Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Shan
I’ve been on a quest for the perfect off-site backup service. I’ve considered everything using my own servers and rsync, tried various free/cheap services like Carbonite and AT&T Remote Vault, and finally came across Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk uses Amazon S3 for storage, and Amazon EC2 for their Plus service. This review is of the [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Shan
So, most of you who read this blog are technologically savvy. And, if you’re anything like me, your friends and family come to you for help and advice for all things computers. Sometimes, the person needing help just isn’t familiar with all the jargon and acronyms needed to get things working. That’s where What does [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Shan
So, last fall I bought a Genie PowerLift Excelerator garage door opener from Home Depot. I decided to go with a higher-end opener because of the nice warranty graphics on the box touting their superior warranty. It turns out to have been a great decision.
Over the past couple months, I’ve noticed that the garage door [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2008 by Shan
I just finished the multi-day ordeal of getting Vista 64-bit SP1 to run under BootCamp. I specifically ran into two distinct problems, and found the workarounds for both.
Problem 1: Vista x64 SP1 supports EFI booting, but not the version Apple uses on Macs.
There are several theories as to why you can’t boot from the Vista [...]
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Shan
I got sucked into a spontaneous purchase the other day at Wal-Mart. I was walking by and saw they had an Aiptek Action HD Camcorder. It has several key features that had caught my eye in the previous weeks:
It’s cheap ($199)
It’s HD
I was in the market for a cheap, small, HD camcorder, and this seemed [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Shan
I’ve finished moving everything over to Wordpress now. I ditched the Flex site I was building because since I started it, I’ve decided to make my site less of a personal site and more of my portal to the Flex/AIR/CF community. Also, since I had started that site, I’ve started to focus on open-source projects, [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Shan
I’ve finally created the event for those of us that hang out in #coldfusion and #flex, that are going to CFUnited. Many expressed interest in such an event, so let’s do it.
http://crush3r.com/page/jzyugdodsf
When you sign up, be sure to include your /nick and real name, so I can make some nifty name badges.
On a side note, [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Shan
Every once in awhile, I have to send out DMCA notices to people who have blatantly stolen our copyrighted materials. Generally, I skip emailing the offender directly (they usually are well aware of what they’ve done), and email the notice to their hosting provider, or the hosting provider’s bandwidth provider.
Today, I got a response from [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Shan
Mariokart Wii is a blast as a game. Three complaints about the online experience:
1. Friend codes suck. It’s a pain to use, hard to track down your own friends, and then after all is said and done, your friend code only applies to a single game title, so your Mariokart code won’t work with Smash [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Shan
Sometimes you just need to URL encode a string (URLEncodedFormat() in CF, or urlencode() in PHP), and not actually make a HTTP request. Here’s a simple library for you to use, that I wrote for my OAuth actionscript lib.
Attached is URLEncoding.as for your enjoyment.
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