Cons: Difficult to upgrade the RAM or replace the SSD Up/down arrow keys are combined with Page up / Page down and are MUCH too small The cooling fan is on quite often and is rather noisy when you have the laptop on your lap Glossy ‘glare’

Notebooks app for iPad

This is a page containing miscellaneous links related to the Notebooks app for iPad. It will be added to as I come across more resources/tips/links. 🙂 Notebooks Handbook: http://www.notebooksapp.com/Download/Notebooks%20Handbook.pdf Syncing Notebooks using Dropbox “Importing the notes from Dropbox actually is very easy: just set up Dropbox sync in Notebooks on your iPad and then sync from the top level book. This will import all your books and notes from Dropbox. Cheers, Alfons” http://www.notebooksapp.com/faq/ [End]  

Load balancing two network connections on Windows 7

Commenter Rafael posted a link to this Windows 7 load balancer that he wrote: dextervip/load-balancer · GitHubhttps://github.com/dextervip/load-balancerREADME.md Simple Load Balancer for Windows 7 This is a script python which works switching network card metrics (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315088 and… It looks cool and when I get some free time I hope to test the load balancing performance  🙂  

Google Analytics and site visitor IP addresses

A buddy sent me an email today saying that he had a bunch of simultaneous visitors to his work’s website today. All the visitors were from Seattle and he wanted to know if they were legit or not. How did he know they were from Seattle? Google Analytics told him so*. I suggested that we reverse DNS their IP addresses to see what their company (or at least their ISP). He told me he didn’t know how to find their

Exede satellite internet VPN performance review

NOTE: if you are looking for general (non-vpn) performance info about Exede, here is my Exede review. 🙂 Exede VPN Performance If you are like me and sometimes need to use a VPN for work or privacy you may be interested in how VPN over Exede works. So here are a few results from testing a VPN connection over Exede. Summary: It is not the ideal VPN solution, but it is reliable and can get the job done in a pinch. Details:

Error 109 when applying for an EIN online

Recently I was applying for an EIN online at the irs.gov website. I was on the very last step and received an error referencing error number 109: I was using the Google Chrome browser the first time I applied, so I switched to Internet Explorer and attempted the application again. This time the application completed successfully. If you are using Chrome and receive a similar error at the end of the application process, I recommend retrying with Internet Explorer. Hopefully that

GoDaddy 2013 Renewal Coupon Code: 20% off

UPDATE: this coupon code works for new domain names too and is still valid as of June 2013! I just renewed a number of domains on GoDaddy and this coupon code saved me 20% off of my order: GDBBA547 (actually the savings percentage in the cart was listed as 47%) If you are renewing domains (UPDATE: or purchasing new domains) I hope this coupon helps! 🙂 PS if you like this GoDaddy coupon code, please rate it from 1 to