Here is my story of the day… I woke up at 4:30 am and arrived at the Fairview Apple Store at 5:20 am hoping to get a good position in line for the iPhone 4. People gradually started showing up after 6:30 am and lined up neatly in front of the storefront. With great anticipation, [...]
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Jul 31
iPhone 4 is avaiable in Canada! or maybe not… [UPDATED]
On July 30th, the iPhone 4 was officially released in Canada! I know many friends of mine actually drove down to the US to buy an unlocked phone… Either way, the country is filled with anticipation for the new iPhone and its allegedly crippled antenna system. I called many stores only to find out the [...]
Jul 21
Drupal Tip: Lightbox pop-up on page load
Just like I was, a lot people have been seeking around the web for an easy way of invoking a lightbox as a page loads. Examples including http://www.bram.us/demo/projects/autofirelightbox/ uses javascript to trigger the lightbox. However, scripts like this one does not work with Drupal’s Lightbox 2 module. Here is what I used to accomplish this [...]
Jul 21
iOS 4 + iPhone 3G (multitasking and jailbreaking) [UPDATED]
iOS 4 Apple recently released its latest build of iOS (formerly iPhoneOS) version 4. This is perhaps the most significantly improved iOS version to date. It adds multi-tasking, Folders, Spell check, enhanced Spotlight search, enhanced Mail app (multiple Exchange accounts and unified inbox), enhanced Contacts app and the ability to edit Playlists in iPod. Here [...]
Jun 16
Drupal and its serious e-commerce muscle
It has been about a month since my last post, but the site is getting some real nice traffic since the posts about my “Drobo Alternative“. So thank you all for the support. I’ve been working my rear off these days… apart from my day job I am working on two other sites. Both are [...]
May 01
ZFS powered NAS, ultimate alternative to Drobo + Droboshare [Complete Guide]
I apologize to everyone for the looooonnnggg wait for this post. I have swapped out a few hardware components as well as OS for this NAS build. It wasn’t all pretty… and at times it felt frustrating… However, my NAS box and I have lived to tell the story. In this post I will walk [...]
Mar 24
drobo is no good… so I’m building my own NAS [updated]
After a few months work with the drobo and trying to give it NAS capabilities via TonidoPlug. I got it to work, and I’m getting same performance as the droboshare for half the cost. HOWEVER… I’m getting 3-5mb/s Write, and 3-20mb/s Read. The speed fluctuation is related to the limited CPU and I/O resource on [...]