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31 March 2011 0 Comments

Make your own CR-48! ChromeOS Netbook.

Since Google decided to not send me a ChromeOS CR-48 notebook, I had to make my own! (I still REALLY want a CR-48) The Hardware I picked up a super cheap Acer Aspire One over at Fry’s. Model:  D255E Processor: 1.66GHz dual core Atom Memory: 1GB (upgraded to 2GB for $23 from amazon) All together [...]

7 March 2011 0 Comments

Rooting around in my Nexus S.

Well, It finally happened. My Nexus S was working too perfectly, so I had to go ahead and root it and load a custom ROM. :) Here is a quick little how-to of what I did to make it all work. All files are linked below. This is not a final release of CyanogenMod 7, [...]

7 July 2009 6 Comments

Goodbye AT&T Voicemail, Hello Google Voicemail!

Goodbye AT&T Voicemail, Hello Google Voicemail!

I have been using Google Voice for a couple days, and I think it is time to step it up! I have been looking into ways to more tightly integrate my new Google Voice service in with my phone. There are a couple of key areas to focus on when trying to seamlessly integrate Google [...]

14 March 2009 4 Comments

Home Theater Mac Mini Processor Upgrade

A little background: We used an AppleTV for a while in the living room to serve all of our media. Well, long story short, the AppleTV sucked one too many times, so in the closet it went, and out came the Mac Mini to take its place on the home theater rack! Problem: The Mac [...]

3 March 2009 0 Comments

Twittering in Mexico!

10 months. 6500 tweets. Addicted. Yes. Ok, now that I have admitted it and it’s out in the open, lets move on. :) My girlfriend and I went on a vacation to Mexico for 8 days. It was a fantastic trip!! I had been gathering up gear that I was going to need, during which [...]

27 October 2008 4 Comments

Electronics Project #1

Recently I have been feeling the need to build something tactile. I create and work on projects everyday on the computer and online, but nothing analog. I have been very interested lately in building and programming robots. A large part of the robot is the code you write to control the robot, but the part [...]