Eclipse 2017: One Nation Under The Sun

by Darth Maul | Sep 8, 2017 | Space | 0 comments

On Aug. 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse made its way from Oregon to South Carolina — the first time such a large swath of the United States was in the path of total darkness since 1918. Millions of people across the country paused together to stare up at the sky. – NPR

Jumping to the First or Last Item in Finder

by Darth Maul | May 5, 2021 | MacOS | 0 Comments

When you have a Finder window open, and in a folder with several files, you can scroll and select, which is great if it’s a small list of files. Or if it’s a long list or maybe we’re faster using our keyboards, you can hit Option+Up Arrow or Option+Down Arrow to jump...

Stop Notifications in iOS While Driving

by Darth Maul | November 13, 2016 | iPhone | 0 Comments

This can be very annoying and dangerous. It's not the fact that you are using the Waze, Google Maps or the Here app to get from point A to point B. No different than using a Garmin GPS... the problem when using these GPS apps on an iPhone is that the little...

Chappie’s Hack Scene

by Darth Maul | August 23, 2017 | Music, Film, Robotics | 0 Comments

The ending scene of 2015’s Chappie.

Atlas Does Parkour

by Darth Maul | October 15, 2018 | Robotics | 0 Comments

That’s right Boston Dynamics, keep feeding abilities into your robots – scary cool.

Bagel: The World’s Smartest Tape Measure

by Darth Maul | February 8, 2017 | Architecture, Electronics, Cool Things | 0 Comments

Innovating the way we measure.

Chappie on Overwatch

by Darth Maul | August 26, 2016 | Gaming | 0 Comments

When I got introduced to Overwatch this summer by my brother and sister I was skeptic. After playing online once - I was hooked. Weapon of choice became Bastion. One of several characters that were designed as mechs. I have a thing for mechs and started imagining...

Optical Drive Disappears In Windows 7

by Darth Maul | November 25, 2016 | Windows | 0 Comments

One of my friends came to me with a problem... "Why did my DVD drive disappear in windows 7?" He could eject the drive using the button, insert a dvd... but that was it... nothing was prompting him to autoplay. I checked and verified that his dvd drive was not visible...

Fluid Width Video For YouTube

by Darth Maul | November 14, 2016 | Web Development | 0 Comments

My problem... getting an embedded YouTube video to automatically resize according to container sizes. This is how you would post the embeded video: <div class="videoWrapper">  <iframe width="560" height="349"...

Comments In Excel Not Appearing

by Darth Maul | February 13, 2020 | Software | 0 Comments

I think it’s a complete ripoff only to include the Comments feature in Office 365 and not in the Retail License.

Disk Management in Windows Vista

by Darth Maul | January 9, 2017 | Windows | 0 Comments

Well, I had the rare opportunity to troubleshoot a computer running Windows Vista and one of the first things I needed to do was access the Disk Management utility which I could not find directly through search. That's because it's tucked inside Computer Management....

Eclipse 2017: One Nation Under The Sun

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