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I finally decided to bite the bullet and bought a real NAS for use at home. I decided on the QNAP TS-219P for a number of reasons I'll discuss in the post. Also, I have plenty of screenshots showing the QNAP UI and a couple simple benchmarks comparing the performance to a USB disk attached to an Airport Extreme.

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It's been a while since I posted, but today, I had to figure-out how to make the OS X version of Safari stop opening PDF files inside the browser since that's one of my pet peeves.
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This cool projects aims to take the various FPGA-based arcade platforms and run them on a common piece of hardware, thus letting you play many games and platforms without having tons of equipment sitting around.
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Have you ever thought about how amazing it was when the Apollo space missions actually took someone to the moon considering that they didn't have the fancy technology we have today? This book recounts the design and use of the on-board Apollo digital computers.
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Contrary to the wonderful support I received from Logitech some time ago, the brand new Seagate 1TB FreeAgent drive I just bought exemplifies the worst in support.
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Get in the computer time machine and travel back to the days of a simple computer that's programmed in BASIC and boots in under 1 second. Or, you can buy the Retro Computer System.
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I recently setup several IMAP accounts in Leopard's Mail.app and noticed that when I tried to quit Mail, it would "hang". This seems to be a common problem and I found a fix which may work for you too.
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The Amiga 500 was one of the very popular "non-IBM" choices back in the day thanks to its great selection of games powered by then-cutting-edge graphics chips and incredible stereo sound processors. If you long for the days of the Amiga and have a desire to build a project, this open-source hardware design might just what you need!
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I found this FireFox goodie some time ago and find it immensely handy. However, even though I work around dozens of computer nerds, it seems to be a trick nobody knows about.
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Here's a $60 board and CPU combo that could be useful if you're looking to build a low-powered home network server or web-surfing terminal.
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