We’re pleased with the results of using Instabind to protect the edge of a carpet remnant that we bought for our basement. In addition to the Instabind, I got a Surebonder PRO4000A glue gun, since it could take the long nozzle that Bond Products sells for use with Instabind. The video below helped in figuring [...]
I was pleased at how easily Ubuntu 11.4 installed on my old Dell Latitude D600, but the wireless didn’t work immediately. Thankfully, I just had to search for “firmware-b43-installer” in the Ubuntu Software Center, and that did it! By the way, I had to reinstall it after letting the software upgrade tool upgrade me to [...]
Upgrading our Vostro 2510 to Windows 7 was surprisingly painless. It seemed to have good video, networking, and audio drivers from the start. However, I couldn’t adjust the screen brightness with the special keys. I tried looking for Dell Quickset for this hardware and OS combo, but no luck. It turns out that installing the [...]
I’m testing a Polycom IP 321 with OnSip.com, and the calls kept dropping. It was probably a consistent call duration, somewhere around a minute or 90 seconds. We’re behind a Cisco 871 router. I was about to start timing the calls and packet sniffing when I found this thread that suggests the command no ip [...]
A week ago, my power, network, and volume icons disappeared from the tray area of Windows 7. When I chose “Customize notification icons” and then “Turn system icons on or off”, the choices were grayed out like the image to the left. I tried the Group Policy and registry solutions that I found online, but [...]
Browse the library — this looks amazing! And check out the intro video from TED: it challenged me to think about how video learning could be used to make classroom learning more personalized.
Thought I’d be choosing between Apple TV and Roku, but here were my primary requirements: Netflix Play recorded video from my Windows Media Center shares The only device that seems to do both right out of the box is the WD TV Live Plus. I picked one up for under $100 with an HDMI cable. [...]
I was excited to see the Boxee Windows Media Center Integration, especially since there doesn’t seem to be any other way to get Pandora on a Windows Media Center. Unfortunately, my Harmony Remote, emulating an MCE remote through streamzap, can’t navigate Boxee very well. You need to be able to send a backspace, which doesn’t [...]
I learned about the blekko search engine at SXSW last week. Check out this introductory video — they’ve added an interesting way to prioritize your search results according to “slashtags”.
I was creating a facebook app and trying to host the canvas URL on my 1and1 hosting account. Even though I could browse directly to the index.html and it would render fine, I would get an error when trying to browse to it via apps.facebook.com. “Method Not Allowed. The requested method POST is not allowed [...]
