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Hi boys and girls,
Do you remember when Ask The Admin covered a very interesting topic of Free Exchange services? For those who don’t, you can look here, here and sometimes here.
In a nutshell, this article talked about how me and my fiance’ had to plan our wedding and had tons of appointments flying in from [...]
What up AtA?
It’s a beautiful morning out here in New York City. All my servers are purring along this morning nicely and I can actually enjoy my cup of coffee without resorting to gadgets. The Data Center was strangely quiet – no one around. No one restoring, repairing or goofing off.
I guess now is as [...]
The title of this question here is a little misleading because you can use this little web app to serve lots of stuff besides quotes, like random ads or words of wisdom. Get your geek on and swap out scripts and images galore!Originally we used the free RandomQuote ASP generator to feed our geeky quotes [...]
I was a hard core Netscape user before the days of FireFox and before that I was all about IE4 . (Sorry for the re-run but Kayla didn’t let us sleep this weekend!) So I have realized change is good and you live and you learn. So when I heard about Flock, I decided to [...]
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite?
No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software!
Either which [...]
This question made me go “huh?”
Then I thought about it a little and found a FireFox extension that does just that!
Yeah we know that you don’t have time to read ALL the Blogs that you want to! At last check my RSS reader had over 300 feeds. We found a little FireFox extension that made [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Commodore here bringing you another installment of geeky goodness.
Every once in a while an application comes along that simply becomes a staple in your data diet. A requiem for your software library that just seems to always be useful, especially if you follow the advice and antics of The Admin here [...]
My beta invitation came through a little while ago (WE HAVE MORE! 4/10/08) and I couldn’t wait to fire up the fox and give her a shot. I gave my first Aviary online application a spin and all I can say is WOW!
The application AtA got to beta test today (we have 5 beta invites [...]
Commodore 64 here to report on the next big splash on the scene. First some history.
If any geeks out there remember a time when it was actually a plus for things to run in a browser – along came Macromedia with its FLASHy browser plugin that seemed to work consistently everywhere and broke the boundaries [...]
Hey boys and girls!
Have you ever been in a situation where you wished you could sync calendars with somebody who is seemingly unconnected? On top of that, you wished that somehow, by some magical force, those calendars can sync automatically, wirelessly and invisibly; involving no further effort beyond the initial configuration, and that this calendar [...]
I would like to monitor event logs on multiple windows machines – maybe ping them every so often?
I used to use something called Emon but it seems pretty outdated. I looked at bigBrother but it seems too expensive.
Do you have a solution?
Have you heard of VMWare??
If you are game then keep on [...]
For those of you out there still living in the dark ages, and still using Telnet on Windows because you haven’t found a more viable alternative (You know who you are) We have some good news for you!
Maybe you haven’t decided to switch to a more secure solution because you use Windows Servers and Windows [...]
Hey Kiddies,
It’s time for some more time-saving, hassle killing, good, clean, free, fun. I work in a corporate environment, and lots of times, there are people who suffer from serious RTFM errors. Those people are prime candidates for the “Spell it out for me” award. This nifty little proggy, called MWSnap (named after it’s creator [...]
The title of this question here is a little misleading because you can use this little web app to serve lots of stuff besides quotes like random ads or words of wisdom. Get your geek on and swap out scripts and images galore!Originally we used the free RandomQuote ASP generator to feed our geeky quotes [...]
Okay, I have been politely asked by Karl to bring a little bit of Mac/Apple love to this blog. While I think this may just be part of his devious plot to get a Apple Air for review, I have agreed to oblige. So here it is my first Ask the Admin’s [...]
We did this piece on Mosio a while back and since then they have grown and we have grown to love them. Did we mention that all of the AtA guys are addicted to the Mosio? Read through our humorous rants and then check out a quick interview with Mosio creator Jay Sachdev. He tells [...]
One of my pet peeves is people with an antivirus that is not up to date. Seriously now, why even have antivirus if you are not keeping it up to date?
For those of you out there that don’t have your antivirus up to date because you are too cheap to renew your license, don’t fret! [...]
Hello Boys and Girls,
Can you imagine a world where your voicemails are automagically transcribed by a robot and sent to your email inbox?
How would you like being able to read your voicemails instead of calling in for them?
Commodore 64 back again after a short hiatus for the holidays and a whole lot of winter fun [...]
