by jtpratt | Jan 30, 2017 | cell phones, resources and tips, tutorial
I’ve had my Samsung Galaxy Edge S6 for almost 2 years now. In the beginning when it was new, people would stop me all the time and say “wow, is that the edge?” because it looked so different from the other phones. Now it’s more commonplace,...
by jtpratt | Jan 5, 2016 | gadgets, hardware, household tech, linux, p2p, resources and tips, tutorial, xbox
More and more people are cancelling cable and “cutting the cord”, then just using the Internet to watch TV. Most modern flat screen TV’s are equipped with apps, and most of us seem to have at least Netflix and Amazon video – and some have added...
by jtpratt | Oct 17, 2012 | linux, tutorial, ubuntu linux
In VirtualBox by default usually your VM size is 8GB. You might run out of space, and need a larger virtual machine. Recently on a windows box (gack!) I had an Ubuntu VM spun up that needed more space – and there’s no way at all to do this in the GUI....
by jtpratt | Jan 29, 2012 | linux, tutorial, ubuntu linux
I’ve been using Ubuntu for years on my desktop workstation – about 5 years now in total. I’ve been through so many revisions of Ubuntu it’s not funny – and as we all know in the beginning upgrading wasn’t really all that fun...
by jtpratt | Jul 14, 2011 | computers, diy, tutorial, ubuntu linux
I’m using Ubuntu 11.04 (upgrading from 10.04), so it’s time to setup Windows XP in Virtual Box. Virtual box is a piece of software originally created by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) that allows you to install an operating system “inside a box”...
by jtpratt | Mar 2, 2011 | cell phones, gadgets, resources and tips, tutorial
This tutorial is “How to root your HTC EVO 4G from sprint”, (and tips on rooting other cell phones too). We decided to post this since our favorite Android phones have become both the EVO and EVO Shift, and nearly every single friend and relative we know...
