If you don’t know who Ken Block is you probably won’t find this post on the internet, so it makes no difference, He is a world wide internet sensation for his stunt driving, 2 time US Rally Champion and an overall Smart /Rich guy as one of the founders of DCshoes. This year Ken is moving up in the world of professional motorsports with a full time ride in the WRC (World Rally Championships). In this move he is changing from his trademark Subaru to a Ford and this is where his faithful following seem to have a misguided attachment to Subaru. One glance of Ken’s blog or facebook page...

I have been a T-mobile G1 user since it launched. I am normally not a “PHONE GEEK” in that I dont need to have the newest phone, but my G1 is really starting to slow down with all the normal apps running. I have been doing the math to see what the best option is. Since I am an existing t-mobile customer, this is kind of tricky. I am currently on the 1000 Mins voice Unlimited web/text for 69.99 no contract. OPTIONS: 1. Buy the unsubsidized phone at 529 dollars 2. Cancel my account and get the Subsidized phone for 179. plus 79.99 a month for a lesser plan for a 2 year contract 3.Take...

Getting Acer Launch manager to work with Windows 7, laptop Volume buttons. I recently upgraded my Acer Aspire 5610z to Windows 7 32 bit. Everything worked great except the volume buttons along the side and the quick launch button along the top on of the computer. I know I need the the Launch Manager program from Acer so I downloaded here (Acer Launch Manager) I Unzipped the file and ran setup, but the volume and quick launch buttons still didn’t work. I Quickly found a solution that is detailed below: 1. Download the Launch Manager from Acer’s website. (Acer Launch Manager) 2. Extract...

Hello all I am working on creating a Linux development environment on my Windows 7 machine. I downloaded and Installed Virtualbox. I then downloaded the 9.10 desktop of Ubuntu from http://www.ubuntu.com/ I book the Vbox choosing the ubuntu ISO as the startup medium. Here it is running. Bookmark It Hide Sites

I have been using Pidgin for about a month with no issues. Then all of a sudden It will not connect to my google talk account. I found this link that tells you have to set the advanced tab, and that fixed everything for me. Go to Accounts, choose Edit you Google talk account, > Click on the advanced tab > Enter in the following: Check Force old (port 5223) SSL Un-Checked: Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams Enter: Connect Port: 443 Enter: Connect Server: talk.google.com > click on Proxy tab Proxy type: Use Global Proxy Settings Bookmark It Hide Sites

I have a lot of IM accounts, mainly because my customers use different platforms and then I have my personal accounts as well. What I have been using for a long time was Trillan . It allows you to sing in to all of your accounts from one application. I also use Meebo, Meebo is a web based tool dose the same thing. Things in Trillan have always seems to clunky for me and I could get my 100s o contact sorted the way I wanted. then I found Pidgin. Pidgin is a FREE open source chat client that does the same thing as Trillan, but for me is a much cleaner interface and over all easier to use. The...

So yesterday, I got my official invite to the Google Wave “PREVIEW” they are not calling it beta. Wave is very cool and overall I really like it, It is in Preview so it is a little buggy still and the public waves are a little hard to manage. The real time communication is amazing. I was leaving my feedback about iRacing and while I was still writing someone else was responding to be. I think for the luddites to leave email behind will take some time, but Wave is the future. I have also been building a FreeSwitch Conference Bridge using RackSpace cloud. So far it is flawless but...

I have a new employer and so things have gotten real busy real fast. I have a few projects I am working on, but they will have to be move to the back burner until I get up and running with my new company. I flying to canada today and I will have some down time at night for the next few weeks to work on my projects Bookmark It Hide Sites

As you may have noticed this site received a major update today in the way the site looks and feels. I would appreciate comments and feedback if you’d like the new layout. My goal the layout was to simplify and make reading the site easier. Bookmark It Hide Sites

When I started on this adventure to learn Java and in turn learn android I thought this journey was going to be easy. My assumptions were based on the fact that I had previous programming experience. Granted that experience was well over 10 years ago and involved QBasic, Pascal, and Visual Basic. Java and object-oriented programming are difficult and confusing subjects to master. I am continuing on my journey and I am fully dedicated to teaching myself the skills. The time involved in this endeavor is much greater than I anticipated. My advice to anyone trying to accomplish this task without a...