Why didn’t I find this little trick sooner? On the heels of keeping your VI Client connection listing clean, you can also pre-populate your vSphere Client user name and (if you’re able to) password dialog boxes when launching the client. It’s wicked easy – get to the properties of your VI Client shortcut and modify [...]
Just saw a great article today covering my favorite desktop hypervisor, VirtualBox: Running multiple operating systems side-by-side gives you the chance to test applications, run platform-specific software, and tons more without ever rebooting. It’s also extremely cool. Here’s how to run Windows, Mac, and Linux simultaneously and pain-free as possible. I’ve already extolled the virtues [...]
Facebook really is becoming the most popular way to experience a large portion of the Web – I think distressingly so. With every new “feature” release comes another modification and revisit of my security settings, and I’ve already reacted by removing a significant amount of info from my profile. Turns out some kids – I [...]
Gizmodo’s got some awesome home-brewed desktop’s leaning towards the “spring” persuasion. I really like the full-size version of the picture above, somewhat because it was shot on an iPhone but also ’cause it reminds of NYC. The rest of the user-submitted photos can be found over at Gizmodo.
Last weekend I got sucked into one of the most interesting and cool features of Picasa, Google’s Mac and PC application for organizing photos: facial recognition. Last year, my father began scanning all of the thousands of family photos that he has stored using a slide/negative scanner and a flatbed scanner for prints. I ended [...]
It’s good to see Lifehacker focusing on backup tools. After literally years of struggling with backing up various computers and laptops I’ve owned over the years, and having learned my disaster-recovery lesson the hard way when I lost the hard drive on my desktop in 1996 or something, I’ve recently settled into a very cozy [...]
Click for larger image Took a ride yesterday looking to traverse Trail Ridge Road while the rest of the Front Range baked in 90+ temps, only to be turned away by 12 miles of oiled gravel laid down in preparation of the Park Service resurfacing the classic 1920′s 12,000-foot-high scenic wonder. I even brought my [...]
Click for larger image ’cause I’m dead-set on an iPhone, and I’m dead-set against T-Mobile. But how cool of a feature is My Tracks? Many GPS receivers require you to plug a separate device into a computer, install software, transfer, convert and upload your track to the web. With My Tracks, this has become a [...]
Click for larger, more confusing view Virtual Geek has an amazingly insightful post combining multiple presentations and points from representatives from EMC, MVWare, NetApp, Dell/Equalogic, HP/Lefthand, and some other folks in the business. As you can see by the names involved, we’re talking about most every major virtualization storage player in the industry today – [...]
Tilt-shift photography is the process by which an ordinary photo is manipulated to look more like photographs of models. And I have no idea how to do it. But using TiltShiftMaker.com,you can simply upload one of your photos to their website, adjust some things like the area of focus and color enhancement, and then download [...]