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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Photosynth for iOS lets you capture full panoramas easily on your iPhone.

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 Wunderlist the perfect free task management software for use on multiple machines and phones?

What is a Home Server and why does Microsoft want to kill it?

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.