Ever since switching to Chrome a few years ago I’ve missed the ‘print selection’ feature where you can print just a highlighted block of text. You can choose to print only certain page numbers in Chrome, but if the piece you want spans a page break you end up with a bunch of superfluous garbage [...]
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ChunkVNC Will Ensure I Provide More Free Technical Support Than Ever!
November 9th, 2011 
justinI’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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
