WindowsXP Pro and certain implementations of Windows Vista have a fun little feature known as file encryption.  On WindowsXP Pro, this feature is called EFS or Encrypted File System and can be implemented on the file or folder level by right clicking on said file/folder, selecting properties, followed by advanced and selecting “Encrypt contents to [...]

Now that you’ve gotten all the hardware components for your new DVR/Media center installed and configured, you will need to get some software. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, please check it out here. For starters, you will need an operating system. For most of you, you will be using a variation of Windows, [...]

For the past number of years, TiVo has been all the rage because of it’s ability to record/pause/fast forward and rewind live TV.  TiVo is great for the everyday TV fan, but what do you do when you watch an excessive amount of TV and have an odd obsession with recording all of it, including [...]

This has been around for a little while now, but I figured I’d throw a post in here about it, for any of you that haven’t heard about it.  For some reason it doesn’t get as much publicity as pay sites such as Napster or Itunes but the website www.ruckus.com offers free music for any [...]

If you have an old PDA laying around at home, this post is just for you.  I’ve found myself trying to come up with some creative idea’s over the past couple of weeks as to what to use my old Audiovox Maestro PocketPC for.  In the process, here are the top 10 idea’s that I’ve [...]

I just thought I would throw this on here in support of the Wordpress plugin Gregarious.  I have been struggling all day, attempting to get bookmark links to work on this site.  After trying just about every plugin I could find, I came across Gregarious.  While NONE of the other plugins would work right out of [...]