Hacking the Cable Modem: Building A Console Cable
The following instructions describe how to build your own console port from scratch. If you are a computer junkie like me, you may already have all the parts needed. For example, the most important part you need is a RS-232–to–TTL integrated circuit chip, which you might find in an old serial mouse or smartcard programmer.
How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
The old iTunes allowed continuous play of podcasts on an iPhone or iPod touch using an ordinary playlist. You had to drag and drop the podcasts into the playlist, then "shuffle" them on the device. It was a manual process, but a vaguely intuitive one and one broadly known to users.
Unix Tip: Grepping on Whole Words
If every time you grep for a specific word or string, you get a pile of lines that don't match what you were looking for, maybe it's time to learn about whole word searching. In today's column, we examine two ways to get what you want, the whole of what you want and nothing but what you want.
How to set up a Ubuntu 9.10 desktop
This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.
iPhone Hints: Lock picture orientation in Photos
For our first installment of our new iPhone Hints, we delved into the confusing world of subscribed calendars, and even after several hundred words on the topic, I was still getting lingering questions via e-mail. This week's tip heads in the opposite direction--ultimate simplicity.
jfruh
Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
pasmith
New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
Esther Schindler
Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
mikelgan
How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
David Strom
Five important Windows 7 mobility features
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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