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Aug 24, 2017
NRV ContainerDay Saturday September 2nd, 2017
Jun 5, 2017
How to build your Smarthome... and keep it secure
Nov 9, 2016
Windows Update hangs on Windows 7 after clean install
Dec 4, 2015
Google's Works With Nest
Nov 30, 2015
Home automation with Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Oct 30, 2015
A Smart-Home tips list
Oct 22, 2015
Marty and Doc Brown arrive at Jimmy Kimmel Live
Aug 25, 2015
Windows 10 Privacy settings fixed
Dec 21, 2013
How to disable Hangout and SMS integration
Dec 8, 2013
Grepolis
Dec 2, 2013
Voice commands for Google Now
Sep 23, 2013
Home Automation with node.js, Angular,js and Raspberry Pi
Sep 22, 2013
Banned Book week 2013
Sep 21, 2013
New vulnerability in Internet Explorer allows remote code execution
Jul 31, 2013
Game of the Month: Wooden Path 2
Jul 26, 2013
Is it worth optimizing?
Jul 22, 2013
iPhone updates 7/22/2013
Jul 20, 2013
Moto X event August 1st in New York
Jul 13, 2013
Domain name transfer
Jun 11, 2013
Google acquires Waze
Mar 25, 2013
Hard disk failure imminent!
Feb 11, 2013
Macro for Pivot table dates
Sep 23, 2012
iOS6 podcast problems and solution
Aug 13, 2012
The Internet - a source of unbridled information sharing
Jun 26, 2012
Google I/O 2012 kicks off June 27th
Jun 7, 2012
LinkedIn Password Problems
Mar 31, 2012
Google announces partnership with Nascar
Mar 31, 2012
Google Chrome doubles productivity!
Feb 1, 2012
How to disable WPS on the Netgear N600 router
Jan 27, 2012
Microsoft's vision of how we will work and live in the future
Jan 19, 2012
Integrating RequestTracker and flow.io
Jan 18, 2012
Hitler's SOPA and PIPA rant
Jan 17, 2012
SOPA/PIPA blackout day January 18th, 2012
Jan 5, 2012
Automation Adventures in 2011
Nov 21, 2011
New Chromebook videos
Sep 27, 2011
Glitch is open!
Sep 16, 2011
Kongregate Walk Like A Pirate Quest
Sep 12, 2011
Fingers tired after a long day of browsing? Let's Chromercise!
Sep 10, 2011
Back to the Future game - complete set
Aug 8, 2011
Working on a little project
Jul 11, 2011
Office Tab brings tabbed documents to Word, Excel and Powerpoint
Jul 7, 2011
Work at Medeco
Jul 1, 2011
iPod cannot be synced - Duplicate file name was specified
Jun 24, 2011
Game of the Week: The Secret of Grisly Manor
Jun 17, 2011
Game of the week: Fantastic Contraption
Jun 12, 2011
Game of the Week June 10th skipped
Jun 9, 2011
Maintenance on website for speed issues
Jun 8, 2011
It's not too late to change your Facebook password - is it?
Jun 6, 2011
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
Jun 3, 2011
Game of the Week: Penguin Diner 2
Jun 2, 2011
Google Docs introduces Pivot tables for Spreadsheets
May 27, 2011
Game of the Week: Papa's Taco Mia
May 26, 2011
Lady Gaga uses chrome...?
May 25, 2011
Jason's Deli showing use case for the Chrome netbook
May 20, 2011
Game of the Week: Paper Train
May 13, 2011
Game of the Week: Angry Birds - in Chrome
May 12, 2011
Google I/O 2011 - Keynote Day 2
May 10, 2011
Google I/O 2011 - 1st day Keynote
May 9, 2011
Khan Academy - On-line learning with a twist
May 6, 2011
Game of the Week: Stuntpilot
Apr 29, 2011
Game of the Week: Battlestar Galactica Online
Apr 26, 2011
VMWare acquires SlideRocket
Apr 15, 2011
Game of the Week: Hands of War II
Apr 14, 2011
Duke Nukem Forever delayed... until June 14th, 2011
Apr 13, 2011
Google eBooks
Apr 12, 2011
Get Cr-48 camera working again with YouTube
Apr 11, 2011
Google bringing Google I/O to the world with I/O Live
Apr 11, 2011
Latest updates for Google Chrome OS
Apr 6, 2011
ICT MxR lab responds to Google's April Fools joke by implementing it
Mar 30, 2011
Google selects Kansas City for ultra high-speed broadband project
Mar 25, 2011
Game of the Week: Cursed Treasure
Mar 23, 2011
Why the Internet is not like water or electricity
Mar 18, 2011
Duke Nukem Forever... Finally?
