a blog about tech stuff – mostly.
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MIT creates a new way to charge your electric vehicle
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/hybrid-car-electric-car-battery-powered-car,news-11462.html More in-depth: http://news.discovery.com/autos/electric-car-battery-goo-110608.html Pretty slick stuff! Maybe EV cars will be cheaper soon.
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Microsoft: It’s Time to Retire Windows
Interesting article, and will be even more interesting to see what Windows “8” actually looks like. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/windows8-tile-gui-microsoft-operating-system-touch-screen,news-11395.html
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Open source solutions for a home security camera system
Free (almost) ways to use an old computer as your home or small business video surveillance system. You’ll need to purchase some network cameras of course, as well as cables (unless the cameras are wireless) and then you’ll need to mount them or pay someone to mount them for you, but this software will allow you to…
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Quick, easy way to resize / compress photos
I just found a simple little utility to resize entire folders of photos quickly and easily. It’s free, it doesn’t need an install, and it works pretty well. The unusual part about it is that it works differently depending on what you name the executable. You can see what I mean by reading the information…
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What’s wrong with the “cloud”?
THIS is what’s wrong with the cloud. Companies that have “Terms of use” statements like Amazon’s current one. Here’s an excerpt: 5.2.Our Right to Access Your Files.You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate…
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Alternatives for Windows Home Server (WHS)
Just found two linux software solutions that appear to be alternatives to Microsoft’s Windows Home Server Operating System. They look promising, although they don’t have the “automatic backup” functionality that WHS provides for its client computers. I haven’t tried WHS yet, nor these alternatives, but if you’re looking to use something like WHS, give these…
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End of the world, huh?
Well, I’m still alive, along with my daughter. I’m assuming everyone else is still alive here on May 22nd. Yes, the day AFTER “the end of the world” as predicted by familyradio dot com which incidentally is down right now, probably due to all of the angry people going to their site to say they were…
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Are you ready for IPv6?
From http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/: On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors…
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Some sort of form builder tool
http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/forms/12794-advanced-bluevoda-form-processor.html Haven’t actually tried this yet, but I’m posting the link in case I have time to test it out sometime. Looks like it might work well, and it says that it doesn’t require “Blue Voda”, whatever that is.
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Exchange 2007 / 2010 Backscatter and how to resolve it
I’ve recently had some issues with new installations of Exchange servers that were trying to send out NDR responses to spammers, which quickly filled the Exchange Queues and delayed emails. This article explains what and why this happens, and also helps you fix the problem. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/A_4257-Exchange-2007-2010-Backscatter-and-how-to-resolve-it.html