Category Archives: Interesting

How to Dropbox your Firefox/Thunderbird Profiles

I use Dropbox religiously. I own a laptop, two personal desktops, and an internet cafe full of computers, not to mention I’m constantly on the go with my phone. Since you can’t selectively sync folders on your computer with Dropbox, I’ve moved my entire My Documents folder to the Dropbox. You can move your My [...]

Dropbox is Amazing

I’m almost floating in the cloud. I wrote earlier about ditching my laptop and I just found another awesome app that does the file syncing I’ve been longing for.
It’s called Dropbox, and it’s amazing. Essentially Dropbox allows one to create a special folder on their hard drive which will sync anything in there with whatever [...]

New Open-Mesh Routers

A few days ago my shipment of Open-Mesh routers arrived! They’re super small and really cool.
Here are a bunch of pictures of me opening them.
The setup was really simple, just like the Meraki routers. Basically you need to plug in on of the repeaters to an internet and power connection for 5 minutes so it [...]

Free Hugs Campaign

I’m sitting in my internet cafe with my good friend, Rob Davy. We’re working on a new website project to do with equestrian classified ads.
For the last few hours we’ve watched a group of people across the street in front of Starbucks holding up “free hugs” posters. I’ve seen this before around town and at [...]

Joomla! is Cool

Update: Joomla sucks balls.
I’m reading up on Joomla! It’s a seriously kick-ass open-source application. I’m a bit miffed that I haven’t taken a closer look at it until now.
The reason I’m reading up on Joomla is because I accepted the IT Director’s position for the Alberta School of Business Students Association (BSA). It’s not a [...]