- Published:
- December 27, 2009 – 12:16 am
- Author:
- By Dave
I’ve decided to replace my cable plan and DVR box with something a little more… functional.
Sure we get a ton of channels from Verizon FiOS, but we hardly ever watch them. Our television viewing habits mainly consist of a few programs that my wife watches and a few programs that I watch, but we almost [...]
Categories: Hardware, Software, Tech, Television
Tagged: boxee, replace-cable, Television
- Published:
- October 30, 2009 – 6:40 am
- Author:
- By Dave
I put this together for a project in a class I am taking, and thought it would be handy for others as well. The goal is to access a Windows filesystem and reset the password for a user, for example if someone forgot the Administrator password or the account is locked out from too many [...]
Categories: Software, System Administration, Tech, Ubuntu, Windows
Tagged: chntpw, livecd, password, Ubuntu, Windows
- Published:
- October 29, 2009 – 5:03 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
At some point in the past, Google removed the Oldest » link out of everything except for your inbox and labels. This makes it hard to find the “first” or an early email of any sort if you have a lot in your search result. I wanted to find an email of which I had [...]
Categories: Google, Tech
Tagged: gmail, search, tips, tricks
- Published:
- October 27, 2009 – 9:50 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Google Voice just announced that it will officially support any existing phone number on its platform. This means that the hack that I posted previously is depreciated and you no longer need to use the “Do Not Disturb” option – and this fixes the annoying extra rings that callers would hear upon entering your voicemail.
Steps [...]
Categories: Site Updates, Tech
Tagged: Google, phones, Voicemail
- Published:
- September 29, 2009 – 5:00 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
I was recently tasked with copying speaker’s presentations, files and handouts onto 100s of USB Drives (key drives) for a conference that work is hosting down in Washington, D.C. My first thought was that it was going to be a pain to have to copy/paste the files to each drive. I thought about creating a [...]
Categories: Hardware, Other Code, Programs
Tagged: conference, key drive, tips, tricks, usb drive, usb key drive