Back in my stock/wedding/studio photography days, I learned a lot of stuff that was important to the business, and I’d have to say that the two most important things I learned were composition and lighting.
Now I know what you’re going to say:
Tim, photography isn’t that complicated with all this new digital camera equipment! Just point [...]
We reported on ATM Card Skimmers in the past. It was amazing to most readers (me too!) how “normal” the addition of a card skimmer on your average ATM looks. Of course they are manufactured to slip onto the equipment unnoticed, but there is always that hope that you are attentive enough to catch such a [...]
Git is a source-control tool used by software developers.
I recently switched from Subversion to Git and while things have been mostly smooth, there have been a few “WTF?” moments. I am going to try and blog the few beginner ones I ran into in hopes of helping anyone else.
Today I ran a ‘git push’ to [...]
There are a few WordPress plugins out there (e.g. WordBook) that help you cross-post your WordPress blog posts to your FaceBook Wall, but in our case (and other’s) you want to cross-post your WordPress posts to your FaceBook Fan page, and not the wall. But how do you do that?
onecoolsitebloggingtips has 5 excellent tips to [...]
If you have ever wanted to go to Dubai or anywhere else inside the United Arab Emirates and read recently about the new “no re-entry into the UAE in under 30 days” law that is going around you are probably thinking like I was: “Well, screw that trip…”.
As it turns out, this law firstly seems [...]
TIP: You can download Windows 7 RC for free.
Ok, you’ve been hearing the buzz about Windows 7, maybe you read our take on it (or saw the screenshot tour), and you want to give it a try. Let’s say you downloaded it, installed it and are now sitting there wondering “Wait, so what’s so cool [...]
This is more of a helpful FYI for you while you are searching online… “Octomom” — the lady that had 8 kids to add to her existing 6 — is named “Nadya Suleman”.
So there you do… us doing you another favor… pssshhhh!
Every since I got my Infrant (now NETGEAR) ReadyNAS NV+, I’ve been using the Print Server feature of it to hook my HP LaserJet 1200 series printer to it. Unfortunately, it’s always exhibited strange printing behavior, more specifically:
From most applications, the first time I try and print, the Print job/command is completely ignored. So if [...]
I was trying to figure out recently how to apply multiple CSS styles to a single element. What I wanted to be able to do was define a single base style for a particular element, let’s say the P tag, and then define a multitude of differing additional styles for that same tag, like a [...]
For those of you who have not heard the “New Xbox Experience” is the upcoming dashboard update for the Xbox 360. It is scheduled for release on November 19th and includes a large number of changes including:
Netflix Streaming
XNA Community Games
Avatars
Xbox Live Marketplace on the Web
Updated Games Marketplace
Plus a complete redesign of the Dashboard Layout
For those [...]
We got a story on the front page of Slashdot… and got our assess handed to us literally 2mins later with server load jumping from 0.56 to 10 and then off into the 40s where the server just decided to melt instead of host pages.
During the last few hours we’ve been troubleshooting what went wrong [...]
It seems, given my limited experience, that handling exceptions depends entirely on the context in which you are developing. As a fan of “rules” that can be applied to different scenarios I wanted to hit you guys up and see what the rules-of-thumb were with regards to exception handling.
Some approaches to exception handling sort of [...]
A few things to consider on this fine day in this amazing economic state we’re in nowadays…
Retirement plans compared…
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had [...]
Incase you find yourself out of ideas in the bedroom, or out of ways to get your partner to call the police on you, Marc Chung just sent in a quick reference that we can print out and leave next to the bed:
(Click for a bigger version)
The badasses over at Unwired View have figured out how to install the Android OS dev image on the Nokia N810 running the Diablo (latest) firmware; effectively replacing the operating system with Android and allowing you to play around with it long before real Android phones and devices will hit the street.
The best part, it’s [...]
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