The Hiawatha Gets DCC Sound

Fox Valley Models Hiawatha is a DCC ready model that looks great coming down the tracks, but it’s even better when you can HEAR it coming, too! Litchfield Station LLC now offers a pre-programmed SoundTraxx Tsunami decoder specifically for the Hiawatha. See it get installed and tested in the Hiawatha in my original Hiawatha post.

Camroc To Fly Again?

I’m guessing it’s been close to 40 years or more since this vintage Estes Camroc model rocket camera has snapped a photo from on high. Is it up to the challenge 40+ years later? Time to bring it out of retirement and find out! See the progress of this experiment added to my original Camroc posting here.

Tethering With Jailbroken iPhone 4

Now that the U.S. government has given it’s blessing to iPhone jailbreaking, what the heck. My iPad doesn’t have 3G, so it’s time to give it a little 3G love. But beware! It’s not without risk and not without exposing a major security hole in iOS. (more…)

OWC – Your Mac’s Best Friend

I wrote last week about a memory DIMM going bad in my Mac Pro. I purchased four 2GB DIMMs from OWC over two and a half years ago, but, OWC has a lifetime warranty on memory, so it was a simple matter of calling them, getting a replacement DIMM shipped, and I was back to full memory capacity by last Friday. Bravo, OWC! (more…)

Mac Pro Meltdown

Here in the Northeastern U.S. (and other places, I’m sure) it’s been pretty darned hot and pretty darned humid. Today we had a thunderstorm roll through in the early afternoon and our power went out for a couple of minutes. When the power came back on, it killed my Mac. (more…)

Selling Your Old iPhone? Don’t forget…

…to delete your iPhone data for good!