January 17, 2007

Fixing a Honda Odyssey Automatic Sliding Door
I'm going a bit away from my usual tech talk on this one but still, it points to how truly information packed, the Internet is. We had a deep freeze last night, rain and then below freezing temperatures. Most of the Country is experiencing that now...but here in California, it is a bit rare to go below freezing (especially in…
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January 10, 2007

Apple Front Row, Griffin AirclickUSB and Griffin Proxi – Triple Play
Back in mid-November, 2006, I wrote up how to get Apple's Front Row to work on older macs using a program and instructions outlined on AndrewEscobar.com. The only disadvantage to the "hack" was that it didn't magically have a remote control materialize out of the air after installation. The way that I left it on my previous post, I wanted…
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January 9, 2007

My MacWorld 2007 – SF Predictions
So, 5 minutes before the Steve Jobs' Keynote, here are my predictions: - iPhone (PodPhone is what I'm calling it) - Tablet Laptop - 802.11n - new airport extreme following the new protocols - iLife 2007 - Leopard announcement - coming Q1 - New iPod with Bluetooth built in That is it for now...I will post back with what Steve…
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January 6, 2007

WordPress updated to 2.06
So, I updated my blog to 2.06...didn't really notice anything that new or changed about it. According to wordpress.org, here is what has changed: We have a pretty important release available for everyone, it includes an important security fix and itâ€™s recommended that everyone upgrade. This is the latest release in our stable 2.0 line, which weâ€™ve committed to maintaining…
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January 3, 2007

Well…that didn’t last long!
So much for my attempt to write 1 review a day...guess the holiday vacation blew a pretty big hole in that one. I will get back to that when I have time. Recently though, I have been tweaking my Tmoble MDA. I installed a new "cooked" ROM on it. But now (and I'm not sure if it is related), my…
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December 22, 2006

“One Number…for Life” – GrandCentral.com
Today I going to quickly touch on a great web-app that is really much more than that...it's a service that allows you to choose a single local phone number and then have that phone number be your phone phone number for life. Sounds great. Basically what you get is a single number that people can call to get ahold of…
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December 21, 2006

Just installed Drupal 5 RC1
And I want to see if I can post my writing to the BlogAPI. This is just a test. Updated...didn't seem to work. I need to do some digging around to figure this out. Drupal looks pretty good though. I was able to Syndicate this blog and then push over the blog posts to the main page. My Drupal site…
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December 21, 2006

AppleJack for OSX (Geek Alert!)
Next in line is a piece of software for all of the Mac users out there. I'm sure that you take good care of your mac from a maintenance perspective (you do, right?)...you install the Apple Software Updates, periodically run the Disk Repair utility, repair your permissions, and generally don't abuse your system. There are lots of tools that you…
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December 20, 2006

Word games for kids when waiting or traveling
One of the blogs that I frequent has a nice repost of another blog. Being a father of 3 lovely girls, we do lots of traveling by car. While the DVD player that we have is great (I don't know how I survived as a kid...kids these days are soooo lucky), there is something to be said about good ol'…
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December 20, 2006

LogMeIn.com (Hamachi) Part 2
Since I already wrote about Hamachi, and I must say that I am really growing to like it, I figured that I should do a little write up of Hamachi's new parent company, LogMeIn.com. But first, a couple of new notes for Hamachi. I was able to finally access my Windows shared directories from a Mac. First you need to…
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December 19, 2006

Hamachi (now LogMeIn Hamachi) – Part 1
There are lots of ways to connect to your PC nowadays. In the past, I have used simply Remote Desktop (when using Windows) and setting up port forwarding on my router to make sure that I connect to the proper machine. A lot of times, this requires a static IP (as opposed to dynamic, which is still doable, but I…
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December 19, 2006

Software review a day (?)
It seems like recently, probably due to the holidays, that I have not been posting regularly. So last night, I made a decision (who knows if it will stick) to try to review one piece of "software" a day. I realize that it is ambitious, but I would rather make the attempt than have my blog turn stale. So, I'm…
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