I’ve been using T-Mobile’s UMA (unlicensed mobile access) service for a while now. It basically allows you to route all communications between phone and carrier over the Internet via an encrypted tunnel. When using the UMA service, you do not use any minutes off your plan because you are not using the cellular radio network. […]
I normally don’t like publicly flaming companies… there are a multitude of reasons why a transaction might go bad, none of which deserve public ridicule. Usually if one puts in enough effort and explains themselves clearly, things get resolved. I started out my relationship with DocumentIO.com really liking them. They shipped out my order very […]
When I posted about how playing games wasn’t wasting time it was giving myself an odd sense of accomplishment… turns out I wasn’t wrong about just how useful and even therapeutic that can be: Jane McGonigal says “games allow us to experience epic wins, incentivizing us to give them millions of hours to them in […]
Well the day has finally come! I’ve been collaborating with Robotics Connection for some time now, donating my time and experience to put together a new kick@ss RFID reader geared for OEMs, DIYers, and home hobbyists. Here’s the feature shortlist; Great range, even with 3×13 and 2×12 glass tags! Low power consumption (great for battery […]
I first got started with computers in the 3rd grade, where someone had left a PET computer. I started actually working on other people’s computers when I was 16. At the time, I started by only charging $10 per hour for on-site help. Still, there were times when people wouldn’t have much cash but needed […]
The fact that the 2010 Winter Olympics are being hosted in Vancouver BC is pretty great. It’s probably the only time I’ll be able to (or want to) actually attend an actual Olympics event. Olympic Trouble Too difficult? Rather than putting on an elaborate show which could never compete with the memory of China’s Olympic […]
I started dealing with multi-domained Windows forests and many of the scripts and group policy settings currently being used only work with a single domain set up, or would work better if the domain name was taken into consideration. For example, folder redirection for two users named James Smith, but who work in totally different […]
From IT Pro: A group by the name of Forthehack has launched a website called Please Rob Me which serves to expose the security risk of location-aware online services such as Twitter and Foursquare. It has opted to do so by listing all the empty homes that are available to be robbed by publishing a […]
I normally hate to take commercial videos viral, but holy crap this made a group of us laugh pretty hard when we saw it on TV. So hard in fact, we had to rush to YouTube to re-watch it.