Mar 14, 2011
Forgotten password in Linux
Mar 12, 2011
Game of the Week: Aces of World War II
Feb 25, 2011
Game of the Week: Amea
Feb 23, 2011
Twitter: The new government communication tool
Feb 21, 2011
Twitter suspends UberTwitter, twidroyd, reinstates them again
Feb 11, 2011
Game of the Week: Mooo!
Feb 9, 2011
Progress Software Corporation's first commercial..
Feb 7, 2011
Google's Chrome Test lab explaining the benefit of living in the cloud
Feb 5, 2011
Google delivered a late Christmas present
Feb 5, 2011
Back from hiatus
Jan 20, 2011
New feature: Game of the Week
Jan 11, 2011
Verizon announces iPhone - coming in February
Jan 1, 2011
Top 10 stories in 2010
Dec 31, 2010
Why work doesn't happen at work
Dec 29, 2010
Spinal Tap rating on IMDb
Dec 24, 2010
Track Santa with NORAD and Google Maps
Dec 24, 2010
Net Neutrality: an animated primer
Dec 22, 2010
Google creates a "Teach Parents Tech" package
Dec 22, 2010
Google Wave gadgets get second chance in Shared Spaces
Dec 17, 2010
Google Chrome for a Cause - donate your tabs!
Dec 17, 2010
Back To The Future - The Game!
Dec 16, 2010
Angry Birds Plush Toys
Dec 15, 2010
EA Sports Active 2 for the Wii - the sequel
Dec 14, 2010
Lifehacker's Browser speed tests: Chrome 10 is a winner
Dec 13, 2010
15 Google Chrome features you may have missed
Dec 10, 2010
Google demonstrates advantages of Chrome OS
Dec 10, 2010
Cubicle privacy
Dec 9, 2010
iOS Development Code Kitchen
Dec 9, 2010
DigiTimes reports Foxconn to ship iPad 2 by February 2011
Dec 8, 2010
2011 Software Craftsmanship Calendar
Dec 6, 2010
Angry Birds and Pigs in Peace Talks!
Dec 3, 2010
Minority Report style surfing with Microsoft Kinect
Dec 2, 2010
TSA sees Adam Savage's junk but not 12" razor blades
Dec 1, 2010
Kevin Rose's 2010 Geek Holiday Gift Guide
Nov 29, 2010
FarmVille, Zynga games, and other Facebook games addictions
Nov 18, 2010
Damn You Autocorrect!
Nov 17, 2010
The Beatles are on iTunes
Nov 16, 2010
Google Refine 2.0 - a tool for working with messy data
Nov 9, 2010
COICA and the United States censorship
Oct 25, 2010
Google's Street View cars collected whole emails - so what?
Oct 20, 2010
Rumors for Apple's "Back to the Mac" - Results
Oct 19, 2010
Rumors for Apple's "Back to the Mac" event on 10/20/2010
Oct 18, 2010
Nintendo Wii no longer requires disk for Netflix
Oct 15, 2010
New layout of Automation Adventures
Oct 13, 2010
Sharepoint 2007 Wiki WYSIWYG editor
Oct 12, 2010
Sharpening the Tools
Oct 5, 2010
Case-mate cases - the reason for their existence...
Aug 21, 2010
Advertisements in E-books?
Aug 19, 2010
NotScripts - The NoScript option for Chrome
Aug 19, 2010
Google rumored to launch Chrome OS tablet on November 26th
Aug 13, 2010
Virus alert - a more user friendly message...
