Kurt Hartman

Caught you with the title, didn't I? Chances are, you don't want your business to grow slowly. No, you want fireworks, and a little animated line that shows profits going through the roof. That's all well and good, provided this is your third or fourth successful business. If this is your...

As a Web Developer, I receive a fair amount of unsolicited email. My spam folder doesn't catch all of it, as some of it is not sent by a "bot", but rather by an actual human spammer. Recently though, I received an email that I wasn't sure about. Someone claiming to be...

Ok, so you downloaded Amarok 2. You love the new splash screen, the pretty buttons, and the cleaner user interface. The widgets are a great feature, and you love that your media player is supported. There's just that one problem, and it just happens to be the one huge pain...

Recently, I was charged with the task with editing and authoring a DVD. I recently upgraded my setup to Ubuntu Intrepid (64 bit). Supposedly, there would be at least modest speed gains when it came to encoding various video formats. So, I started off on my task, albeit with a...

Recently, I ran across an interesting problem. My boss was having issues with his brand new BlackBerry Curve. His "Desktop" or the "Home Screen", as RIM likes to call it, was not displaying any applications whatsoever. He had called AT&T to get a "push" problem with his email fixed. They...

The Cloud. Originally, it was just a metaphor for the internet, the area outside of your own network. That was how it appeared on the network diagram during college (and probably still appears, if Cisco has anything to do with it.). The past few years have brought new meaning to...

Barak Obama made an interesting choice recently: To take the oath of office on Abraham Lincoln's bible. This was not an unthoughtful gesture, but rather than a window into how President Obama wants to be viewed. He obviously desires to be seen as a uniter, someone who transcends black and...

As I was sitting here, preparing to write this article, my mind wandered back to the day I accidentally wiped out a Windows installation with a Gutsy Gibbon CD. I thought I was in trouble. I had just knocked out my work documents, including various templates I made, along with...

DVR: The Death of the VHS Remember when your Grandma had you come over, because the light on her VCR was blinking. That clock had to be set with scientific precision. Her "soaps" were coming on, and she had to go the market. Remember the first time she accidentally recorded over...

I Googled and searched forums for ages, and still didn't have all the answers for completing the task that awaited me. I purchased a manufactured home recently, but almost didn't, mainly because of those ugly seams they run up and down the walls of the home. Still, I understood this to...