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 [...]

How to get the Mac version of a Scansnap scanner to work on Windows.

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!

Is this the electric vehicle of the apocalypse? Check out the power train on this bad boy: 12v car batteries, 120v power inverter and an old electric hand drill.

I recently bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap s300 – this is a compact portable USB powered duplex sheetfeed scanner, and first off let me say I am DELIGHTED with the hardware. It appears to be solidly built, well designed and has been completely reliable for the short time that I’ve been using it. Its small enough to fit in my laptop [...]

This is the EASY way I built an iPhone cradle for my car – using the ashtray.  I’m using a JVC KD-800 deck because it was cheap, had built in head unit control for the iPhone* (not just ip0d), and most importantly had 2 USB ports, one in the front and one in the back.  On a side note, I’m [...]

I’m fortunate enough to live in a part of the world where malaria is not a big problem, but I still hate mosquitos.  That’s why I desperately want one of these – it’s like a anti-aircraft canon that detects a mosquito by its wing beat frequency and then shoots them out of the air with a laser..  That’s just fantastic. [...]

Are the risks of jailbreaking your iPhone worth it? How well does blackra1n work? What are the issues to be aware of before I hack my mobile phone?