I was having an issue with my NAS not reconnecting after a restart of my iMac. When it is not reconnected, my backup utility does not run because it can’t see the folders to backup. As I was playing with Mac’s Automator utility, I found a very easy way to create an automated workflow/application that [...]
Read more →After seeing a video on Youtube about adding closet lighting based on a magnetic switch, I tried it out myself. I needed the following items: SMD Style Reed Switch (NC – Normally Closed) – SuntekStore @ $3.35 LED Strip Lighting – eBay @ $1.47 DC Female Plug Cable - LEDLightsWorld @ $13.50 (5 for $0.90 each and [...]
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Thundercats are back! I haven’t seen any episodes just yet but it looks pretty good. The animation is not like the 80′s cartoons – these days the inspiration comes more from the Japanese anime styles, like GI Joe Renegades. Still, it looks like it could be a good show. It’s available on the Cartoon Network, [...]
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I just discovered one of the cooler services offered by freenas. It allows you to upload torrents right to your NAS box and let the server download the files. This way all my computers can be turned off and the old pc box in my basement is doing the heavy downloads. It’s a pretty ingenious [...]
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I finally finished wall-mounting my 40″ Samsung LCD TV in our bedroom. I also hid the wires behind the wall – luckily the room behind the wall was the walk-in closet. A couple holes later, I was able to fish the wires down. I even added a new electrical outlet just behind the TV, which [...]
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I was in the market to buy a new bigger external hard drive and saw that a lot of them being sold were NAS drives (network attached storage). They are basically external hard drives connected to the network and available to ALL computers within the network. They seemed pretty cool but expensive – a 2TB [...]
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Finally, we’re finished the kitchen backsplash! Although it took a total of 3 days (mainly drying time for the mastic and grout) and my feet were paining afterwards, it looks pretty good. We ended up using a 12″x12″ brick pattern mosaic, built using 2″x4″ ivory tumbled travertine tiles from Home Depot. In total we [...]
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In an effort to practice laying the tiles for our kitchen’s backsplash I made use of some inexpensive 3″ x 6″ (34 with 8 per box) along with some 12″ x 12″ (3) mosaic design tumbled chiaro travertine pieces from Home Depot in the laundry room (total cost of tiles about $48). I only did one [...]
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Apple TV has been redesigned to be small in size but big on entertainment. Rent from the hottest selection of HD movies, plus thousands more. Watch Netflix titles instantly. And stream photos and music from your computer to your widescreen TV. Best of all, Apple TV is just $119.
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