I had an old ‘smart phone’ lying around and I thought about reconnecting it for one single purpose for our business. It would not phone, it would not text, it would not even go to a website and search. It’s only job would be to take a photo, and upload the photo to our private cloud storage. Of course, I…
Category: Technology
Tutorial: How to Make NextCloud/Owncloud Calendar Work on Iphone Ipod
Unlike my typical tutorial formats, this one will be a near copy/paste from an email I sent to a real person so that other real people can connect this to their real brain and emotions: Dear _____, I’m going to forewarn you that this email is dripping with anger/frustration so try to just plunder through it and even try to…
How to Change Default Contact List View in SuiteCRM in Account View
I love suitecrm. Freedom coding built by the community, super useful, and awesome for business. I’m going to start logging some stuff here that will maybe save some other people time, too. In this case, I realized today that I’m logging into my accounts page, scrolling down to ‘contacts’ and seeing absolutely nothing useful except an email address. The default…
Pressure Sensitive Conveyor Labeler Troubleshooting: Backing Paper Snaps
There are many reasons why the paper backing of the labels might break I have discovered. Here is my list (and I may edit this from time to time as I discover more ways label paper can break!): Rips at the peeler plate in a nearly perfect line Plate angle is too harsh: try reducing the angle and making it…
Ubuntu Phone About to Shake Things Up
I’ve been an Ubuntu fan since 2009 now. As soon as I met Ubuntu it was game over for all my desktops, laptops, netbooks, home media servers, etc. There was no competitor who could make a new or existing machine run so quickly and reliably, and without the pain of viruses and continual financial investments to keep it up to…
How to Back up and Move from One Email Server to Another
My goal: Move my email safely from one email service provider to another (IMAP). I was surprised that it wasn’t that easy to find a simple step by step tutorial out there to do this. I hope this tutorial will help someone. If your email account is old, this process may take quite a bit of time, so please allow…
How to Make a Brother Printer and Scanner Work in Ubuntu
EDIT 2020-06-19 Long time no edit! My instructions below still mostly work it seems (which is bad on Brother for not making this more simple – fail, fail fail) I wanted to add a quick note for 18.04 generation Ubuntu friends to consider as you are working through my nasty old messy post below: First, if you are installing a…
Cardboard Electronics by NewFoldr Most Exciting thing in Hardware for a While
Check this out. Just so cool. The hipsters should be all over this, I’m thinking. I like the idea of being able to add your own creativity to something electronic. This is the missing ingredient for our generation. We need to go back to the days when there was a ‘radio shack’ and dad and kid worked together on something…
Are You a Victim of Abusive and Addictive Technology?
An article was forwarded to me this week by someone I know who believes strongly in the importance of ethical technology. He is heavily involved in the Ubuntu project and we all share a desire to see a paradigm shift in the role of technology in our lives from that of a harmful consumable to a helpful benefit. If you…
Do All Tech Writers Suffer from Fear and Creative Paralysis?
Today I was reading a recent article on Forbes website by a supposed ‘contributor’ named Federico Guerrini. Forbes, as you may know, is a popular place for people to go to try to get ‘informed’. His article followed perfectly a kind of template that these ‘tech writers’ for popular media use when discussing Ubuntu. The format, and you may have…