Fix a failed WHS system drive

I have a love-hate relationship with my home server. I’m on my second, the current being the HP Mediasmart 495ex. There’s a lot to love about this system, it’s flexible, mostly reliable, simple to maintain and easy to expand. It gives me lots of space on the network to backup files and serve media to the internal network. There’s also [...]

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Linksys SPA2102 ATA admin tone codes

The Linksys SPA2102 is a compact two line VOIP ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) with built in router. With this little box, a VOIP service provider and a decent internet connection you can get rid of your phone service and pay pennies to make calls anywhere in North America as well as getting more control over your phone numbers. This ATA [...]

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Was Steve Jobs just really hungry all the time?

I recently finished reading Steve Jobs Biography by Walter Issacson. I’ve read a few anecdotes about Jobs before, so although I wasn’t surprised that he was an innovative asshole, I was a bit surprised by the extent of his assholism. It got me wondering about the role this played in his success, but also about what factors make someone like [...]

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Mondospider & Titanoboa

I imagine that you are as interested as I am in seeing a gigantic robotic spider meet a gigantic robotic snake (from a safe distance) so here you are

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Crashplan, I love you.

You know you should be keeping backups right? If there are any digital files you don’t want to lose you really ought to be backing them up locally and offsite. Local backups are pretty easy, you can clone your drive onto an external drive and both OS X and Windows have backup built into the OS. Offsite backups can be [...]

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Blogsy – iPad blogging app first impression
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There are a few different ways for you to add posts to a blogger or wordpress blog on an iPad, but they aren’t exactly elegant when it comes to formatting. Blogsy is an iPad app that promises easy posting with multimedia love, so let’s try it out! Obviously I’m posting this via the Blogsy app. The interface is decent, I [...]

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Full 360 Panoramas on the iPhone
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Photosynth for iOS lets you capture full panoramas easily on your iPhone.

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Using a Mac Scansnap 300m on a Windows PC
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How to get the Mac version of a Scansnap scanner to work on Windows.

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Fixing Mac OS X Time Machine network errors on HP MediaSmart Servers
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Having problems creating a Time Machine backup disk on your ex490 or ex495 HP MediaSmart Home Server? Here’s the fix that worked for me, I know have a 1.2 Terabyte backup image working well!

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To Do task list sync: iPhone, Mac & PC
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Is Wunderlist the perfect free task management software for use on multiple machines and phones?

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