Guided by the Stars: My Walk with iOptron

Back in October 2020, my astrophotography journey began with something simple and sentimental: a homemade barn door tracker, lovingly built by my father-in-law. I still have it today and yes, I still love it! That little tracker launched me into a deep obsession with...

How AI Helped Me Choose the Best Telescope

Preface Ok here I am again debating my next telescope, and let me tell you it's been no picnic trying to choose the right scope. As a technical driven website I am trying to weigh all the Pros and Cons of each vendor technically and pick the right scope for...

Did QHYCCD just kill ZWO ASIAIR?

So I am always looking for new stuff and happened to run into Dylan's video on QUARCS. I joined up on Discord and tested out the image but it didn't work on my ASIAIR modded RPi5 but it did work on the stock ASAIR Pro. The big deal here is QUARCS will run from a...
Do Not Be Afraid

Do Not Be Afraid

A very short Teaching from Richard Rohr shared from The Work Of People. He has such thoughtfulness and a calm way of explaining things, very much worth the watch! https://www.theworkofthepeople.com/do-not-be-afraid

Samsung Galaxy Victory

Samsung Galaxy Victory

Well, it's time for a new phone and a damn sexy one at that! Currently, I am working on rooting the phone by cheating the update process using an OTA update.zip to allow for root. Once I get it rooted this way it will allow me to rip the stock recovery.img and also...

Vmobi is born…

Vmobi is born…

So from MTDEV to HTCDEV to now Vmobi. I have created a new developer site to integrate all the users from Android Forums that work on the Virgin Mobile phones to all assist one another. Since Virgin Mobile phones do not get a lot of love from XDA I thought it was time...

So you want to P2V with SCVVM using an OEM License?

So you want to P2V with SCVVM using an OEM License?

Well, this week I had a pain in the keister with SCVVM 2012 and ripping a physical Dell server with OEM Windows Server 2008 R2 to virtual. The problem is when I ripped then server I could not get Windows to activate to save my life. I tried and tried, but kept...

Spiritual Awakening

Spiritual Awakening

I normally post about technology, ways to geek out, shaving stuff or something of the sort. Recently I have been going through a spiritual awakening and opening my eyes and heart to God. Every morning I have been taking time to pray in meditation for 15 minutes before...

HTC Evo V 4G

HTC Evo V 4G

I am at it once again. First, it was the Motorola Triumph, now it's on to the HTC Evo V 4G. So far I have CM10 working darn nice on the phone but it still has some bugs I need to work out. The big plus, of course, is the fact the camera works. While the 3D camera may...

MTDEV is born

MTDEV is born

First CM7, then CM9 and now CM10. It's been a busy few months of coding and developing and now with collaboration from other developers, we have Team MTDEV. What started as a fun little project for me on the side has turned into a Team of Developers. We are made up of...

CM7 g60 style

CM7 g60 style

So from tinkering with Linux to now being a full-on developer?!?!? Well, it didn't happen overnight. In January I got excited about working on the Ice Cream Sandwich project and started learning all about the AOSP and dove into working on the Motorola Triumph. I...

Ubuntu we meet again

Ubuntu we meet again

So in my many years of working in the computer field, I have played with it all. Windows, Apple, Unix, Linux you name it. So once again I and Ubuntu embrace. The current project I am working on is recompiling Ice Cream Sandwich on the Motorola Triumph. So far I have...