It’s been a nice summer so far :-). Lot’s of good stuff going on with friends and family. I launched my first iPhone app: Camera Kompare. So far it’s doing really well and I’ve gotten some good feedback from users. I’m excited about the new versions coming out (with new cameras and features, plus a separate iPad version). Samantha has been doing great and having perfect checkups. I can’t believe the baby should be here in less than two months!
Recently I came across a pretty darn cool case mod with auto opening top air vents! I highly recommend you WATCH THE VIDEO of the case in action 🙂 It really works well and you get a much better feel for how it works when you watch the video as opposed to just looking at photos. If you want to know ever more about this sweet case mod, here are some pages with additional info and photos about the project:
NOTE: this is a first draft of this post, more info and some screenshots to be added. After installing the Broadcom card and drivers I had a difficult time getting MKV x264 video files to play. Solution: Disable all “internal filters” Set external filter to Broadcom Applies to: GOM Player, Media Player Classic Home Cinema Basic info to the Broadcom card itself: XBMC & Broadcom Bring 1080p Decode Upgrade to ill-equipped netbooks, nettops, Apple TVs http://www.anandtech.com/show/2898In one of my last
I’m preparing to upgrade my 2TB WD Green parity drive to a 2TB WD Black parity drive on my unRAID system. I did a lot of searching for resources on this topic and while there are some great forums posts out there, they are sometimes hard to find. So here is a consolidated list of useful links for parity drive replacement: NOTE: many thanks to all the helpful and supportive unRAID users out there, the credit for all of this
NOTE: this technique applies to FireFox 3, not later versions. As Peter noted in the comments, later versions of FireFox do not contain the applicable .js files. Q. Some websites (like Chase, Gmail, WordPress) won’t autofill my login credentials even though I saved them with FireFox 3. What’s up with that?! A. Good question. Sites can specify autocomplete=”off” to prevent browsers from filling in login info. This is what is causing your problem, though it is meant to be a
I wanted to write a quick tribute to my awesome mom and my wonderful mother-in-law. They are very special women and they never cease to impress me! They are also very, very cool. Case in point, on Mother’s Day: my mom did an amazing amount of work helping me put a new roof on my house, my mother-in-law went to the shooting range… What’s so cool about that to me is that my mom is amazingly fit and absolutely loves
It’s tough to come up with good titles anymore after having a website/blog for 10+ years. Actually, I’m not sure I was ever very good at picking blog titles ;-). I almost entitled this blog entry “Mashed Potatoes and White Gravy” due to me having mashed potatoes and white gravy three days in a row. However, I decided to title it “Kayak week and staying busy” and leave the permalink (URL) with the mashed potatoes bit… 2016 update, title changed
Our good friends from Arizona are visiting. Went kayaking on the Eleven Point river with friends on Wednesday. Gorgeous trip! Roofing is ordered and should be in this week or next. Mowed last week and weed whacked today. Building a new unRAID based media server :-). Cleaned my “shop” area with Samantha’s excellent help. Weeded our small garden area. Did maintenance on our off-grid battery system today. I redid some of the wiring in our house in preparation for a