Last Friday, I listened to a great podcast where Mike Monteiro and Kaite Gillum of Mule Design interviewed Chris Sacca who explicitly said no one is funding ideas. Today, Indiana University announced a $1.1 million fund to establish the world’s largest student prize for a software or technology business plan. How can my alma mater […]
GoDaddy’s Shared Hosting accounts allow you to have multiple FTP users, but you can only use your primary account for SSH. Today, I wanted to give someone else SSH access without sharing my login because the same credentials you use for SSH also give you access to payment information, domain management, databases, and every other […]
Yesterday, I outlined how to backup your Brightkite check-ins with the Momento iPhone app. Today, I used a more technical method to completely backup all of my check-ins, photos, comments, addresses, and everything else from Brightkite thanks to Martin May’s project on GitHub. If you’re comfortable with Terminal, this will be a breeze. If you […]
I bought an Acer Aspire Easystore H340 Windows Home Server last summer because external hard drives weren’t cutting it anymore, and I wanted something more versatile than a NAS. I struggled to utilize WHS and used it primarily as a dumb dump which is exactly how a NAS would have served me. Finally, after having […]
I don’t have the time or resources to bring all of the ideas I have to life. Instead of forever shelving them on my “someday” list, I thought I’d offer them up so that maybe someone else could develop them. Today’s idea involves Google Maps and IMDB. They both have tons of data just begging […]