Jul 18, 2010
Replacement technology for CableCard
Jul 14, 2010
The wrong arguments to buy an iPhone or an HTC phone
Jul 13, 2010
Digg v.4 preview
Jul 12, 2010
Windows XP loses the domain controller?
Jun 28, 2010
How programmers learn how to program
Jun 25, 2010
Hitler vs. the Vuvuzelas
Jun 23, 2010
iTunes 9.1 authorization and Windows 7
Jun 18, 2010
Matt Mullenweg's 2010 State of the Word speech
Jun 9, 2010
Adam Savage presents Problem Solving: How I do it
Jun 7, 2010
Apple's FaceTime - the promo video
May 25, 2010
IBM's vision of automation - "The Internet of Things"
May 12, 2010
Android Multi-Touch tablet prototype
May 10, 2010
Google Follow Finder finds people to follow for you on Twitter
May 4, 2010
New search results in Google?
Apr 9, 2010
Scribefire extension now available for Chrome
Jan 21, 2010
Firefox 3.6 release today!
Jan 18, 2010
iPod with Sad iPod Icon fixed by Google and Digg!
Jan 12, 2010
Carbonite backup and my floppy drive
Jan 6, 2010
Foursquare starting with private beta for Blackberry
Jan 5, 2010
Ubuntu and the Symantec Backup client
Jan 4, 2010
Top 5 articles over 2009
Dec 28, 2009
We used Google Wave in a conference call...
Dec 25, 2009
Kanban in software development
Dec 23, 2009
Recovering from a hacked GMail and Google Apps account
Dec 22, 2009
Vint Cerf's visit to Virginia Tech
Nov 24, 2009
Google Wave: Now What?
Nov 17, 2009
Weave Add-On goes to version 1.0 beta 1
Nov 12, 2009
iTunes University - Now with Zombies!
Nov 10, 2009
Top 5 articles for October 2009
Nov 6, 2009
How to add a Google Wave to WordPress
Oct 21, 2009
Outlook shows some appointments off by 1 hour
Oct 2, 2009
Top 5 articles for September 2009
Sep 29, 2009
Google Wave invites going out tomorrow
Sep 28, 2009
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Sep 28, 2009
Top 5 posts for August 2009
Sep 16, 2009
Progress User Conference 2009 - Day 1
Sep 15, 2009
Progress User Conference 2009 - online!
Aug 11, 2009
SQL Challenge vs. Progress 4GL
Aug 3, 2009
Top 5 posts for July 2009
Aug 3, 2009
Top 10 articles of first half of 2009
Jul 15, 2009
Google Reader Notifier for Firefox is now Crapware
Apr 1, 2009
Firefox equivalent of Internet Explorer's Every Time I visit the Webpage
Mar 30, 2009
Tomcat uses 100% of CPU
Mar 30, 2009
Mobile viewing temporarily disabled
Mar 27, 2009
Nagios - how to determine the name of a service in Windows
Mar 25, 2009
Google tasks available on mobile phone and desktop
Mar 5, 2009
Jon Stewart tries to makes sense of Twitter
Mar 1, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-01
Feb 23, 2009
Upgrade Ubuntu server 6.04 LTS to 8.04 LTS
Feb 16, 2009
My webpage is covered by something! - ga_shade hides your website
Feb 13, 2009
ICVerify: encrypt request and answer files using EncryptionManager
Feb 10, 2009
Cursor keys not working in Ubuntu 8.10 VMWare client
Jan 26, 2009
Cursor keys not working in Ubuntu Terminal Services client
Jan 14, 2009
Setting default scan format on Canon 5075i
Jan 7, 2009
Ubuntu 8.10 connect to Cisco VPN through vpnc
Jan 6, 2009
Upgraded Automation Adventures to WordPress 2.7
Jan 5, 2009
Ubuntu 8.10 installation - GRUB error 18
Jan 2, 2009
Top 10 articles of 2008
Jan 2, 2009
Holiday break over
Nov 19, 2008
IT Productivity around the world dropping to an all time low
Nov 12, 2008
How we know the Matrix doesn't run on Windows XP
Nov 10, 2008
Firefox and NoScript to the rescue
Nov 5, 2008
Top 5 articles for October 2008
Oct 27, 2008
Modifying PDF files in Open Office 3.0
Oct 7, 2008
Apache 2.2, Tomcat 5.5 and mod_jk setup
Oct 6, 2008
Top 5 articles for September 2008
Sep 29, 2008
WebIS releases Pocket Informant for the BlackBerry
Sep 22, 2008
What the Internet is really about
Sep 11, 2008
Blackberry not syncing with BES
Sep 10, 2008
September 9th Apple's Let's Rock event in a nutshell
Sep 9, 2008
New TiVo unit: HD XL DVR
Sep 8, 2008
Google Chrome available for download
Sep 3, 2008
Kunt u mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, meneer?
