Hi guys , im loving my cybook except for the finicky nature of two things, the included usb cable but mostly , the process of adding fonts, I've been adding them to the internal cybook memory in the "Fonts" folder while plugged into my imac, this has worked a few times but three times now ...

A logic analyzer records bus communications between two chips. If you’ve ever had a problem getting two chips to talk, or wanted to reverse engineer a protocol, a logic analyzer is the tool you need to spy on the bus. The Logic is a USB logic analyzer with eight channels and sampling rates up ...

By Guest Blogger, Mary Schmidt, Marketing Troubleshooter Over a glass of vino the other night, a fellow businesswoman did an eye-rolling riff on “Housewives with Hobbies.�  Now - before I go on – let me state for the record I have nothing against housewives (or stay-at-home Moms), hobbies or ...

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed In some cases, you may be connected to the Intranet - meaning you need a set of tools to help you troubleshoot problems, or see a problem before you know it exists. PacketTrap’s pt360 allows you to flow results between tools, save netwo...

Previously posted here at Grand Stream Dreams: Partition and Disk Management: Part I – Dancing with Diskpart Partition and Disk Management: Part II – Free and Useful Tools In “Part I – Dancing with Diskpart� I was working with some Dell systems and in using GParted noted some strange thing...

In my previous post Partition and Disk Management: Part I – Dancing with Diskpart, I mentioned that I prefer to use Microsoft’s DiskPart Command-Line Options as my primary tool. I do this for a number of reasons, As I use WinPE 2.0 boot disks for primary system maintenance it is always at hand, ...

Sometimes I find myself on a technical issue and end up puzzling it out. The aftermath finds me overwhelmed with linkage.  Sometimes due to the interrelatedness of the issues, I struggle a bit to get it all organized in a logical manner. I’m having to “puntâ€� this time and do another multi...

By Guest Blogger, Mary Schmidt, Marketing Troubleshooter  Sure, we're going through tough times in the U.S., but in any times small biz owners are often their own worst enemies.  Sooo, time for a little tough love.  Here are real-life quotes that make 'toonis  awfully  attractive:   "I don't ...

Nothing like a real-world challenge to lead me to burn through a few hours of research and followup. It all started with this post by Dwight Silverman over at the Tech Blog: Anarchy, indeed: Help recover files from a crashed drive Long story short, a business system crashed, some system recovery was...

The hard drive in my girlfriend's iBook (12" G4 late 2004) died, or at least that's what I think happened. I want to cover all my bases and I need a little advice on best practices. A few months ago it would make a gnarly clicking sound, but only intermittently. We backed up all her data, figur...