4th of July BBQ – The Best BBQ Ribs Ever

I think I’ll grill some sausage today – yesterday was the big cookout for my family.  My son has to work Monday afternoon & evening, so we had our cookout early.

Three slabs of babyback ribs, dusted with kosher salt and fine black pepper, seared on the 6-burner Weber Summit propane grill (total about 14 minutes with lots of movement and turning, with smoke, too), then off to one side of the grill while two burners on the other end applied indirect heat for another 70 minutes.

One of those two burners was under the smoker box, applying some flame to the wild cherry chunks that I used for flavoring.  No sauce.  Just meat, salt, pepper, heat and smoke.

These were some of the best ribs I’ve ever had, let alone cooked, and I’ve cooked ribs for a lot of years…

A long time ago, I became a coffee snob courtesy of the home-roasting coffee from Sweet Maria’s.  I can tolerate coffee “out” but seldom order it in restaurants.  I’ve  become a rib snob, too – similarly, I’ll occasionally order ribs at a restaurant, but I find that most restaurants concentrate on “falling off the bone” and not flavor.  Ugh.

New Focus Theme from StudioPress

I’ve upgraded to the new Focus theme from StudioPress for The Next Windows.

Focus uses the Genesis Theme Framework, which can be purchased separately.

I chose to buy the ProPack, which gives me all of StudioPress’ themes, including new ones as they’re released, plus support via their web forums.

Genesis has been a great change for my Terry’s Computer Tips web site, since it lets me concentrate on content and not HTML.

iPhone Tethering Finally

AT&T finally made iPhone tethering available for subscribers to it’s wireless service, once Apple’s iPhone operating system iOS4 was released. What’s tethering? That’s hooking your iPhone (or other wireless device) to your notebook computer so you can use the iPhone’s data service as a wireless modem for your computer. One “problem” – previous iPhone users [...]

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iPhone Tethering — Waiting on AT&T

I sure could have used “tethering” on my iPhone last Wednesday eveninng. I rushed home from the office so I could watch LSU play Texas in the College World Series final game. As soon as I parked, my neigbor popped out of her house to warn me that the power was off. We’ve had no [...]

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Digital Video Recorder or Home Theater PC?

Subscriber Bill DePierri wrote recently to ask about using a PC to record television. I’m already doing that with my home theater pc, which Bill has seen: Terry: We recently got a Cox DVR. It is pretty clunky with little flexibility. This got me to thinking about your comments about your PC-based DVR’s, especially since [...]

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HTPC Software

Rather than focus on the standard features of SageTV, which have been covered in many reviews and on the SageTV site, I’ll show some of the modifications I like. One features I really like about SageTV is the ability to use different menu layouts and even additional functions. Don’t get me wrong, the SageTV program [...]

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Home Theater PC – the hardware

Simply, it’s standard PC, including an AMD Athlon XP 2500+, an Abit AN-7 motherboard, a cheap video card with S-Video Out, hard drives, DVD drive and three Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 TV encoding cards and one PVR-150.. My HTPC case case is a standard Antec tower case. This is not designed for the HTPC service. Tired [...]

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Home Theater PC

After running multiple video cassette recorders for years, drooling over the TiVo® advertisements, and hearing the praise heaped on TiVo by relatives, I decided to build my own version — a Home Theater PC (HTPC). Why, you might ask? Well, it goes like this: The Fun of building an HTPC. The Challenge. Flexibility. Storage space. [...]

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Casino Royale Review

Sean Connery personified James Bond, until he stretched Bond into late middle age. Timothy Dalton, well, the less said, the better. Roger Moore was a shot back to the old Bond, but just seemed to rely too much on contrivance, gadgets and visual jokes. Pierce Brosnan was a marvel in the classic Bond style, until [...]

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The Hummingbird, part 3

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And, a few more pictures of the hummingbird we fed after Hurricane Katrina… Tired of old antivirus softwarethat slows your PC to a crawl?   VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware Try High-Performance VIPREFree for 15 daysMulti-computer DiscountsMulti-year DiscountsUnlimited Home Site Licenseavailable for all your home PC’s

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