DIY: FlashRing

Adding a ring flash to your DSLR is a real nice way off adding a soft glow to your portrait images. Problem is that professional ring flashes can cost you a lot of money. DIYPhotography.com has a simple solution if you want to play around with a ring flash but aren’t ready to commit the [...]

DIY: Cool Arduino Clock

People build all sorts of cool things with Arduino. Take the Twittering Doorbell or the Bedazzler but how about something as simple and useful as a clock? And an eye catching one at that! The clock build requires a few simple materials; a laser printer, some LED’s and a few connectors. The instructions are super [...]

How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx And WP Super Cache

Edit: Fixes suggested in the comments have been applied to this howto We recently moved tech.nocr.at over to a bunch of VPSs in order to achieve some decent load balancing and speed. Even though SliceHost isn’t a sponsor, I’d like to give them a quick plug. SliceHost is easily the greatest VPS provider bar none. [...]

FeedJournal: RSS Feeds Like A Newspaper

Not one who cares about the convenience of RSS feeds? Do you really not care about the amount of trees that are saved just by using RSS? Then FeedJournal is just right for you. FeedJournal is a new service that allows you to create a newspaper like pdf from your RSS feeds. The layout looks [...]

Archos TV+ – AppleTV Killer

Archos recently revealed complete specs and images for their highly anticipated AppleTV killer, the Archos TV+. The compact device is just about the same size as the Apple TV, but it packs some much nicer features. The Archos comes with twice the storage for less cost than the Apple TV. The TV+ is also capable [...]

Scripting is baaaad

So, on Monday I reported on why you shouldn’t allow Flash on your network with the article: Nmap 127.0.0.1: Flash Style . Kind of hinting toward how a malicious site could scan your internal network without triggering your firewall, IPS/IDS, or sometimes even a host based firewall/ips. Today, I have a new threat that is [...]