Well this one was a little surprising, the latest Apple TV (2nd generation, software v4.3) doesn’t have the option to change the speed of your slideshow. All my other devices let me set the length of time between slides; TiVo, Panasonic TV, Boxee Box, but why not the Apple TV? It apparently switches slides based [...]
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Tomato Advanced Firewall Settings
July 29th, 2011 
justinA user commented on the Tomato Wake-on-LAN post: I found I couldn’t get wake on lan to work at all until I enabled Advanced->Firewall->Allow multicast. Well that made me wonder what all those advanced settings did, and turns out the descriptions available suck! Well sometimes there wasn’t even a description to label as “suck” so [...]
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 [...]
