http://www.ryangroom.com A place in cyberspace to call my own. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:31:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Introduction I store all my photos on a shared network drive. This shared network drive is on Windows Home Server (WHS) because it keeps my all photos automatically on two hard discs. Also I backup WHS onto an external hard drive plus I also have 20 GIGs of space I use ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2010/01/01/adobe-photoshop-watch-folders-network-share-issue/ Introduction A few weeks ago I wiped my Windows XP 64-bit box and installed Windows Home Server (WHS) on it. I have been running Windows XP 64-bit as my home server for a year but the features in WHS made it a compelling upgrade. In the next few weeks I am ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2009/12/30/windows-home-server-saves-the-day/ I was excited to download VS 2010 Beta 2 and start playing with .NET 4.0, which is the real first new CLR since .NET 2.0. I discovered that VS 2010 finally supports dual monitors. It does not support dual monitors but multiple monitors! So like all geeks would do I ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2009/11/09/vs-2010-and-multi-monitors/ Since Windows NT 3.1 I have enjoyed installing beta versions of Microsoft's operating systems, call me crazy. The latest beta I have installed is Windows 7 32-bit. I installed in on my old Dell XPS Gamer laptop that is over 4+ years old. It has a Pentium 4 (3.4) 1 Gig ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2009/01/09/windows-7-beta-and-dell-xps-laptop-gen-1/ I have been interested in photography for a long time. I got my first Spiderman camera when I was six. I still have the pictures I took being 6 and 7 years old in a photo album. I learned early on that taking pictures was expensive (especially for a youngin’) ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2009/01/02/beginnings-of-my-trek-into-digital-photography/ <rant> Some days I work hard and realize I did not get anything done. Emails, cell phone, twitter, blogs, IM, door bells, they are all one constant interruption. Our generation has gotten to much in the habit of the of "Now! - and get me someone while I am waiting!".  I ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/11/05/buried-by-digital-noise/ A few times in your career you get to be involved in a project that will stay your memory as a special project. The One Million Acts of Green (OMAOG) campaign by CBC (sponsored by Cisco) is one of those projects. Before OMAOG my favorite project was the CETS project with ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/10/26/one-million-acts-of-green/ MacAppetite (Sean and Ryan) has released (and mega excited) its first iPhone app to Apple's iPhone AppStore. If you are a delicious user and an iPhone user I say this is a must have application for your iPhone. It stores your delicious bookmarks on your iPhone, you can search your ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/09/21/red-delicious/ Having all my Windows machines backing up successfully now it was time to get my Macbook to be backed up. Looking at Apple's Time Machine (OS X included backup software) it looked like it would only backup to Apple's Time Capsule (Apple's Wireless Hard Drive), but searching the Internet I ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/09/01/how-to-have-apples-time-machine-use-a-windows-share/ Synergy is one of the best open source utilities I have used in a long time. It allows you to share a single keyboard and mouse with multiple computer, including between Windows, Mac and Linux. What you do is set it up and a "master" computer with the keyboard and mouse ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/08/26/synergy-and-tablet-pc/