Have you ever wanted to create a shortcut on your desktop to disable your screensaver or eject your cd-rom?
You have seen it done and now you have some use for it? Don’t fret young Admin! No need to muss and fuss here is a light weight program that needs no installation: Tooler.
It’s only 50kb [...]
It started on October 16th when I read a Boing-Boing post about Google Image Labeler. It warned me about how addictive it is but I mean really who would think that:
You would want to help Google and add labels to their images.
You could easily spend HOURS on the site.
You have more fun mocking other players [...]
Hello everyone!
I am a new guest writer here at AskTheAdmin.com and thought that it would be a good time to introduce myself. But since nobody cares about that, I’ll get straight to the post. (edit: First post and already with the aTa sense of humor)
The widget that I’m going to talk about allowed me to [...]
If we were in the entertainment industry we would be lusting after an Oscar, Emmy or some other crap like that. But sadly I just get a paycheck and the occasional virtual pat on the back. Oh wait thats great … How about showing some AtA love and get us nominated for a Bloggie?
Begin rant: [...]
Have you ever heard the saying – the best thing since sliced bread? Well how about one better with some toast?
That’s burnt toast – a CD/DVD burning suite from our good friends at ROXIO. We had a contest for the PC side now we want to show some Mac love so, Mac users it [...]
Does anyone else remember lusting after a small video camera in the 80’s? How about an 80’s show called Small Wonder?
No? Damn young whiper-snappers…
Next thing you will tell me you never played Maniac Mansion! Well RCA brings us this slim practical video camera with the same name as that 80’s show we [...]
After a week out of the office at my Mac OsX server training I am totally swamped. Throw in holiday shopping, a new baby and AtA… Whoa boy!
So Sunday’s post will be a quick roundup and excerpts from my two newest posts on MakeUseOf and a couple of AtA faves.
I demoed and reviewed Mint.com. [...]
There sure is! hField Technologies’ Wi-Fire is a compact high-performance USB Wi-Fi Adapter for Mac and PC that extends the Wi-Fi range upwards of 1,000 feet. Being a college student, I am blessed with a blanketed campus, offering a strong Wi-Fi signal wherever I go, right? …. Well, wrong. Dreaded dead spots exist and, [...]
In honor of my second Mac certification course today I will be featuring a Mac Slash Pc question. Marky Mark needs to be able to attach a PC hard drive with NTFS partitions and transfer the data to their mac (where we will be connecting the drives). In the end we want to see [...]
The Admin gets LOTS of packages and some are easier to open then others. Who am I kidding? They are all ridiculously hard to open!
I got my review OpenIT in the mail today to do all my un-boxing bidding. Guess what? It was sealed in fricking plastic. I need one of these OpenIt’s to open [...]
IBM Lotus Notes is one of those Slashdot topics that polarizes opinion into Peace, Love or War. I’ve worked with Lotus Notes since it’s third release and host a Domino Blog (http://www.LeadershipByNumbers.com). I’m in the Peace camp and with the latest release, Notes Domino 8 (ND8), I think the Linux community may have found true [...]
I know, I know you have heard it time and time again “This magic doo-hickey will automagically make your cell phone work where it once could not.”
It’s probably right up their with get rich quick schemes and increasing your web sites traffic a hundred times over for free.
We have used those stick on strips in [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
We’ve had the honor of meeting up with the guys over at Gelaskins. Their products were one of the more popular products at the CES pre-show and Digital-Life Show, mainly because of the sexy designs they use for their Gelaskins. Really wicked stuff. But there’s more to Gelaskins than meets the eye. [...]
So, you have come to the right place to search for advice on what to get that geek in your life for the holiday season.
Read on, because we have compiled a list of what we salivate over bought ourselves want.
I don’t care if you are celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus (for the [...]
So we have been spoiled for a while now in the Infiniti FX35 and all its bluetooth and geeky goodness. But before that we were getting around in a Jaguar X-type sans bluetooth (worst car ever!) and this little doo-dad from Parrot would have turned our ride into bluetooth heaven.
This guy lets you use you [...]
This was sent in by one of AtA’s faithful readers, Dan. We all know an Admins job is never done and time is a commodity but Dan was nice enough to send us this review. 600 bucks seems to go a lot further than it used to laptop wise. If your willing to look into [...]
