I received a .dmg file from a Mac user today claiming it was a video file. It took a long while to figure out how to examine this file, so here are my notes so I don’t ever have to do it again. Step 1: Uncompress the file My first step was to use 7z… Read More »
I’ve been trying to solve this problem for a long while and never figured it out — even after reading lots of posts with the correct solution. Now that I’ve finally figured it out, I’m writing it down here so I can find the solution later. (And maybe it’ll help someone else…) Using audio on… Read More »
I’ve been a Bank of America customer for 12 years or so, ever since I moved to Boston from New York. I picked them because they were everywhere, and I didn’t ever want to switch banks again. When the big “Bank Transfer Day” came, I decided to switch banks too. I was annoyed about the… Read More »
Sometimes it’s easy to see why almost no one uses Linux on the Desktop. I just got a Spotify invite, so I decided to try it out. Step one is registering at Spotify.com. No trouble! But then… how do I use it? Ah! The download link! Sweet! A Linux preview! It’s available for Ubuntu and… Read More »
I’ve been trying to rescue my CD collection for some time. While I like to listen to music, I never listen to my CDs except for the few I bring with me in the car. It’s just too annoying to shuffle music 10 songs at a time and keep track of the disks and their… Read More »
A few years ago, I stopped running my email and web server out of my house. I was tired of paying for the electricity and the static IP address. I wanted to switch to FiOS which doesn’t allow me to host off of port 80. I was sick of keeping my desktop computer ON ALL… Read More »
or: making your file uploads work over HTTPS when you are using a self-signed certificate or an authority Flash decides it doesn’t like. Flash is a popular way to upload files to web sites. This is because you can have multiple files upload at once, give pretty progress bars, and can control the file upload… Read More »
Amazon claims “We’re Building Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company” and they deliver. Every time I have had a problem, they jump through hoops to resolve it immediately. Unfortunately, I am unable to make myself understood by the Amazon tech support team, which leads to lots of problems. This weekend I purchased about $6 worth of music… Read More »
I have a new T-Mobile G1 running Android from Google. It’s an awesome upgrade from the Sidekick II I had been using. Although it still feels very “rough” around the edges, I can see a lot of reasons why it’s exciting. The architecture is pretty cool — applications are a bundle of entry points called… Read More »
So in the long trip to get a working TiVo with FiOS service, I’ve hit another snag. Verizon insists on sending someone to my house to install the cable cards. Why, I ask? Because they are fragile. (It costs $100 to replace them if they break.) Yikes. So after UPS (and I hate UPS) screwed… Read More »