My bacon recipe
After much trial and error over the last year, I’ve settled on a standard cure for smoked bacon. I started with the smoked bacon recipe from Charcuterie and made my variations from there. I like a sweeter bacon but also want…
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Bad advice in PC Mag’s Ultimate PC Upgrade Guide
Reading the October 2008 issue of PC Magazine and got angry at some crappy advice in their upgrade guide. First issue is they call it the “ultimate” guide on the cover but open the magazine and it’s now called “PC…
Burger Quest: bun
Every burger has to go on something and traditionally that means a bun. Bread is out simply because it gets soggy and you can’t handle the burger anymore, and there is no way to eat a burger other than picking…
External Hard Drive Handling
There are two basic types of external hard drives for sale: those that use 3.5″ hard drives and those that use 2.5″ hard drives. The 3.5″ units typically have an external power supply, multiple connection types (USB, eSATA, Firewire) and…
Atola Technology
I was browsing last week when I came across Partition Find and Mount from Atola Technology: it’s a utility to mount a lost partition as a drive. Nice for botched formats, failed boot sectors and the like. This led me…
HWMonitor
An excellent little utility from the makers of CPUID. Run the single executable to start up HWMonitor and it will connect to all the monitoring hardware in your system and display what it can: temperatures, voltages, fan speeds, etc. Works…
Setting up Windows SteadyState
Found this excellent walk through at Maximum PC for setting up Windows SteadyState. Setting up Windows SteadyState
Griffin FlexGrip Case for iPhone
With it’s large screen and shiny reflexive case the iPhone is a price target for scratches and scrapes. Basically a case becomes a must have item. At first I went searching for a traditional belt clip slide in case but…
SOHO Email
I read a post today about setting up hMailServer on your Windows Home Server (WHS). This reminded me of a lot of comments made during the beta stages of WHS when testers kept asking for a mail server like Exchange…