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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TiVo iPhone App in Worse Shape Than Greece
October 11th, 2011 
justinSo I’ve been a TiVo user for most of the last decade, recently retiring my old Series 2 boxes and picking up a Premiere. It’s got a lot of good things going for it but has some strange polish problems too, like why do some of the menus still show up in the old 4:3 [...]
Ninite to Save Me Untold Hours, Ulcers
April 5th, 2011 justinIt looks like Ninite has been around about two years now, wish I had known that. Basically it creates a fully automated installer for whatever free software you select on their website. Most of my favorite apps are available such as Dropbox, Chrome, Digsby, KeePass (a less full featured version, I prefer v2.x), VLC, Notepad++ and a [...]
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 [...]
Sync iOS Device to a New Computer? You Are Screwed.
March 25th, 2011 justinSyncing your iPhone/iPad/iTouch with a new computer should be a piece of cake right? People get new computers or have to format old computers all the time. Turns out it is actually impossible to do without losing something; your music or videos, maybe your program data like saved games or the layout and organization of [...]
inSSIDer 2 Is My New Favorite Wi-Fi Diagnostic Tool
March 10th, 2011 justinIn the process of finding updated Win7 64-bit drivers for my Dell laptop to try and improve my suddenly degraded wireless speeds I found my new favorite diagnostic tool: inSSIDer. Updating drivers has solved this kind of problem for me before but I started to wonder about how crowded the 2.4 GHz spectrum was in my neighborhood. [...]
More Dell Win7 64-Bit: Upgrade WiFi & Restore SD Reader
March 10th, 2011 justinI’ve previously mentioned my trials with upgrading a couple year old Dell Vostro 1500 laptop to Windows 7 64-bit. The latest problems were spotty WiFi speeds with the default Win7 driver (or possibly a congested wireless channel) and no driver at all for the built-in SD card reader. Google turned up a Vista 64-bit driver for [...]
Restore Laptop Trackpad Scrolling Under Win 7 64-Bit
March 6th, 2011 justinI noticed after upgrading my Vostro 1500 to Windows 7 64-bit that I had lost vertical/horizontal scrolling on the trackpad, the generic driver Win 7 installed doesn’t appear to have those features. Of course searching Dell’s site was a waste of time as they only have 32-bit Vista drivers, why update their drivers when that [...]
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 [...]
