http://www.ryangroom.com A place in cyberspace to call my own. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:56:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ It sounds like an old country song, but getting an easy backup strategy on a home network can be difficult. I find the backup software that comes with Vista and Windows 2008 server junk. My home network consists of Windows desktops, Windows servers, OS X and one Linux box. This weekend I messed ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/08/25/why-is-backing-up-so-hard-to-do/ When traveling in New Hampshire this summer I was pleasantly surprised at how many places offered free Wi-Fi. Even the KOA campground I stayed at had excellent reception to my campsite even though my mobile phone service was very poor (as it should be being in the middle of the ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/08/19/free-wireless-internet-in-new-hampshire/ First there was the Commodore Amiga, my all time favorite computer. Then I was drawn into the world of Windows. I really do like Vista x64 on a kick butt computer. But now I want to do iPhone development. So to do that I got to do the development on ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/07/31/my-mac-page/ I have decided to create a space that links to all the various web sites I participate in. This site will have links to my Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and all the other sites I have data on. One of the reasons is the new iPhone 2.0 has many new features to ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/07/26/my-new-space/