by jtpratt | Jan 15, 2008 | diy, hardware, household tech, networking
The average home has multiple computers and all kinds of digital photos, mp3’s, and documents that are about as organized as a bucket of slop. If you don’t get a central location to store and protect it – you are stones throw away from pissing away...
by jtpratt | Jan 10, 2008 | computers, diy, gadgets
The Register has this article about USB Cables that back the movie industry that caught my eye. I had forgotten that one of Windows Vista big selling points (ack!) was that it could “lock things down” at the hardware level. In other words, a video card...
by jtpratt | Jan 4, 2008 | computers, diy, gadgets, hardware, music
I saw an ad from Newegg yesterday and came accross something I hadn’t seen before – it’s a USB Vinyl turntable under $100! Of course there are some of us (geeks) that still have turntables, and you can just take the line out and run it in a decent...
by jtpratt | Dec 13, 2007 | diy, gadgets, liveCD, resources and tips, software, windows
If you like this tutorial guide – please digg it! This post of part of The Smorgasbord Tech Reviews series! With all the people downgrading from Windows Vista to XP, I felt this was a pretty timely post. You can’t boot Windows XP from a floppy disc, but...
by jtpratt | Dec 11, 2007 | diy, linux, ubuntu linux
I just had to write about this one real quick too, this is one of the most needed and coolest Ubuntu Linux tools I’d seen in a long time. This articles shows how to create your own live cd with Remastersys. What does that mean? It means that you can create your...
by jtpratt | Dec 11, 2007 | case mods, computers, diy
When I read this post on “best things to do with your old PC” it really cracked me up. This barbecue PC was probably the funniest for me, but they’ve also got one case turned into a coffee machine, many “mice” sculptures, and some very...
