CTR500 Cellular Travel Router: close, but no cigar...

so, reading JK on the Run this morning, i found their post on the CTR500 Cellular Travel Router by Cradlepoint and though "SWEET! I WANT!" but, its missing something very important: Battery power. if i am "out and about" in town or somewhere, with my laptop, iPhone, etc, and i am...

SimpleCDN: just got better!

Yesterday i posted about SimpleCDN and talked about the price of their data structure. Any file between 0 and 1mb was charged 1 credit, which works out roughly at $1 (unless you buy in bulk). Well, today i was uploading some files for testing, and noticed i was only getting charged 0.1 credit for small...

Some MotorLoggr news: XMPP, Twitter, OpenID

So, I finally got my SQL server up and running for MotorLoggr . Still nothing there, but if you would like to play with an Alpha version, drop me a mail at motorloggr@gmail.com . Anyway, I have been playing with some cool stuff for the last while, and I though I should post some interesting links. First...

simpleCDN: Exactly what it says on the tin!

I found simpleCDN Today, and i am very interested and a bit bowled over! the idea is simple (hence the name). you upload a file, and your charged for that. and thats it. no monthly charges, no bandwidth charges, no usage charges. NOTHING! well, except the upload in the first place... the Pricing page...

Building a New Media Centre PC, Part 2: AV receiver

So, in the previous article , I mentioned I talked about the PC part of the Media Center (I see the Media Center as more than just the PC, its the whole package). My Current setup has a Yamaha RX-V357 AV receiver and speakers (standard speakers that came with the amp). Now with the Advent of HDMI, and...

MotorLoggr: Log car related costs, easily

There have been a couple of services popping up around the place allowing you to track fuel costs, etc, and it has gotten to a stage that its starting to annoy me. not because the services are there, but because of my own stupidity. Last July, I started coding my own Data Logging website for tracking...

Home Storage Cloud?

Is it posible to build a home cloud storage system with spare storage from machine? and if not, why not? since we all need large amounts of storage for different things, and we dont want our storage "disapearing" any time soon, a distributed file system over multiple machine, all backed up...

Building a new Media Centre PC, Part 1: thinking and main machine

So, a couple of months ago, I replaced my Media Center PC with a Sky HD box, an Apple TV and an XBox 360 . Well, in reality, the XBox 360 was used to connect to the old Media Center, so it wasn't a replacement. Anyway, over the last couple of months I have been missing some of the Media Center features...

Server speed problems, and more bandwidth, comming soon

So, the website has been running slow for the last while. its a mix of it sitting on a machine that is quite overloaded, and has a serious lack of ram. Well, hopefully the problem will be solved soon. I am looking at Dedicated servers from a company called OVH who are managing to offer me a Dedicated...

Cachability, Amazon S3, CDNs, website speed and Proxys

So, one thing that i have noticed over the last couple of months is how slow my blog has become. it may be because the machine that is hosting the blog is running slower than it should be. it could be the data backend. it could (but hopefully isent) the ISA server sitting infront of the network. it could...

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