Author Archives: Garrett

iTED released in Apple app store

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Garrett

Finally! It only took 6 days, but Steve & co. approved iTED for the Apple app store. Either I did well, or the process isn’t as nightmarish as everyone makes it out to be. If anyone is interested, you can … Continue reading →

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Announcing: Munkee’s Git Admin

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Garrett

I finally broke down and built a simple git admin web interface. I didn’t want to have to keep paying for more private GitHub repositories when I could (almost) just as easily host my own. I didn’t want to have … Continue reading →

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Announcing: iTED

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Garrett

Earlier this week, I finally released my iTED application for Android OS devices. The iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc) version is still waiting for review with Apple’s app store. You can see more at www.ited.mobi. From the iTED web site: iTED … Continue reading →

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Announcing: TED_PHP

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Garrett

Another set of PHP scripts written for myself that others may be able to take advantage of. From the README introduction: This is a PHP class to hopefully make writing PHP applications to consume “The Energy Detective” (TED) API a … Continue reading →

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Smoothie Recipe

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Garrett

I have received a few requests over the past couple of weeks for the smoothie recipe that I use. To give credit where credit is due, I got the recipe from my coworker, Mike. Here’s how I (we) do it. … Continue reading →

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Announcing: Tarsnap Monitor

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Garrett

It’s really nothing too special other than it’s handy (for me at least), and my first public project on GitHub. However, if you use Tarsnap and love to use stats and/or are excruciatingly paranoid about running out of money on … Continue reading →

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Solar Liquor

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Garrett

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Free Energy Conservation Kit from TVA

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Garrett

It took a month or two for it to come in the mail, but we finally received our free energy conservation kit from TVA. All I did was do an online energy audit. It’s tough to beat free (as in … Continue reading →

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Running Bootcamp using VirtualBox [Updated 2011-08-04 for OS X Lion]

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Garrett

UPDATE (2011-08-04)! If you installed OS X Lion and are having problems with “missing operating system” when you boot your virtual machine, it is because Lion installed a new recovery partition that re-arranged the partition numbering scheme. Replace any references … Continue reading →

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Monitor Servers Behind a Firewall Using Reverse SSH Tunnels (and Cacti)

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Garrett

Wow. What a subject line! It’s a little technical magic, but fairly easy to do. I won’t cover installing Cacti or the SNMP daemon. There are plenty of guides for those. However, guides for creating and using the reverse SSH … Continue reading →

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