Jason L. Froebe – Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

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Category Archives: Gadgets

Drobo Mini

by Jason L Froebe on April 4, 2013, no comments

I really want a Drobo Mini

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DROBO: Nice to see after moving 1TB of movies to an Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 RAID 5 Samba share :)

by Jason L Froebe on October 18, 2012, one comment

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How to convert videos/movies for the VTech Innotab using FFMPEG (SOLVED)

by Jason L Froebe on October 3, 2012, no comments

The VTech Innotab is a young children’s tablet for learning. When I picked up two of them from the local Target, we installed the six free games but was rather disappointed with the video capabilities listed in the manual: File Type: AVI Resolution: 480 x 272 Video Codec: MJPEG Video Bit rate: 2400kbps Frame rate: [...]

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Western Digital’s Firmware 1.04.10 blocks PlayOn Media Server (workaround)

by Jason L Froebe on November 28, 2010, 4 comments

Western Digital released firmware upgrade 1.04.10 yesterday (November 27th) for the Western Digital WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player and Western Digital WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player.  This caused the media players (little boxes that hook up to the tv) to no longer see some network media servers such as Playon from [...]

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Going Green in California – Why can’t I go green in Chicago?

by Jason L Froebe on January 6, 2009, no comments

Two of my best friends, Ryan & Anna Lubke, just went completely green.  No, not like the Incredible Hulk, but as in going off of the electric grid in California.  Due to silly laws in Chicago, my family can’t do much to go green. Going Green Thursday Jan 01, 2009 I’m not one to normally [...]

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