http://techbutter.com Would you eat your toast without butter? Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:01:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the previous blog entry I wrote about Aqua Connect Terminal Server for Mac OS X. While I think it's a great application for an organization that can afford to implement it, I cannot. I'm sure there are others out there wanting to implement terminal server functionality but can't afford ... http://techbutter.com/2009/09/10/mac-os-x-terminal-server-using-vine-server/ A few years ago I fell in love with Windows Terminal Services Server. Then I learned about the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) and fell in love with it even more because I could bring old computers to life by booting them over the network with a brand new, full-featured, ... http://techbutter.com/2009/08/05/aqua-connect-terminal-server-for-mac-os-x/ Last year I purchased the SMC WiFi Phone for Skype and was extremely disappointed. Haunted by it would probably be a better phrase. A reader of this blog by the name of Wayne gifted the Belkin phone to me. Thankfully so, because I was still needing a phone to use ... http://techbutter.com/2008/10/21/belkin-desktop-phone-for-skype/ In my best television announcer voice: "Digital TV has better picture, better sound and more channels!" Unless you've been living under a rock then you have probably heard that a million times by now. If you have been living under a rock then you need to check out the Digital ... http://techbutter.com/2008/07/29/digital-stream-dtx9950/ I have been seeing a lot of articles lately about high dynamic range (HDR) photography. I've always been fascinated by it. I read through a couple of blog entries and decided that I should try it myself. In the past I have said that I couldn't do things like HDR ... http://techbutter.com/2008/06/02/high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography/ A couple of weeks ago my DVD burner decided to kick the bucket. I was wanting to download Fedora 8 and burn it to a DVD so I could install it onto my computer. Unfortunately, that wasn't going to happen. I decided that I would seek out a website that ... http://techbutter.com/2007/11/30/discountlinuxdvdcom/ Since I got this iBook G3 I've been primarily using it for communication (email, instant messaging) and multimedia (audio podcasts and my music collection). Unfortunately, the iBook doesn't have a great deal of power since it is running Tiger which is a bit more resource intensive than OS 9 which ... http://techbutter.com/2007/11/30/mailplane-for-gmail/ Before you begin reading this entry if you would like to watch a video of what I discuss below then scroll to the bottom of this post and download the video or watch it via Vimeo. For a while now I have been using the trial version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. ... http://techbutter.com/2007/11/12/basic-photo-enhancements-with-the-gimp/ A couple of weeks ago my younger brother asked me to buy some songs for him from the iTunes store. So I thought this would be no big deal. Normally I buy, download and burn the songs to a CD and also put them onto his iPod shuffle for him. ... http://techbutter.com/2007/11/01/when-drm-sucks/ The Reason For Purchasing A couple of years ago I had a no-contract cell phone and before then I had a pre-paid cell phone. I got rid of those in 2005. They were simply too expensive. Ever since then I've been using Skype, Gizmo or just using the house land-line to ... http://techbutter.com/2007/10/21/smc-wifi-phone-for-skype-wskp100/