GFI Backup – Free Backup Software
We all know we should do it. We have all said it enough times. Backup backup and backup. There is no better way to ensure that all of your pictures or documents will carry on if you don’t back them up. Well you really have no excuse now do you. GFI Software just launched a [...]
Super Tiny Keyboard
This super tiny keyboard would be perfect for iPhone users if the iPhone actually had a USB port. Maybe someone could come up with a Apple 30-pin connector to USB adapter so that some of us could actually be productive on our iPhones. Enough with my rant, on to the product. The “Super Tiny Keyboard” [...]
How To: Prevent Airplane Seats From Reclining
Picture this: you’re sitting in coach on a discount airline (you know us bloggers are starving artists) when you decide to pull out your laptop to get some work done only to have the person in front of you decide to recline their seat and smash your screen into your hands. If this has ever [...]
Zip Drives Back – Lord Help Us
Come on, admit it. You at some point had a ZIP drive, we all did. I can still remember transferring files via sneaker-net with my beloved ZIP disks in hands. 100 Megs, unheard of you could copy all of your stuff and still have room for even more stuff. Then came the click of death, [...]
ZipZip USB Key
I remember a time when having a USB key was bleeding edge, when having a bulky thumb drive that held 32 or 64 MB of data was cool. I also remember having to also carry a drivers disk just incase I ran into a machine with an older operating system that wouldn’t recognize it. Now-a-days [...]
Custom Table has Electric Plugs Right in it.
Forget all of those “Tidy you wire’s up” how-to’s you’ve seen. You know which one’s I’m talking about, use zip ties and punch board to tame your cables. This custom Electric Table by Broberg & Ridderstale of Stockholm is your ticket, your entire desk is your outlet. You devices can be plugged in right where [...]
Altoids Robot
I’m still on my Altoids kick. I must have purchased 100′s of Altoids tins this past year and probably have 30 or 40 ziplock freezer bags full of Altoids mints (It’s such a shame to toss them out. Here’s a great little project to do using an Altoids tin. An Altoids robot that will avoid [...]
Software awards scam
UK based professional and shareware author Andy Brice was surprised at how well shareware sites were rating one of his apps and some of the apps that were in the same class so he ran an experiment. He wrote a text file and turned it into an .exe file, which of course would never run. [...]
How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx And WP Super Cache
By Frank on Aug 11, 2008 · 33 Comments
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. [...]
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