backing up all of your itunes settings

Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 11:16 am

i’ve seen tons of posts around the internet regarding backing up itunes. most of them seem to focus on backing up your itunes library. while this is great, it doesn’t cover everything you probably want to back up when doing something like a complete reinstall of windows. if you only back up your library, you [...]

Categories: apple, computers, iphone, technology

it is amazing what you will find when cleaning…

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 8:00 am

this really isn’t much of a howto or anything, but it really amazes me what sorts of stuff i will find when cleaning out my computer closet. i decided to reorganize things so it didn’t look like a total jumbled mess since i have a few extra computer cases and boxes of random parts. while [...]

Categories: computers, random

stabilizing a firefox proxy through a putty ssh tunnel

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 8:28 am

when i am at work, i use a ssh tunnel when i need to bypass the proxy server. this works great except for when i visit certain sites with a large number of big images. one site would be boston.com – the big picture. it has a large number of high quality images and the [...]

Categories: computers, internet, technology

creating an icon file (.ico) with photoshop

Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 9:37 am

with this post, i am going to be keeping things pretty simple. i was recently asked why i didn’t have a favicon setup for my blog and website, i figured now is just as good of a time as any to create one. i just wanted something extremely simple. figured just my initials would work [...]

Categories: computers, internet