Friday, April 26, 2013

A list of the coolest things that I've ever done with a computer

These are the ones that come to mind

Year
Deed
1985
Heard a computer play “La Cucaracha”
1997
1997
Sent an email
Installed Winamp
2001
Created a Video Compact Disc (VCD)
2001

2002
Hooked up a computer to a television to play digital video discs (DVDs)
Bought a digital camera
2005

Built a 1 TB hard drive using four 250GB drives, setup as a Raid 0
2006

Shared a computer’s Ethernet connection over Bluetooth to a Sony T637 phone
2006
Converted videos to play on a Sony W810i Walkman phone
2009

Put a new operating system on a HTC Shadow Windows Mobile phone
2009
Copied Xbox saved games to an Xbox 360
2010
Put a new operating system on a Sony W810i Walkman phone
2010
Rooted an LG Optimus V Android phone
Routers
2011

Put DD-WRT and Tomato onto a router
2011
Used Tomato for port forwarding
2011

Setup Remote Potato to access Windows Media Center remotely
2011
Used Tomato as a Print Server
2011

Used Tomato to set up a Universal Serial Bus (USB) File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site
2013

Used Tomato to Wake On LAN (WOL) computers
2013

Used Tomato to update a dyndns.com Internet protocol (IP) address automatically
2011


Used a thumb drive and Clonezilla to bit for bit copy a hard drive (as pointed out by my wife: just like in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
2012
2013
Installed dual boot operating systems on a Kindle Fire
2013


Used Tasker to disable the blinding "100% charged" green light emitting diode (LED) notification on a HTC EvoV Android phone





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