TechKnack

I bought this Duke-style Xbox controller off of eBay. When I got it, the cord was frayed just above the stress reliever. Recently, it just quit working. Turned out the +5V power cord inside had broken completely. Fortunately, I was able to rearrange some things and get it in near-perfect shape. Check out [...]

I’ve just finished a little project that I’ve been working a few days on: replacing a form’s dropdown field (such as a State or Country field) with a more usable text field with auto-suggest. Jakob Nielson, a “usability expert”, has posted a couple of articles (Does User Annoyance Matter? and Drop-Down Menus: Use [...]

Recently, I’ve reached the point, like probably many bloggers have, where I’ve outgrown Blogger.
Don’t get me wrong, Blogger was great to use as I began my blogging journey. A freely-hosted blog is probably the best way to test the waters, so you don’t spend $10 on a domain and who knows how much on [...]

Say what?
First, some background on DNS; feel free to skip this paragraph if you know what it is . “Domain Name System” is a distributed system for translating web addresses (Google.com) to IP addresses (64.233.187.99). You type “Google.com” into your browser, the browser (through the computer) sends that address to the DNS, [...]

Do you have a wireless notebook with Samba shares that contain copyrighted materials? For example, your music collection? But you only want to share it with your Xbox Media Center while you’re on the home network — sharing anywhere else could result in copyright infringement. It’s a hassle to disable your shares [...]