Category: Tech
SpotRemote: A Spotify remote for iPhone
I’m a regular user of Apple’s iTunes Remote application for iPhone. It lets me listen to my music upstairs while controlling my iTunes downstairs (I have speakers upstairs wired to the downstairs media center). Now that I’m subscribing to Spotify and using...
How to Find Trial Downloads of Legacy Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite Software
This link is also hard to find but you may need it if you’ve reinstalled OS X or bought a new Mac. Here is the link to Adobe’s legacy download page for old versions of Photoshop and Creative Suite. You’ll...
How to Download the Apple Aperture 3.x Trial
If you purchased Aperture before it was integrated into AppStore and are having trouble installing it on a new machine or re-installing it, you can download the Aperture 3.1 trial from Apple here. You’ll still need your Aperture activation key to...
IKEA Standing Desk for $109
Inspired by Lifehacker’s Standing Desk’s on the Cheap, I put together this IKEA standing desk solution for $109. It took me about an hour to assemble. In the picture, I’m using a Goldtouch Go Travel Keyboard but I’ve switched to...
Making WordPress Faster with Apache, Varnish and W3 Total Cache on Amazon AWS EC2 with CloudFront CDN
Update: There is now a much more complete tutorial to installing Varnish with W3 Total Cache and Amazon CloudFront here. [teaser]This post will help you speed up and optimize your WordPress blog on Amazon AWS EC2 with Apache, Varnish and...
Great Template for a Web-based Online Resume (CV)
Update: I’ve updated my resume and am not actively using this template at this time. I’ve been using QBKL’s Bold Resume/CV Template to create a web-based online version of my own resume. The template costs $8 and requires knowledge of...
Is it on Netflix?
Can I Stream It is a useful search engine for finding whether a movie or TV show is streaming on Netflix or for sale on iTunes or Amazon’s Instant Video. They also have a handy popular streaming summary for Netflix.