To help with restores or migration to another piece of hardware I find it useful to keep track of which packages are installed on my Linux systems. This isn't very difficult, but it has taken a bit of experimenting to come up with with something that works fairly well and …

Comcast has now opened up their IPv6 service to residential customers. If you have a supported modem from Comcast and a device connected to it that understands IPv6 you can connect. You might ask why would I want to setup IPv6? And that is a good question. One reason is …

I use a Mac at work and was recently introduced to Skitch in a training class. This application is really handy if you need to share images or screen shots with others. Skitch allows you to easily take a screen shot of what you're doing and then annotate it to …

This year I replaced my Palm Treo with an iPod Touch. To make sure that I could access all of my data on my iPod as well as on my Linux desktop (and anywhere else for that matter) I moved all of my data to the cloud. This is great …

On my Palm I used Keyring to keep track of my passwords. This has a nice interface in jpilot to access it on my desktop. When it came to my iPod Touch I needed to find something else to use. I did some searching and found that there was an …

One of the things that I really liked about my Palm was using Plucker to view web pages when I'm not connected to the Internet. I've found a few apps for the iPod Touch that do this and here are the ones I've tried and what I think about them …

I have already been using Google to store some of my contacts for syncing using Zindus. So it seemed pretty natural to use Google to store all of my contacts.  Using Google means that my information is available on any platform. Google provides a nice sync interface for the iPod …

I chose to use Google for my calendar. I already use Google for some of my mail and I sync contacts with Thunderbird using Zindus. Using Google means that my information is available on any platform. Google provides a nice sync interface for the iPod touch.

One annoying thing about …

I have been using a Palm as my PDA for a number of years. With the decline of the Palm platform I have been looking for a replacement PDA. The smartphones aren't an answer for me as I really don't want to pay for a data plan. I was looking …

I've been using the free version of the NX server from nomachine to access my Linux hosts and it's been working really well. I've set it up at work to allowed shared access to our compute server, however we've run into an issue here. The free version limits how many …

Brother makes great, inexpensive laser printers. However the technology that they use to determine when you need new toner is a little too conservative. I've found that it states that I need more toner when there is still quite a bit of toner left. Unfortunately at this point the printer …