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Just had a power failure, so the mind turns to UPS and backups for all those hubs and routers in the house. Nice to plug in your router and access point as well as any other mission critical things (like computers or home alarms) in. You don’t need an industrial…

To prepare for this Call the Cascade Locks and get a camping area. Find a site with water and electricity. These are a little more, but more convenient. The area that is the overflow for the regatta is not near the toilets and so forth. Want to be in the…

If you have an old iPhone 2G (like Asa and Grace), then you can unlock them even with the latest firmware. Redmond Pie has a guide, but with the old bootrom, you basically Find a custom IPSW that you just use iTunes to install which is nice since it can be…

You can now transfer miles for free between the two programs, so you get to monitor twice as many promotions. And you can link them so you get rewards on both… see thepointsguy.com. The biggest one is to get a free Continental card and then you get 25k miles for…

Or breaks as it is plastic, then you have to get your audio out from the 30-pin Iphone connector. Here are the parts you need: A iPhone connector to 3.5mm plug. I can’t find one that is female So you need a female-to-female connector for 3.5mm like Monocable has for…

These routers do support logging, but you have to mutter strange incantations to the Mac OS X (revealing its Unix roots), then point the Airport Extreme with the Airport Utility to the IP address of your machine…according to Mintel: Change syslogd configuration   # echo “local0.notice /var/log/airport.log” >> /etc/syslog.conf  …

Wow an amazing array of cars are headed to US in 2012 model year so hold off if you can. Clean Fleet reports that the Honda Fit is outselling the Prius in Japan. And is the best selling car. THe fit is much roomier and gets 72 to Prius 77mpg…

Ugh I somehow didn’t get the tines gift card discount in best buy. Somehow didn’t make it through the whole purchase process. But here are some new gizmos and things… 1. Apple AirPlay makes it easy to build music systems. As Macworld points out. How to. Just buy an airport…

Well nothing like doing a quick review of things to get for the geek who has all the cameras he could want 🙂 Canon 500D Close Up Lens. This turns your regular lense into a macro for about $125. A nice step before you go buy a dedicated lense Canon…

You don’t normally see iTunes gift cards discounted, but Best Buy is doing it. 15% off!