Getting Older and Wiser

Category: Technology

  • Gigabit connection not working on Dell Dimension 9200 (XPS 410)

    I’ve had my Dell Dimension 9200 (also known as the XPS 410) for a few years now and have been connected to a Netgear WGR614 router which has a maximum wired speed of 100mb. As I have been acquiring a lot of wireless N equipped devices, I decided to upgrade my router to the Netgear WNDR3700…

  • iPhone 3g Home Button Fixed – Kudos to Apple

    About a month ago I noticed that the Home button was getting less and less responsive. The problem was intermittent, but it was getting more and more frequent. I would sometimes have to hit the Home button two or three times before it would register. A friend told me that he thought that the issue…

  • How do I take a screen shot or picture of my iPhone screen?

    While trying to explain to distant friends how to do something on their iPhones or to show them what an application looks like, I always wished there was a way to take a picture or screen capture of my iPhone screen and send it to them. Normally if I was on a computer I would just hit…

  • How to beat Tap Defense on the iPhone

    While there are different strategies for different maps, the one strategy that I’ve found to work regardless is you must manage your gold early in the game and raise your interest rates so that you’ll have enough gold in the later levels to buy upgraded towers. – My Tap Defense strategy is pretty simple. Use…

  • Change Vista’s Power Button To Shutdown, Not Sleep

    If you’re here, it is most likely because you are like I used to be, annoyed that Windows Vista’s Start menu power button puts the computer to sleep instead of turning it off. Well, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll change it so in two clicks you can power off your computer. First off,…

  • Lost: Gold Ring in yard

    My wife’s parents are visiting for the holidays. The other day they were out in the yard raking leaves and weeding. Yesterday, my wifes mother was in a panic saying that she’d lost her engagement ring and thinks she may have lost it while doing the yardwork. Both she and my wife are upset as…

  • Configuring Globalscape SFTP Behind an ISA Firewall

    I was having some trouble trying to get FTP over SSL on a Globalscape SFTP (Secure FTP) server working behind an ISA Firewall. Once I got it working, I figured  I’d post the configuration to hopefully help you avoid the headache of figuring it out on your own. On the ISA server I created two…

  • WordPress K2 – How To Move Title Text Up or Down

    In the WordPress K2 Theme, the title text is automatically placed on the left hand side about halfway down the header. This works beautifully if you have the plain blue background that comes enabled by default with the K2 them, but can cause problems if you decide to use the custom header image option. This basically…

  • Vosky Call Center (or as I call it – The Skype Box)

    This box is amazing. Make skype like your home phone and more.  I have now purchased four of these for everyone in my family. I have two installed in Europe and two installed here in the USA. The basic functionality is that it lets you use your home phone to talk on skype. When you…

  • How can I wipe erased data off of a hard drive or folder??

    When you delete a file from your hard drive, the file itself is not actually deleted. Instead, windows deleted the reference to the file from the computer’s “table of contents”. This tells the computer that the space on the hard drive taken by that file is now available and can be overwritten. Here’s the catch:…