Category: Technology

HummingBoard Looks Like a Raspberry Pi but Packs in More Power

July 7, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

A new computer called the “HummingBoard” takes on the same basic shape as the Raspberry Pi but uses a more powerful processor and supports more operating systems. SolidRun, which also makes the CuBox-i computer we wrote about, just started selling the HummingBoard in several configurations ranging from $45 to $100, not including the price of a power adapter and Micro SD card. “The HummingBoard allows you to run many open source operating systems such as Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch, as well as Android and XBMC,” SolidRun says. “With its core technology based on SolidRun’s state-of-the-art Micro System on a Module (MicroSOM), it has ready-to-use OS images, and its open hardware comes with full schematics and layout. Best of …

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â€œHummingBoardâ€ looks like a Raspberry Pi but packs in more power

Homemade Speakers

July 6, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I had the awesome opportunity of taking the EE423 Speaker Design class offered at USC while I was going to school there. The class is taught by engineers from JBL, with some help from people like Tom Holman (the TH in THX guy!), who happens to be a researcher at USC. I learned a lot about speaker design, and ended up with a pretty awesome pair of bookshelf monitor speakers. The speakers use Vifa TC14SG49-04 5.5â€³ midwoofers and Peerless 53 NDT Neodymium 1â€³ tweeters. The inital boxes were prototyped in cardboard. Despite looking absolutely terrible, using 3 layers of sandwiched cardboard actually works extremely well in terms of audio response. Here you can see a diagram showing the 200-10 khz response (tweeter is thin line, midwoofer is thicker…

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Homemade Speakers

Run a Router on Hyper-V – Naked ALM

July 6, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I want to run a router on Hyper-V so that I can run many VM’s, each with internet access, on corporate and hotel networks. Microsoft touts Routing and Remote Access but there is no way I will go there. First it’s a total pain to setup and run. Second I need to run a whole Windows Server just to have basic DHCP and internet access. Overkill much! There must be a better way. The problem is that on most networks that I connect to there is some sort of one-MAC-one-IP rule. I am often onsite at companies on their Guest Wi-Fi and in hotel’s. I am not sure how it is implemented but if there is a pay-wall…

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Run a router on Hyper-V – Naked ALM

SEO 101: On-Page Optimization

July 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Let’s face it. The foundation of anything (house, structure, or marketing campaign) is the single most important piece of the overall plan. Build on a weak foundation, and you can expect a collapse. The same goes for SEO. Even the best off-page strategy won’t do much if the foundational on-page strategy is not properly in place. Every internet marketer knows and understands this, but I constantly see shoddy on-page optimization when reviewing websites. After recently reviewing two websites with awful on-page SEO work, I was driven to write a detailed guide for new or experienced SEOs who want to effectively optimize their site on-page â€“ the right way. To make this article as short and concise as possible, I have …

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SEO 101: On-Page Optimization

The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything

July 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Getty Encryption is hard. When NSA leaker Edward Snowden wanted to communicate with journalist Glenn Greenwald via encrypted email, Greenwald couldn’t figure out the venerable crypto program PGP even after Snowden made a 12-minute tutorial video. Nadim Kobeissi wants to bulldoze that steep learning curve. At the HOPE hacker conference in New York later this month he’ll release a beta version of an all-purpose file encryption program called miniLock, a free and open-source browser plugin designed to let even Luddites encrypt and decrypt files with practically uncrackable cryptographic protection in seconds. “The tagline is that this is file encryption that does more with less,” says Kobeissi, a 23-year old coder, activist and security consultant. It’s super simple…

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The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything