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Operating system look: Snow Leopard

September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

It’s now been close to three weeks since Snow Leopard arrived in stores, and the Internet has now had a chance to go through the entire system and find the good, the bad and the barely changed. I’ve been using it since that time too, and like some of the subtle changes. Since Engadget, Gizmodo [...]

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Gear test: Sennheiser PX100 headphones

September 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Using a computer, and especially an iPod with music means having a set of headphones that sound good, pack well, and don’t break the bank. For the last year or so I’ve been rocking a set of Sennheiser PX100 foldable headphones and I believe they satisfy all the above criteria. The Sound The most important [...]

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Snow Leopard arrives (this Friday)

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments

The time has come for a new Macintosh operating system. Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard as the cool kids call it, will arrive in stores this coming Friday and bring a host of new features with it. The name of the OS differs very little from 10.5, which was just Leopard, and that [...]

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Building a Ubuntu fileserver: The Software

August 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment

After planning and building a Ubuntu-based fileserver, it’s time to add software to the mix, so that the computer does the work it was originally meant for. In the case with my command-line only server, the software I added was for file sharing and media serving. The software I’m explaining here was all installed via [...]

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Get nice emails from WordPress

August 11th, 2009 · No Comments

This is a quick tip about WordPress blog emails. Ever since this blog was started, I received emails about comments from my webhost default address. It was ugly looking and didn’t provide any details about who really sent the comment. The solution is to create an email account on your server with the address wordpress@domain.com [...]

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