home-network
Apple AirPort Express Review
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Like many of you out there, I have a home network. In the past, mine happened to be called “the not-working home network,” but I digress. Have you ever had a problem getting everything configured just so on your network? You [...]
Manage Your Network With Tonido
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Tonido is a fantastic – and simple – way to manage your home network. Tonido lets you access and share all of your files, documents, photos, music and videos from anywhere, either via a web browser or your smartphone. There’s no [...]
iSCSI RAID NAS – Three-in-One Hardware Heaven
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This is my first SCSI device – ever. In all my years of owning computer equipment, I’ve never had a single SCSI device. I’ve had plenty of scurvy devices over the years since none of it ever had enough Vitamin C. [...]
Lady Gaga Tops Vevo
Startup video site Vevo was created by three of the largest record companies – Universal Music, Sony Music Entertainment, and EMI Music. Warner Music Group is in negotiations to join as well. They chose to start their site based on the huge following that music videos attract on YouTube. YouTube owner Google helped to create [...]
How Often Do You Check Your Email?
Someone in my chat room earlier asked the crowd how often they check their email. I don’t think I actually ever “check” my email. My email program is never closed. I spend more time with my nose buried there than I likely do everywhere else combined. A lot of my business is conducted via email. [...]
How to Connect Devices to Your Network with Power Outlets
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The PowerNet 200 from the folks at Monster is geared towards those of you who have a house that may not have existing cabling for networking. It’s also perfect if you need a network port in a place where there isn’t [...]
What is the Best Network Management Tool?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I know many of you out there have to manage a network. The folks over at PacketTrap have been instrumental in helping our community grow. They’ve now come out with Perspective – an excellent tool to help manage your network! Brian [...]
What do you Need for a Wired Home Network?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Mattstech writes: “Thought I’d share a basic top 6 list on how to hardwire a home network. For power users like me, wireless just doesn’t provide the speed and reliability that I need. I ran some CAT5e over to my room [...]
Windows Vista Network Tip
The user known as “alpha” emailed me the following excerpt from Tim Anderson’s ITWriting: The Microsoft Windows Vista OS enables the TCP Window Scaling option by default (previous Windows OSes had this option disabled). The TCP Window Scaling option is described in RFC 1323 (TCP Extensions for High Performance), and allows for the device to [...]
Apple Airport Extreme Base Station Review
Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – Since my Linksys router fried itself last week (with no clear explanation as to why), I decided to take this opportunity to see what all the fuss over Apple’s Airport Extreme Base Station was all about. I took my $100 iPhone [...]
File Sharing from Windows Vista to OS X
If you’re in Windows Vista, trying to share files with an Apple PC running OS X, the process is not as simple to orchestrate as it used to be in Windows XP. Don’t ask me why, but here are the flaming hoops to get Vista to connect with your OS X machine(s): In OS X’s [...]
