I recently picked up a YPG-235 off Craigslist. One of the reasons I sought it out was for the “lesson mode” (or “Yamaha Education Suite”) where it helps you learn songs by displaying the notes and pausing the song for you until you hit the notes. You can do the same with a

The OBDLink SX is an inexpensive USB OBDII scantool marketed by ScanTool.net. It’s sold as a Windows-only scantool and comes packaged with some very simple OBDII software. Not much exists on MacOS X for CAN monitoring, but I was still curious if I could access my car through my Mac.

Hard drive encrypted using FileVault? Lost your password?  You can’t get your data back, but you can make the MacBook usable again: Start the MacBook in Target Disk Mode by holding down ‘t’ Connect the MacBook to another computer using a Thunderbolt Cable. You will be prompted for the drive’s

About two weeks ago I noticed my wifi performance at home went to garbage. When I first got the router I was getting 20-30Mbps but now I was lucky to get 250kbps. TCP connections were constantly retrying and frequently timing out. Something changed. Figuring my neighbors might have set up

So you’ve got a PC without a CD-ROM drive. (Err, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, whatever). Or you bought a new PC motherboard without realizing it lacks an IDE port for your antiquated DVD player. Then you bought some software on physical media like it was the 90’s. (Perhaps you got a great

The New York Times has a great article on the fight over banning GMO crops on the big island in Hawaii. It covers the science, the pseudoscience and the hysteria over what GMO food supplies might do to people and the environment. This prompted me to revisit a blog post

I have a custom kernel on my linux machine (that I apparently did not install correctly) so when I went to use VirtualBox I got an error about DKMS not being ready. The docs say I needed to update my “virtualbox-ose-dkms” package to the latest version but when I did

“Coin” is a swipe/credit/reward card emulator that’s tied to your smartphone. You load it up with all of your cards so that presumably you only have to carry the Coin instead of a stack of plastic. I want to love this device for its cleverness, but I hate that a