Sep 2, 2008
Top 5 articles for August 2008
Sep 2, 2008
Bear traps, time burglars and attention sinks
Aug 19, 2008
Outlook attachment reminder
Aug 6, 2008
Change Microsoft Word 2007's default file type from DOCX to DOC
Aug 4, 2008
Top 5 articles for July 2008
Jul 29, 2008
Automation Adventures upgraded to WP 2.6
Jul 28, 2008
I spilled milk on my keyboard - now what?
Jul 25, 2008
Ford Sync hands-on review
Jul 21, 2008
Program launcher for Windows - Enso
Jul 2, 2008
Top 5 articles for June 2008
Jun 30, 2008
Dvorak's metered bandwidth, and why he's wrong (again)
Jun 17, 2008
Spore creature creator - Spore demo program
Jun 17, 2008
Firefox 3 download day starts at 10AM PDT
Jun 12, 2008
Firefox 3 scheduled for release on Tuesday June 17th
Jun 6, 2008
Top 5 articles for May 2008
Jun 3, 2008
Automation Adventures slow - seems to be resolved
May 30, 2008
Revision3 suffered Denial of Service attack from... MediaDefender?
May 29, 2008
Firefox 3.0 Download Day
May 21, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-05-21
May 14, 2008
"Hello, World" in 366 programming languages
May 12, 2008
Emergency Party Button
May 9, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-05-09
May 8, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-05-08
May 5, 2008
Installing my XP machine
May 2, 2008
Is Microsoft deliberately trying to kill Vista?
May 2, 2008
Top 5 articles for April 2008
May 1, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-05-01
Apr 25, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-25
Apr 23, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-23
Apr 21, 2008
Baby advice for geek daddies
Apr 18, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-18
Apr 17, 2008
Blackberry Desktop crashes when reading Outlook calendar
Apr 10, 2008
Assassin's Creed - impossible to stop playing?
Apr 7, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-07
Apr 7, 2008
Top 5 articles for March 2008
Apr 7, 2008
Ars Technica's guide to building a new computer
Mar 28, 2008
Seen on Twitter: Cyclops
Mar 26, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-26
Mar 25, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-25
Mar 24, 2008
My first visit to the Apple store
Mar 17, 2008
Opera Mini cannot have secure connections
Mar 5, 2008
Gary Gygax, Co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, dies
Mar 3, 2008
Spam filtering in Windows Outlook
Mar 3, 2008
Let your plants twitter with you
Feb 18, 2008
Intriguing spam subjects
Jan 30, 2008
Things quieting down...
Jan 18, 2008
2008 MacWorld round-up
Jan 17, 2008
Body Heat to power cell phones?
Jan 15, 2008
How secure is your wireless keyboard?
Jan 9, 2008
100 Things people are really saying about Windows Vista
Dec 21, 2007
Duke Nukem Forever teaser trailer released
Dec 21, 2007
Outlook refuses to open messages attached to another message
Dec 17, 2007
Terry Pratchett reveals he has Alzheimer's
Dec 13, 2007
Traveller IQ Challenge
Dec 5, 2007
Apple iTunes to raise prices on movies
Dec 4, 2007
Nintendo Wii still in short supply
Dec 3, 2007
The long and singing road...?
Dec 3, 2007
TiVo won't let you transfer freely downloadable content
Nov 28, 2007
How creativity is being strangled by the law - Larry Lessig
Nov 21, 2007
Don't give up on Vista?
