I have to start by thanking my mom for getting me into computers. It was back when I was 9 years old and my mother brought home this thing called a PC from work. I guess they were upgrading all of their machines and gave some of the machines away …
So what is Dropbox.com? Dropbox is an online software that allows you to set up a share folder on your computer that is securely stored on the Dropbox servers in the cloud. This folder appears by default in your my documents folder. Drop whatever you want in this folder (free …
Here is a link to an article about Fashion in Dalian, China, an up and coming fashion hub. I was contacted because of my role within the Fashion Asia group to provide some information about the fashion scene there. You can read the article by going here: http://www.scmp.com/article/981507/fashionable-city
Would you like to turn on your PC remotely? Perhaps from a different room in your house? Perhaps from your backyard? PERHAPS from a beach in the Bahamas? I hope to help people understand what Wake on LAN (WOL) is and how to use it. If you have an Xbox …
I will quickly describe how to create HD quality screencasts for the web. The key to creating screencasts that end up looking great all depends on how you started to create your videos. I recommend to use Camtasia for all video screencasts, it’s an amazing piece of software and very easy to get the hang of it …
If you have multiple iOS devices, you may run into a problem of transferring apps to other devices and keeping the saved data in that game or application. A good example of this is an app called My Japanese Coach, which I use from time to time. Well, I sure …
Have you ever had a time where your computer’s HD died or your Windows/Mac operating system crashed and your computer was unusable? It’s always good to have a spare USB key that has a bootable operating system on it. What does a bootable operating system mean? Well, a bootable operating …
So I recently created a VMware application with Ubuntu to test some of my Drupal sites offline. You can easily install Ubuntu by downloading one of their Images, I recommend 8.04.4 LTS (Hardy Heron) as it comes with Php 5.2. Anything after Hardy Heron comes with PHP 5.3 which causes …
A good article on how to reduce your global roaming expenses. http://travel.usatoday.com/news/story/2011-10-17/Beat-huge-wireless-roaming-charges-when-abroad/50806548/1#
My new favorite quote, and I live and breathe by it. “CEOs should care about details. Even shades of yellow. On a Sunday” – Vic Gundotra If you read the post below it will make a lot more sense… Vic Gundotra originally shared this post: Icon Ambulance One Sunday morning, January …
You should have heard about Dropbox by now. It’s a free cloud storage service. They give you 2GB of free online storage space to start your account. If you refer people, you get additional storage space added to your account. Here is how it works: You install the application on …
Files on windows with the file extension “.bat” are called batch files. These are usually small files with some lines of Windows batch code that can help automate things for users. They are commonly used to do the following: Add a share drive Add a share printer Replace shortcut files …
I’m going to show you how to make a Windows program start automatically when you turn on your PC (without requiring you to login to your account). Typically software that is meant to run unattended will have an option to run as a Windows service. This enables the application to …
iShutdown is a great app for a small fee. I searched the app store for a free solution but came up with nothing. I have emailed the owner of this app a few times and he is actively working on this app and working out the kinks. Having said that, …
