Kaotic, Kreation, Design

Apple to buy Barnes & Noble?

Brandon Leon — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:23:54 +0000

BGR has an exclusive scoop from an unproven source that Apple is currently in talks to purchase Barnes & Noble. Apple has a history of passing up opprotunities to acuire compinies when the opprotunity arrises. However I believe this is one they may want to think about. BGR estimates the cost of Barnes & Noble...

Mac App: DVDRemaster

Brandon Leon — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:38:35 +0000

A few months ago I purchased DVD Remaster to rip video from my old DVD’s to copy them onto my iPhone and iPad. I picked it up as part of a bundle and was rather surprised at its usefulness. DVD Remaster is normally $49.99 but for this weekend only for there introduction to the Mac...

Amazon’s new kindle includes Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers.

Brandon Leon — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:39:00 +0000

Okay while it’s not really a new kindle but an ad-supported version of the current version for $25 dollars less. I’m not entirely convinced I agree with this idea at all. I’d rather pay the additional $25 and not be forced to look at ad’s. I might be okay if it was confined to the...

My thoughts on my iPad 2.

Brandon Leon — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:43:04 +0000

I ended up taking a few days off work and wen’t to Disneyland with my family. After which I followed them up north to spend a few days with them. I got my hands on my iPad and while I have to practice a bit more on typing i’m very happy with it. I went...

iPad 2… On the way.

Brandon Leon — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:32:14 +0000

So my birthday is coming up next month and my parents surprised me with the news of an iPad on its way. They live about 5 hours away from me and the unit was shipped to them, I’ll get my hands on it this weekend. And I’ll be sure to write a follow up post...

Nagios check_http

Brandon Leon — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:26:57 +0000

Just a quick and dirty post regarding the Nagios check_http plugin. found a little quirk that kept me scratching my head for some time. I added a new site to my monitoring system and ended up getting a result of HTTP OK – HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily – 0.174 second response time |time=0.17 turned out...

WordPress XSS Vulnerability

Brandon Leon — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:08:51 +0000

If you’re a WordPress blogger be sure to update to the latest 3.0.4 build as soon as possible, While no new features have been fixed a major security hole has been patched. Basicly 3.0.3 allows users to insert comments with malicious code, the 3.0.3 WordPress only sanitizes lowercase HTML allowing a malicious user to pass...

Reset your forgotten iPhone4 SSH password.

Brandon Leon — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:14:19 +0000

Wonderful, I SSH’d to my iPhone 4 this morning to find out I forgot the mobile and root account passwords. Not to worry! We can fix this! Ok this is relatively simple the only problem I ran into was that MobileTerminal crashes under iOS4 so I had to figure out another way to edit the...

Why my next Computer will be a Mac mini.

Brandon Leon — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:11:13 +0000

Currently my two primary computers are my iMac at home and my MacBook for on-the-go computing. Not the MacBook Pro I bought my Aluminum MacBook two months before it was renamed the MacBook Pro. but hardware wise its practically the same thing. I do lots of photography work on my iMac and while its almost 4 years old, it does a wonderful job still. My Macbook and My iMac are pretty...

Amazon Kindle Exchange

Brandon Leon — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:20:30 +0000

My Job has demanded that everyone in my position be CCNA certified, Even went as far as reimbursing us for Cisco Press books to help along the way… Unless you purchased the kindle version as I did. No big deal at least I don’t have to lug large books around. Last night I pulled out my kindle to do...