We Swore off touch screens a while back but this SCH-I760 is a real pleasure. Everything we have been getting to review recently has been really cool! I don’t know if its just in a good mood or the lack of sleep but this Samsung Windows Mobile 6 Pro with slide out keyboard is sweet.
We [...]
Hi boys and girls,
Do you remember when Ask The Admin covered a very interesting topic of Free Exchange services? For those who don’t, you can look here, here and sometimes here.
In a nutshell, this article talked about how me and my fiance’ had to plan our wedding and had tons of appointments flying in from [...]
So there you are at Starbucks sipping on your latte, and surfing on their incredibly high priced wi-fi with your brand new Alienware laptop thinking to yourself, “Self! This is a mighty good latte!”.A few minutes later, you slip into a latte induced coma (Work with me here.)
After about an hour or two you [...]
Mozilla released Beta 1 of Firefox 3.0 a few days ago, so I thought it was about time I tried out the latest and greatest from the guys at Mozilla. Grab it here if you haven’t yet, but be warned, it’s only meant for testing, and shouldn’t be used if you require a stable browser.
I’ve [...]
This is definitely a sweet looking PC.
Dell One
This is the way a home desktop PC should look.
It’s a little pricey, but it is in line, price wise, as the iMacs and the other Windows based all-in- ones that have hit the market.Edit by the AdmiN: Hey I know, I know we used the word sexy [...]
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is your friendly Commodore 64 here to report on yet another useful, tech-improving, free service that is bound to improve any nerd’s life fo sho.
This new service, which has solved a long standing problem, in my view, with send/receive, hates attachments, crappy, slow, sluggish, snap-crackle, pop3 email technology. The software [...]
This question made me go “huh?”
Then I thought about it a little and found a FireFox extension that does just that!
Yeah we know that you don’t have time to read ALL the Blogs that you want to! At last check my RSS reader had over 300 feeds. We found a little FireFox extension that made [...]
The Admin and Commodore 64 attended the CES International 2008 Press Preview last night. We were on a mission to find new gizmos and gadgets for our upcoming post
“It’s A Geeky Christmas! What to get the geek in your life for the holidays.”We searched high and low (mostly near the fancy finger foods and [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Throughout history, science has dissected the inner working of every race of man. We’ve disassembled soldiers, warriors, policemen, firemen, ninjas, samurais, and thanks to shows like Discovery’s “Dirty Jobs”, we’ve gotten an intimate look at their day to day. But what about the inner mind workings of today’s Nerd? We are today’s [...]
So sometimes the Admin feels a little more like Dr. Ruth or Dear Abbey (Edit: Does she still exist?) then The Admin… So when things get a little strange I point people to FunAdvice.com Thats right I get questions about midget sex, how to keep to keep your girl from cheating and even the [...]
We came across BloggingZoom (referred to hereafter as BZ) on Courtney Tuttle’s Internet marketing blog, while we were investigating some SEO topics. And all I can say is we like it a lot. There aren’t that many people on the site yet and I think they did something like 1500 uniques yesterday – but this [...]
I love 7Zip! I mentioned many moons ago that I have recently completely switched from using winRAR to the absolutely free 7Zip in Windows.
I love 7Zip so much that I wanted to get it for Linux as well. The Linux port for 7Zip is called P7Zip and unfortunately it is all command line baby. The [...]
So get this one PCWorld does a lot of laptop testing and they have concluded that The Macbook Pro runs Vista better then any other machine!
The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year–or for that matter, ever–is a Mac. [...]
I was a hard core Netscape user before the days of FireFox and before that I was all about IE4 . So I have realized change is good and you live and you learn. So when I heard about Flock, I decided to give it a go. For you Face-bookers. Flickr’ers and Bloggers you can [...]
The contest is still going until next Friday – so leave a comment why you should be our winner in this Roxio sponsored contest!
Your new laptop or desktop probably already came with built in software for burning CD’s and DVD’s. So why should you go out and cop the newest burning software and drop your [...]
So there we were on the scene the other night. AtA chilling with Philips as they were showing Fuji Film’s new Z10fd cameras on their beautiful Ambilight flat panel displays. Because the new camera’s line has so many vibrant colors it was a really good fit with the Ambilight.
Why do I feel like I’m stuck [...]
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