Nov 20, 2007
Windows Powershell 1.0
Nov 20, 2007
Skype 2.0 beta for Linux includes video
Nov 16, 2007
Linux game company opens doors, releases first game
Nov 14, 2007
Gaming PC upgrade for $500
Nov 13, 2007
Setting up MXP to run under Linux
Nov 12, 2007
Automation Adventures upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1
Oct 26, 2007
Chumby about to become available
Oct 11, 2007
Kensington Bluetooth 2.0 under Windows Vista 64-bit
Sep 26, 2007
iTunes 7.4 not properly installed
Sep 25, 2007
The terrorists have won
Sep 18, 2007
Vista network performance while playing music
Sep 12, 2007
IvanAnywhere: how a telecommuter is still in the office every day
Sep 12, 2007
Spore available as pre-order item from Amazon
Sep 2, 2007
Penny Arcade, the game - a preview
Aug 28, 2007
Dvorak says "Don't Trust the Servers"
Aug 27, 2007
Windows Vista automatically updated
Aug 27, 2007
New HD TiVo incompatible with Switched Digital Video?
Aug 7, 2007
New Apple products announced at Summer Press Conference
Aug 3, 2007
Sneak peek at Amarok2
Jul 17, 2007
Apple vs. Cisco: sour grapes?
Jul 13, 2007
Online Radio Is Saved; SoundExchange Will Not Enforce New Royalty Rates?
Jun 28, 2007
Google releases Desktop for Linux
Jun 26, 2007
Internet radio protests with Day of Silence
Jun 19, 2007
How to clean up a Windows Spyware infestation
Jun 18, 2007
Warning! A Linux commercial
Jun 11, 2007
ATM with Pirated Windows
Jun 7, 2007
The Most Awesome Pic EVER
May 21, 2007
Turn the Vista Shutdown button into an actual shut down button
May 19, 2007
WordPress 2.2 upgrade
May 16, 2007
De-clutter your virtual desktop with Swept Away
May 16, 2007
Wow64: How to get the Progress Debugger to run in Vista 64-bit
May 16, 2007
WordPress 2.2 released - update scheduled
May 15, 2007
New MacBook - higher speed
May 15, 2007
Apple store being updated?
Apr 19, 2007
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) released
Apr 17, 2007
Windows Vista 64
Mar 26, 2007
Playing iPod music on any computer
Mar 22, 2007
Bumrush the charts today!
Mar 19, 2007
Beef up your wireless router with OpenWRT
Mar 19, 2007
Rumor: Apple in talks with Miglia about DVR capabilities?
Mar 17, 2007
Miranda IM 0.6.8 released
Mar 12, 2007
Oops. That's Software DEP...
Mar 10, 2007
How to stop Windows vulnerabilities before they are known - with DEP
Mar 9, 2007
Synchronize Outlook and Google Calendar with gSyncit
Mar 9, 2007
Podcast music will make its mark on the charts
Mar 7, 2007
TiVo launches Amazon Unbox service
Mar 6, 2007
Daylight Savings Time change on Ubuntu Linux
Mar 6, 2007
iTunes 7.1 for Windows
Mar 5, 2007
Upgraded to WordPress 2.1.2
Feb 22, 2007
Google Apps goes Premier
Feb 21, 2007
Intel Ethernet Pro 100 on Ubuntu
Feb 7, 2007
Virtual Host for DokuWiki
Feb 4, 2007
Flash Player 9 in Ubuntu 6.06
Jan 30, 2007
Ubuntu 6.06 LAMP server install
Jan 8, 2007
Upgrading Ubuntu from 6.06 to 6.10
Jan 3, 2007
Another article about using iPod with Linux...?
Dec 30, 2006
Banshee Music Player for Ubuntu
Dec 29, 2006
DivShare - a way to store unlimited files?
Dec 4, 2006
Distractions
Nov 14, 2006
No more excuses...
Nov 14, 2006
TiVo adds conversion of broadband video to TV set
Sep 30, 2006
And we're back...
