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A Connected Life: Hard drives die. Are you ready for that? Here's how I am.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011. Hard drives die. Are you ready for that? Here's how I am. I needed a way to backup both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux computers. After spending some time researching backup programs, I decided instead of using one program, I am using a couple different ones. I first gave serious consideration to CrashPlan. And I will use it if my current setup doesn't work in the long term. These are things that I think of and my reason for straight file backup. A backup to all those backups. Looks l...
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A Connected Life: Easy way to make Chrome even faster
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Easy way to make Chrome even faster. When I was playing around in Chrome's. Settings one day, I noticed the Omnibox setting and was excited about it. Pages now load before I even finish typing the urls or search terms. Here's how to enable it:. May 2, 2011 at 9:36 AM. May 2, 2011 at 3:16 PM. May 2, 2011 at 4:03 PM. Thanks for the suggestion; I myself prefer using Chrome and find it to be a faster and better browser experience compared to Firefox and Internet Explorer. Howev...
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A Connected Life: May 2011
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Best Default Browser for Mobile Devices. For my Android phone, the default browser is the slowest of any of the browsers that I have used. Maybe it's because I have an old Samsung Moment. Running Android 2.1. But I have had a much better browsing experience with alternative browsers. For the past month I've used the Miren browser. As my default browser. I love it's full screen viewing and relatively quick speed. After trying Dolphin HD. I wasn't particularly impressed. I dual boot ...
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A Connected Life: Solid State Drive: The Most Valuable Upgrade I've Ever Done
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Sunday, May 8, 2011. Solid State Drive: The Most Valuable Upgrade I've Ever Done. A few months ago, I replaced the 500 GB 5400 rpm drive on my laptop. With a 64 GB Solid State Drive. In order to make this hard drive change, I had to make a fundamental shift with how I stored my files so that very little was stored locally. I mention how I use an Ubuntu desktop with 4 TB of storage to do this in a previous post. Boot and program load times. May 9, 2011 at 6:49 AM. May 9, 2011 at 5:48 PM. At the start of t...
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A Connected Life: Ubuntu 11.04 Works Now
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Sunday, April 10, 2011. Ubuntu 11.04 Works Now. My main disappointment with Ubuntu 11.04 has been resolved. The latest round of updates has fixed the issues with my video card not being supported. I no longer have black bars everywhere where menus should be. I can actually see the Unity menu and use the computer:. Now it's time to explore the new version of Ubuntu! April 10, 2011 at 9:11 PM. Is Unity Menu the dock-like thing on the left? April 10, 2011 at 9:31 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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A Connected Life: Best Default Browser for Mobile Devices
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Best Default Browser for Mobile Devices. For my Android phone, the default browser is the slowest of any of the browsers that I have used. Maybe it's because I have an old Samsung Moment. Running Android 2.1. But I have had a much better browsing experience with alternative browsers. For the past month I've used the Miren browser. As my default browser. I love it's full screen viewing and relatively quick speed. After trying Dolphin HD. I wasn't particularly impressed. Ars Technica...
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A Connected Life: I've tried 'em all - Reviews of Solavei, Straight Talk, Simple Mobile, and Net 10
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013. I've tried 'em all - Reviews of Solavei, Straight Talk, Simple Mobile, and Net 10. I set out to save money on my monthly cell phone bill and I did just that. Since I dumped my 2 year contract with Sprint, I have been switching non-contract carriers every month thanks to my unlocked smartphone. Every phone carrier I have tried has no contract and comes with unlimited data, texting and talking. These companies pay either AT&T or T-Mobile for the use of their networks. I had some t...
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A Connected Life: Good Bye Amahi, Hello Ubuntu and Tonido
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Sunday, April 10, 2011. Good Bye Amahi, Hello Ubuntu and Tonido. For some time now, I have been running an Amahi Home Server. On one of the desktops that I built. I was initially very excited about the Fedora based home server, but ran into many problems. It ran great when I had one hard drive, but when I bought an SSD and two 2 TB drives I ran into trouble. I followed the directions on how to add a second hard drive. Great things about Amahi. Was the best thing about Amahi. I could stream all of my ...
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A Connected Life: DD-WRT and Getting the Man Cave up to Speed
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012. DD-WRT and Getting the Man Cave up to Speed. I recently converted my crummy, old, detached garage into a man cave and found that my Linksys. In my house had a low signal going to the man cave. I tried moving the router from a low spot up to the top of a high bookshelf and that made things a little better, but I still was losing signal with some of my devices. I thought about buying a 150 foot Cat6 ethernet cable. I knew that I could convert a regular router with DD-WRT. Brita On...
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A Connected Life: June 2013
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013. I've tried 'em all - Reviews of Solavei, Straight Talk, Simple Mobile, and Net 10. I set out to save money on my monthly cell phone bill and I did just that. Since I dumped my 2 year contract with Sprint, I have been switching non-contract carriers every month thanks to my unlocked smartphone. Every phone carrier I have tried has no contract and comes with unlimited data, texting and talking. These companies pay either AT&T or T-Mobile for the use of their networks. I had some t...
