Category: Software & Apps

Setting up a Plex server with a massive media library, say 10TB or more, isn't just about dumping files onto a drive and calling it a day. I learned that the hard way, like many…

The Private Server Imperative Lately, my kids and their friends have been deep into Minecraft and, more recently, Palworld. Like many parents, I found myself getting requests for a dedicated server – one where their…

I needed to run a couple of Android-specific utilities on my main Windows 11 workstation recently. These weren't complex games or demanding applications, just some monitoring tools and a specific messaging app that only had…

The Daily Grind Just Got a Bit SmootherFor years, I put up with the default command prompt and PowerShell windows. You know the ones: fixed size, clunky copy-paste, one tab per window, and an absolute…

Bringing PC Games to the Big Screen I had a stack of fantastic PC games I wanted to play from the comfort of my living room sofa, but my powerful gaming rig lives stubbornly in…

After decades in this game, I've seen more "solutions" for personal knowledge management than I care to count. My own approach used to be a mess: a mix of text files scattered across project folders,…

Stop paying monthly subscriptions for "premium" screen recording software that just wraps FFMPEG in a shiny UI. I got tired of explaining this to the juniors on my team every time they needed to document…

If I had a dollar for every time a client told me "the button is still blue" after I deployed a fix, I'd have retired to a vineyard in Tuscany by now. Browsers are aggressively…