Sep 29, 2006
New look for Google Reader
Sep 4, 2006
Hard disk performance tweak
Aug 31, 2006
Ubuntu and iPods
Aug 31, 2006
What is a chumby?
Aug 30, 2006
What CableCards can do for you
Aug 29, 2006
Setting up VPN on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Aug 29, 2006
Google Talk and Skype interoperability
Aug 28, 2006
TiVo HD PVR coming September 13th?
Aug 24, 2006
Desktop switch to Ubuntu
Aug 23, 2006
TiVo series 3 spotted in the wild!
Aug 18, 2006
Google Talk adds file sharing, voicemail and music status
Aug 18, 2006
TiVo says court orders EchoStar to halt DVR sales
Aug 14, 2006
MisterHouse from scratch
Aug 11, 2006
Asus WL-700gE Multi-functional Broadrange Wireless Router
Aug 9, 2006
iPod support in 2007 models of Ford, GM and Mazda
Aug 7, 2006
Remove Firefox auto-complete entries
Aug 2, 2006
Verizon Navigator
Jul 27, 2006
SysAdmin Appreciation Day
Jul 19, 2006
TiVo Series3 units shipping "soon"?
Jul 14, 2006
Windows Genuine Advantage fails on Virtual PC
Jul 3, 2006
Happy 4th of July...
Jun 28, 2006
Pandora music player
Jun 22, 2006
Actiontec Internet Phone Wizard - part 2
Jun 14, 2006
Google launches Picasa Web Albums
May 21, 2006
Actiontec Internet Phone Wizard
May 18, 2006
Free calling in the US and Canada with Skype
May 10, 2006
Wow - 6 months?
May 10, 2006
Launchy program launching tool
Nov 29, 2005
Think Secret - Road to Expo: Reborn Mac mini set to take over theliving room
Nov 21, 2005
DVD or Video to iPod tutorial for Windows users
Nov 21, 2005
TIME.com Tuned In: They're Not Reruns, They're iReruns!
Nov 21, 2005
TiVoToGo transfers to video iPod
Nov 21, 2005
Apple to introduce 3 new iPods before end of year
Nov 15, 2005
TiVo exclusive movie download
Sep 27, 2005
Transfer your TiVo recordings to your PocketPC
Aug 24, 2005
Google Talk launched
Aug 12, 2005
Exclusive pics of TiVo Download - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Aug 9, 2005
iPod in the car
Aug 9, 2005
TivoTool
Aug 9, 2005
Skype plugin for Trillian
Jul 17, 2005
Linux on board: Blowing the lid off of TiVo
Jul 17, 2005
Mad Penguin review of Sonos Digital Music System
Jun 28, 2005
Apple - iTunes 4.9
Jun 26, 2005
TiVo To Go MPEG2 Decrypting
Jun 20, 2005
Apple iPod
Jun 16, 2005
TC Con '05! Las Vegas
Jun 9, 2005
Secret TiVo Tips and Tweaks on Yahoo! News
May 18, 2005
Google Desktop Search - Enterprise edition
May 16, 2005
Robert X. Cringely on Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! Music Engine, and Apple's iTunes
May 13, 2005
Three articles about TiVo
May 12, 2005
Funny Firefox videos
Mar 15, 2005
Galleon 0.2 released
Mar 15, 2005
TiVo - ComCast deal
Mar 8, 2005
Interesting site with Linksys Information
Mar 8, 2005
iSee iTunes - TiVo HME application
Mar 8, 2005
Tivo To Go Unleashed!
Feb 28, 2005
Galleon 0.1 - first look
Feb 24, 2005
TiVo 802.11g support - NetGear WG111
Feb 24, 2005
Galleon to replace JavaHMO
Feb 23, 2005
Yahoo! Tech Tuesday on DVR's
Feb 23, 2005
TiVo 7.1 supporting 802.11g
Feb 2, 2005
TiVo HME
Feb 2, 2005
TiVoToGo experiences
Feb 1, 2005
Crossbar AV Cast System
Jan 10, 2005
A new router in the home
Jan 3, 2005
TiVoToGo released
Nov 29, 2004
Stupid programmers and the neutral zone
Nov 22, 2004
Opening the blog - the story so far