I’ve used UltraVNC for some time to handle remote access of my own machines, but it is less than ideal for providing support to friends/family. Primarily because their WAN IP may change or the UVNC server gets removed from the startup programs list or a hundred other reasons. With ChunkVNC I can move all the [...]
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MiniKeePass Brings KeePass to iPhone
October 7th, 2011 
justinWhen I started using KeePass earlier this year the best app on the iPhone to access those passwords was MyKeePass, it cost a buck, was rarely updated and only worked with KeePass databases of v2.14 or prior. Cruising the AppStore to see if someone released a better program turned up MiniKeePass, released in July. It works [...]
Free Up Space in Gmail: Scalpels and Chainsaws
August 12th, 2011 justinI needed to do some quick-and-dirty deleting in a Gmail account, a user managed to fill all 7613 MB with “humorous” videos and PDF files. Who is still attaching videos in this age of YouTube? Anyway for being a search company Google seems to be missing the most important search function of all in Gmail, [...]
Wake-on-LAN: Configuring Your PC, Tomato & iPhone
April 1st, 2011 justinSo this article at Lifehacker got me thinking about setting up Wake-on-LAN (WoL) for my system. For several years I just left my PC on 24/7 to VNC into it anytime, which I stopped doing because it was a massive waste of electricity (i.e. money dollars). I don’t need into my computer remotely very often but WoL [...]
Securely Access Your Tomato Router Remotely
April 1st, 2011 justinWhile I was configuring Wake-on-LAN for my computers I took some time to enable remote access to my Tomato router and secure it properly, this forum post was especially helpful. Under Administration->Admin Access the most important settings are: Under Local Access choose HTTP & HTTPS or just HTTPS, the default ports of 80 and 443 [...]
Sync and Secure FileZilla With Dropbox
March 6th, 2011 justinSearching for more ideas of how to synchronize my computers with Dropbox and secure them with KeePass (like this) led me to a way to sync both the settings and FTP site list for FileZilla. FileZilla is of course the best FTP client available so if you aren’t currently using it, start. It does have one horrible problem though, it stores [...]
Reprogram Your Dell MediaDirect Home Button
March 5th, 2011 justinI recently breathed some life back into my old Dell Vostro 1500 laptop, going from 1GB to the max 4GB of RAM and upgrading from Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit. Even before the upgrade it bothered me that the lone “programmable” hard button wasn’t customizable at all, it only launched Dell’s MediaDirect software which [...]
KeePass and Dropbox Are Their Own Love Child
March 2nd, 2011 justinKeePass KeePass and Dropbox are an amazing solution to password security, and I can’t believe I haven’t been using the combo until now. I’ve been using Dropbox for a few years to sync files across several of my computers, such as useful utilities CPU-Z and CoreTemp, or as a way to send files to friends [...]
