Product reviews and ther technologies like firewalls, VoIP, Skype, Hardware Comparisons and other how-tos
We often need the SMTP email configuration for different services and are tired of searching all over the internet for them. Here is a list of email server configurations from services you might use (in alphabetic order) APPLE MAIL SERVER SETTINGS Incoming Server: imap.mail.me.com Incoming Port: IMAP 993 Outgoing Server: Read more…
If you are a Windows administrator dealing with the Junos command line requirements of a Juniper network switch can be daunting. In particular the EX2300 and EX3400 switches have a peculiarity in which neither of them have enough memory to complete a firmware upgrade. We demonstrate how to make more Read more…
If you have a Juniper switch that is up for sale or being scrapped, it should be factory reset. We assume you know nothing and show you which cable you need, what software you need and what commands to run: Connect your computer to your Juniper switches console port (on Read more…
If you are an Windows admin that needs to periodically deal with network gear, you may be overwhelmed by the complexity of the Juniper firmware upgrade process. We have the video below that goes through the entire process, including how to source the firmware. Below that video are all of Read more…
We have been using Virtualdub to stabalize video and make changes to other aspects like compression for more than a decade now and we rarely have errors that do not have obvious solutions. Today, however, our stabalization errored out in Virtual dub with the error: vdffvideosource – decodeframe – discontinuity Read more…
In 2020 we compared several video stabiliztion tools including Filmora and NCH Videopad and settled on NCH Videopad as the best solution. 1: Free Video Stabilization with NCH Videopad: A few days ago we revisited the stabilization options as we had more video to correct and we found that NCH Read more…
We recently sourced an Nvidia Quadro P1000 half height video card to install in our small form factor (SFF) Dell Optiplex 5070. Here we explain what the big differences are between the P600, P1000, P2000, P4000 and P6000 and then show how to change the plate from full height to Read more…
It is often promoted the VPN’s are the great saviour of privacy. However, most people really don’t understand what a VPN is doing. For home users, VPN’s (Virtual Private Network’s) are just private tunnels through the internet that let you APPEAR to be at in a different city. After you Read more…
Recently we created a video explaining and demonstrating how to use How To Animate Old Photos Into Movies For Free using MyHeritage.com‘s artificial intelligence system. We did this using their free 14 day trial and now we need to cancel that trial so we don’t have to pay $125 for Read more…
If you have problems with your battery, it is quite common for the keyboard to be stuck to the display of a Microsoft Surface Book 1. This is because the mechanism to detach the keyboard from the screen requires power. Fortunately there is a simple way to manually force the Read more…
Most people have heard of Samsung Motion Photo and Apple Live Photo in which the camera of your mobile phone takes a few pictures and snapping them together to make a 1 second movie; this is not that. This is taking old photos (paper or digital) that are flat, two Read more…
Holoporation is something that blows people away when they see that it is no longer science fiction, but to explain it we need some brief background on Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR). Here is the video version of this article: What is Virtual Reality Read more…
Put simply two factor authentication is a requirement to prove who you are twice, before being allowed access. The most common use of two factor authentication with your bank because you have two factors: Your bank – debit – credit card is something you HAVE Your PIN number is something Read more…
Microsoft Xbox Velocity Architecture is a new hardware and software platform to make the XBox Series X today and PC’s in the near future run dramatically faster using commodity components. There are four building blocks of Velocity Architecture which are easy to understand. Here is our video explanation of the Read more…
.webp is a graphic format that is yet another attempt to replace .jpg as the king of graphics. Google invented .webp and it has all of the features you would want in a graphic format: .webp supports transparencies, like .PNG .webp supports annimations like .GIF .webp is tight – it Read more…
We recently needed to replace a WordPress theme and found that the theme we had chosen did not allow us to add a slider to the homepage. We needed to know how to add a Smart Slider to a WordPress home page when the theme doesn’t support it in the free Read more…